What worrying trend scares you if it keeps repeating itself in the future?
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Just read a scary statistic…
Antisemitic hate crimes in London are up 1350%(!) from the year before. Ade Adelekan, the deputy assistant commissioner, described the rise as “significant” and said Islamophobic offences in London were up 140% over the same period, from 42 in 2022 to 103. The trend started when the latest war between Israel and Hamas broke out this October.
What worrying trend scares you if it keeps repeating itself in the future?
It’s an ENORMOUS rise in hateful incidents. And all of that, why, what for? Because of the actions of a country half a continent away from England… the same is seen almost anywhere in the world where there is a large immigrant population and any sort of local Jewish population, no matter how tiny — it’s targetted, unfairly, because they’re all associated with everything Israel does. And it’s ridiculous because I know some European Jews who are quite critical of Israel.
Hell, I even had a history teacher in high school who denounced Israel as “a failed late stage experiment in colonialism”… and he was a Jewish man. He had ZERO affinity with the country that claims to be ‘the home of the Jewish people’, and yet, if he were to walk outside today, he is at risk of being beaten up for his ethnic background because he’s rather obviously Jewish, and he was not a man ashamed of that part of himself, he wore a necklace with the star of David and did so proudly. He just didn’t like Israel, the state, and did not want to be associated with it. Wouldn’t stop thugs from beating him up, however, just for his appearance alone.
It’s just ridiculous to me. The hatred of people. It’s a worrying trend, precisely because of how it mimicks the same trends, witnessed a century ago in Europe. Many of the same targets, too. Some things never really change.