Hatred of the Jewish people is on the rise in the UK (and in some European countries). In a recent research experiment, a reporter put on a yarmulke (a traditional Jewish skull cap) and walked down streets in Manchester and Bradford. Within minutes he was being publicly insulted and event spat at.
The headlines which of the Daily Mail report read:
We believe that what is transpiring before our eyes is an unholy alliance. On the one side are mainly Pakistani immigrants to the UK settling in ghettoes in cities like Manchester and Bradford whilst continuing to live within the traditional doctrines and dictats of Islam. On the other side--far removed from the ghettoes--is the Leftist (now UK mainstream) ideology which frames Israel (and, therefore, the world-wide global conspiracy of Zionism) as being the relentless oppressor of Palestinians, in particular, and Middle Eastern peoples in general. (Yes, we know it's a troglodyte's position, owned by the impeccably ignorant, but there you go.)EXCLUSIVE: 'Fight the Jewish scum!' Shocking anti-Semitism on streets of BRITAIN as Jewish journalist is spat at, abused and even stalked... and the same happens in Copenhagen
- Journalist donned traditional Jewish head covering 'kippah' to test reaction
- It took one minute for first abuse to be hurled on Britain's streets
- Spat at in Manchester and boy walking with father called out 'Jew'
- 'Stalked' by a man in Bradford for five minutes as he took photos
- Prime Minister David Cameron told MailOnline: 'There are no excuses for the shocking anti-Semitism revealed in this report'
- Same test in Copenhagen saw a similar taunts to 'Jewish man'
- But Stockholm and Berlin walkabouts went without any incident
In Britain, Leftist ideology also frames the Islamic ghettoes as being populated by victims, the have-nots, the disenfranchised, the exploited and the oppressed. The Left must stand with them and help facilitate the struggle against oppression within Britain itself. Both groups, now joined at the hip in group-think, hate the Jewish people and Israel as the unjust monster with its foot on the neck of deprived and exploited peoples.
The Left has made anti-semitism and hatred of the Jewish people fashionable and respectable once again in the UK.
Ghetto sentiments have clearly found positive sympathy amongst the Commentariat, the chattering classes, and the elites because anti-semitism is now out of the closet, in the open and in the public square, no longer underground, no longer hidden. Hatred of the Jews is on the streets. Jonathan Kalmus writes:
I took the inspiration from the viral videos of Israeli journalist Zvika Klein, who filmed himself being threatened on the streets of Paris, and Muslim Hamdy Mahisen, who filmed himself getting abuse in Milan. Zvika walked in Paris for 10 hours, Hamdy in Milan for five. It took me just one minute. One minute of walking one single, busy major street in Manchester before abuse was flung at me.In 25 minutes on that one single street in Longsight, I was spat at by one man and called 'a Jew' multiple times by passers by, even by a young boy walking with his father.
I was just walking in the street testing the effect of being clearly identifiable as a Jew by wearing a small traditional Jewish head covering called a kippah.
Disgusting: He is spat at and subjected to sneering looks as he walks the streets of Manchester
The elites are rushing to condemn, when now confronted by the evidence. A local body politician expressed his horror at what had been revealed. He went on to establish his "street cred" and rejected such intolerance. In doing so, he revealed himself as part of the problem:David Cameron today hit out at the 'shocking' discrimination filmed in Manchester and Bradford. The Prime Minister, speaking to MailOnline, said: ‘There are no excuses for the shocking anti-Semitism revealed in this report. ‘The idea that Jewish people feel unsafe again in Europe strikes at the heart of everything we stand for. ‘We must fight anti-Semitism with everything we have got and make sure Britain remains a country that our Jewish communities are proud to call home.’
Test: Kalmus wears a traditional Jewish 'kippah' head covering to test public reaction on streets of Bradford and Manchester
Labour leader Ed Miliband told MailOnline: ‘Any act of anti-Semitism on our streets brings shame on those who demonstrate hatred and intolerance towards each other. We need to renew our vigilance and ensure every family of every faith can be secure in our country. We must defend loud and clear and with defiance and determination the values we believe in: tolerance, diversity, freedom of speech and freedom of faith.’
A spokesman for the Board of Deputies of British Jews, said: 'Many who are visibly Jewish do suffer this kind of abuse and anti-Semitism and figures from the Community Security Trust (CST) indicate that these kinds of incidents are on the increase. The fact incidents like this take place of that nature still takes place does not surprise us. The frequency with which they took place – he experienced 10 in an hour’s walking – that is worrying,' the spokesman said.'It suggest lots of these types of incidents maybe going unreported.’
In Bradford the situation was more shameful. It took 13 minutes, during which I was stalked by a man who repeatedly took pictures of me. He followed me on foot for five minutes and thirty seconds according to my footage.There was a shout of 'you Jew' at me as I crossed the road to Bradford City Park. Minutes later a man turned his head and yelled 'fight the Jewish scum' just behind my back. Some time later three youths shouted at me across a street repeatedly, 'You're a Jew, not a Muslim...Jew, Jew, Jew run! 'I was prepared to walk for hours and expected to get nothing on camera.
On Manchester's curry mile, a haven of mixed cultures and skin colour, it took two-and-half-minutes for a young lad on a bike to ride up to me and shout, 'You're a Jew' in my face. I was left speechless that anti-Semitism is so obvious.
Why did I pick Bradford? For a simple reason. Last summer during the height of another Gaza conflict between Israel and Palestinians, 5,000 people, predominantly young Muslim men, gathered for a mass rally in Bradford City Park. The city's MP, George Galloway, spoke while flanked by two butch men wearing T-shirts emblazoned 'Palestine's army you are not alone'. Mr Galloway has repeated on many, many occasions that his message and political struggle is with Israel and Israelis, not Jews. Despite that, statistics show that bringing the Middle East's struggles onto the streets of Britain has a direct effect on how people treat Jews.
No one could accuse me of targeting Muslim neighbourhoods to provoke a reaction. This was the centre of an ordinary English city and I was minding my own business.No one could accuse me of wearing something provocative or political. A Jewish person or any peaceful person walking in a British street anywhere, let alone a city centre, should be welcome.
Manchester's deputy leader said there is 'no place' for anti-Semitism in his city after hearing about the results of the experiment. Councillor Bernard Priest spoke out against the horrific comments and actions of some of the city's residents during Jonathan Kalmus' walkabout in Manchester. 'These incidents are not acceptable and have no place in our diverse and thriving city,' he told MailOnline.This quotation is revealing. It explains why the Left is so self-accommodating of extremists and the violent (provided they fit the frame of being downtrodden, poor, disadvantaged, etc.) Firstly, there is the inflation of something called "hate crime" to include just about every public dispute over any cultural practice. "'Hate crime can take many forms – from anti-Semitism and Islamaphobia to homophobia or attacks on disabled people – but whoever the victim is, it is always despicable and destructive," the deputy mayor intones.
'Hate crime can take many forms – from anti-Semitism and Islamaphobia to homophobia or attacks on disabled people – but whoever the victim is, it is always despicable and destructive. 'Manchester is home to a huge number of different cultures, we have a long history of celebrating this diversity and the vast majority of our residents have respect and tolerance for people from different backgrounds.'
By elevating the issue to the generic and beginning to wage war on the general, the elites can justify ignoring of the elephant in their room. The issue is not Islamic hatred of the Jewish people and the Jewish religion, but "hate crimes". This artful deflection is akin to ignoring an invading army on the beaches whilst pontificating grandly on the need to oppose violence in all its forms--such as opposing the invading army. To oppose the invading army would itself represent totally unacceptable and destructive and despicable violence.
To state baldly and vigorously that one totally rejects Female Genital Mutilation as a gross evil would be labelled as hate speech--despicable and destructive alike (don't you know) to the one so mutilated and those who do the mutilation. To state baldly and vigorously that homosexuality is a vile practice and a gross evil would be similarly framed, (unless, of course, you were Pakistani and then it would be protected speech, lest one give offence to another person's cultural values). The local body polly by condemning every critical debate over human cultures and practices as hate speech ends up tolerating everything. He who tolerates everything ultimately bows the knee to the one with the biggest gun. It is an ideology of compliance and servile accommodation. It is the mentality of the slave.
The reality is that this poor excuse for a local body politician allowed all this hatred of and discrimination against Jews to spawn and birth and thrive on his patch. He was so busy tolerating everything that he wilfully chose to ignore what was happening before his eyes--not in secret, but obvious to anyone with the merest modicum of common sense. To claim now that these "incidents are not acceptable and have no place in our diverse and thriving city," is a bit rich when yesterday Councillor Bernard Priest saw no evil and heard no evil.
This is precisely the same self-willed blindness that led local body politicians and police and social workers to be unseeing when gangs of Pakistani men preyed upon young and vulnerable women in towns throughout the UK. They were so busy being tolerant, they suspended all critical faculties and became amoral--except against intolerance and hate-speech, the most egregious and grave of all crimes against humanity.
We believe that underneath all this self-righteous poppycock is the gnawing guilt of being a privileged person which paralyses in the face of evil and makes one unable to criticise or condemn the activities of the "poor". Marxism has always been full of special pleadings and justifications of evil. The end justifies the means, and the poor can do no wrong (until we have absolute power, that is, and then it quickly becomes a very different story.)
Once again the Left plays the role of the willing facilitator of hatred of the Jewish people.
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