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Myra's avatar

This is an upside down world…. Rather than stopping anti-semitism Starmer is pumping money into safety measures for Jewish people? The root cause needs to be tackled!

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Allison's avatar

And named. Nobody important has the guts to say that Islam is infected with anti-Jew hatred and it’s followers are mostly huge anti-Semites. It’s just ignored and they get bolder by the minute.

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LMS2's avatar

And vowed to protect Muslims from the nasty white people angry at their children being systematically attacked...

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Daisy Moses Chief Crackpot's avatar

yep an' Brits are feelin' "taxed" (understandbly) for the £10 million BANDAID "to enhance security at synagogues and Jewish schools, including measures like CCTV, alarms, and floodlights" b/c the deep wound was not treated beforehand an' England is bleeding Joos.... (sad).

Similarly in the USA, too little too late.... I've read howls of protest against DJT's wantin' ta fund efforts to combat anti-semitism, screechin' objections to his tryin' ta put a lid on the university cauldron of anti-jooish scentyment/anti-zionist lava flows--but as it costs taxpayers... this angers them no end. It's called preferential treatmint fer da joos an' they cite it as Trump's bein' Israel's lap dog. Not so, of course but again...BANDAIDS are spendy an' everyone else wants one if they see the box openin' fer another group (dare we say victim? we dare not... fer sure there must then be bandaids fer I-Slam-O-Faux-Be-Ah

In a sense, understandably taxpayers are ticked off both cuz the majority are not jooish an' don't give a damn 'bout protectin' joos (they don't see that the Caliphate'll come for them next). But these same angry taxpayers won't acknowledge that there would'a been ZERO cost to disallow the venom in the first place--cuz teachin' stuff that's untrue an' irrational an' hateful ain't "free speech" (I'm all FOR free speech but "kill da joos" seems to cross that line)....

Where that leaves us? Chews leavin' or yep, in ghettos... England & France will see this soon but it's comin' ta the USA as well.... MANY American Jews are checkin' out Israel an' their options....MANY of us have left our "blue shitties" due ta such anti-jooish scenty-mint an' I-Slam's comin' ta mah own hometown (tho' we recently left): NYC (aka New Yawk SEIZED)

INDEED the root cause has ta be tackled an' soons' the better!

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MariaS's avatar

I agree with everything that has been said but something appears to be being missed by most people.

We (the UK) are supposed to be, a Christian country!! To remind people who may have forgotten, Christianity is descended from Judaism!! Jesus was a Jew!! In other words we should be pro Jews!!!

We appear to have been taken over, by Muslims and what they think, what they want and what they tell us to do!!!

The Jews are our Brothers and Sisters not our enemy. Most of us have grown up in the same road as them, or shopped in their shops. What have they done to hurt us?

They certainly have always given our country intelligence, tried to warn us if we are in danger. They have always done the worlds dirty work in relation to ISIS etc. They have always been our close allies!!

All of the people supporting Palestine anything, can you say the same?

Watching Hamas, execute people on TV a couple of days ago, as public executions. You can really see what kind, thoughtful, nice people they are and why you are constantly protesting for them!!! Time to put the phone down, think for once with the brain you were born with and work out who lives with other nations and who tries to take them over. Which countries are democratic and which ones are not!!

Time to remember which side we should be on!!

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

That and that Islam was invented more than 600 years after Christianity.

Give me break, spend 40 days in the desert, and an angel gives you some cockamamie visions.

You may think it was angel Gabriel but it was actually angel Lucifer. How else to explain the evil in the Quran.

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Kevin Molloy's avatar

remind me Maria, who was it who had Jesus nailed to a Cross?

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LMS2's avatar

The Romans.

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Kevin Molloy's avatar

why?

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

Early 30’s Rabi named Jesus was doing serious insurrection. Romans don’t fool around. Crucifixion was sending an unambiguous message to potential revolutionaries.

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Kevin Molloy's avatar

what is your source for that?

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LMS2's avatar

Crucifixion is a method of capital punishment in which the condemned is tied or nailed to a large wooden cross, beam or stake and left to hang until eventual death.[1][2] It was used as a punishment by the Persians, Carthaginians, and Romans,[1] among others. Crucifixion has been used in some countries as recently as the 21st century.[3]

Wikipedia

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

Wisdom and education. Try them. Better than bias and mythology.

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

Two words from LMS2 and your bias is exposed. Burned.

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Kevin Molloy's avatar

with those two words being 'the Romans'? Any self respecting Christian knows that the Gospel does not say that the reason Jesus was crucified was cos Rome was out to get him. it does not say that at all. It makes clear that in fact Pontius Pilate did not want to crucify Jesus. But the Jews were insistent. That's just the Gospel, sorry.

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

The gospel was written by his beneficiaries. You think that a tearjerker plays better than reality?

Can’t kill the golden goose. And today a pope in Rome administers the monetary rewards.

Good writers earn their keep from time immemorial.

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Kevin Molloy's avatar

I'm going to take a wild stab in the dark and suggest that you are not a Christian. Which is fair enough. But the people above are, and so should be disregarding your references to 'golden gooses'. and 'popes in Rome'.

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

Suit yourself but try wisdom and education before dismissal.

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Ian Thurley's avatar

Perhaps the time has come when we should all write to the King to express our serious concerns over the state of "his" (our) country and the toxic legacy he will hand to William if he fails to get a grip and bring pressure to bear on his PM to call a GE so that we can have a chance at sorting this before it descends into civil war. Our sham of a democracy lies in tatters and the seeds of division are growing. Or perhaps that's the plan...then martial law is enforced and bang goes the last vestiges of democracy (the 2029 election) to prevent Reform from derailing the WEF et al agenda?

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Bettina's avatar

None of TPTB care so it's a waste of time writing to them. The reply is drafted before you've even sent them your letter.

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LMS2's avatar

The King is not on our side.

He's deeply sympathetic to Islam.

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

I don’t think the King will do or say anything. Hasn’t William said he will not attend the match in question. Haven’t the Royals always pivoted to the Arabic world?

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Andi's avatar

I’m in the US and I’m praying for the UK. Keir Starmer is the worst human being I’ve ever seen.

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John Gross's avatar

I agree with your sentiments, but would raise you one Sir Anthony Charles Lynton Blair. Look on my works, oh ye lowly, and despair!

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LMS2's avatar

One digital ID to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them...

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

I will raise you Anthony Albanese our Australian prime Minister. He is going to meet Trump in the Whitehouse this week. We are hoping for the Zelensky or South African treatment.

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Bettina's avatar

If the government actually named 'the problem' it would be like taking out the block in Jenga that was actually holding up the Tower of Lies - and it all comes crashing down.

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LMS2's avatar

From what I have seen, it's the radical Left reverting to type, and now being quite open about it.

Since 1945 and the revelation of the concentration camps, they've pretended they were the opposite of those nasty far Right Socialist Workers Party of Germany, instead of being fellow travellers, just a slightly different flavour.

Judean Popular Front versus the Popular Front of Judea.

Starmer and co. aren't about to come down hard on the antisemites, because they're on the same political side, and may not openly agree with everything being chanted out on the streets, but won't oppose it either.

Don't forget, that after the Southport murders, and the open anger of the British people, Starmer vowed to protect Muslims.

Not little white girls.

Muslims.

That tells you everything.

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Nicholas Haines's avatar

I think the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians murdered by Israel during the past two years, including tens of thousands of children, have had a far worse experience than British Jews. Anti-semitism is bad but condemnation of a genocidal rogue state is to be expected in these circumstances and is NOT anti-semitism. For British Jews to make this moment in history about them is unseemly and undignified to say the least. A modicum of respect for the genocide victims would not go amiss. Never again was supposed mean never again for ALL peoples of the world, not only Jews. Israel betrayed that promise and it is a global pariah as a result. We should have zero sympathy for Israel. It is the perpetrator of the current circumstances, not the victim. It has all the power. And now Israel will need to go through a lengthy period of war crimes tribunals, reparations to Palestinians, genuine remorse and repentance, and a societal transformation if it wants to be re-admitted into the international community. It will have go to through the process that Germany went through after 1945. I'm not very optimistic that Israel has what it takes. It seems to be in complete denial about what it has done and what the consequences will be for itself.

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Allison's avatar

You have got to be kidding. It really takes effort to basically reverse the entire truth like you have. Completely sick and perverse.

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Veronica Curtis's avatar

What an utterly disgusting comment. Get your facts straight.

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LMS2's avatar

"What a very bad job of genocide the Israelis have done. By Hamas figures, which are the figures of a terrorist organisation, 67,000 Palestinians have died in two years of determined ‘genocide’. Hamas estimates include teenage terrorists up to 18 as child civilian casualties, even if they were killed while armed and fighting as members of Hamas. It is almost impossible to separate out genuine civilians from their figures because they routinely count active terrorist fighters as civilians. Even doing that, they get to 67,000. That’s out of more than 2million Gazans.

The civilian casualty rate compared with the overall populace, despite these civilians being used as human shields and terrorists being counted as civilians, is the lowest rate ever recorded for densely populated urban warfare with modern artillery and arms."

if Hamas hadn't wanted Gaza to be bombed back to the stone age, it shouldn't have butchered and raped over 1000 Jewish people first.

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Angelique Davey's avatar

Agree with every single word here.

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Angelique Davey's avatar

Are you quite mad? The Gazans along with Hamas went into Israel on October 8th, mutilating and murdering innocent babies, children, women and all in their wake. They raped and mutilated babies and children. How on earth do you and the people who are so pro Palestine get your heads around this savagery??? Disgusting and shame on you. Israel has every right to defend themselves from a murderous and barbaric people.

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Angelique Davey's avatar

Sorry 7th October,

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MLL's avatar

Dont be sorry just educate yourself a bit, it actually started in 1948 and there is a long list of zionist terror against the Palestinians. Start reading Ilan Pape!

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Angelique Davey's avatar

Oh I’m quite educated thank you. I think it just depends which books you’ve been reading. Clearly you read the pro Palestine ( that NEVER even existed) version. Honestly, where throughout history do you see the Jewish people causing such savagery and hatred. They do not go through life invading and terrorising. They work hard and raise their families well.

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MLL's avatar

Ilan Pape is a Israeli jew and professor in history.... an other jew worth reading on Palestine is Miko Peled and Albert Einstein who predicted very well what would be the future if the facist part of the zionist movement got its way. I look foreward to hear a quit educated critique of these jewish people.

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Roger's avatar

Good God man, there is only one worthy attribute to your lengthy diatribe. and that is that at least have put your name to it.

Are you completely mad? Do you know the meaning of the word genocide? Are you insane enough to suggest that there is an equivalence between the state of Isreal and the Nazi regime; a regime that carried out a serious attempt at genocide in a Teutonically efficient manner.

If you have the mental agility to flip truth on its head and spew forth such disgusting and offensive drivel in the steadfast belief that it is reality I ought to feel some sort of sympathy for your carrying such delusions; I don't. All I feel is revulsion.

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Jillian Stirling's avatar

There is no genocide! That’s the wrong use of the word. Israel goes out of its way to save civilians. What a ridiculous post.

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Alan Jurek's avatar

Thanks Laura, appeasement never works, support Israel and the Jews because if we don't we are next courtesy of The Muslim Brotherhood !

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David Gilbertson's avatar

Laura is right, and Starmer (whom I have absolutely no time for), is also right.

I hold no brief for the IDF or what is happening Gaza, it is undoubtedly a genocide in every sense of the term, but those of us on the Left need to be very careful. In particular no-one in their posts or comments should resort to racist or defamatory language about Israel, Zionism, or Jewry in general - that is inexcusable. History is on our side and we (the Left) must hold the moral high ground otherwise we allow others to adopt a false and undeserved position of victimhood.

Pass this on if you agree.

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Bettina's avatar

This is satire, right?

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LMS2's avatar

There is no genocide.

Just Hamas and far Left propaganda.

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Roger's avatar

« We (the Left) must hold the moral high ground ».

As did those gentle leaders of the left, you know, those beautiful idealists Stalin, Pol Pot, Hitler, Honecker.

Even down to petty hypocritical shining examples of the sinister ideology such as Scargill and Chappell, the left sets the finest example of honest and trustworthy moral leadership.

I feel happily reassured.

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Patrick  Clarke's avatar

Yet another depressing indicator of how low Britain has sunk as a country, and all seemingly in just a handful of years. No sign of it stopping any time soon either, quite the contrary.

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BGeorge Gobel's avatar

Starmer and Toronto’s Olivia Chow are reading the same books.

Gunfire at Toronto Synagogues prompts the establishment of a fund for bulletproof glass.

The Quran worshippers remain at large.

The UK evil oozes to Canada.

Accommodations are demanded without objection.

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Philip McMullen's avatar

I stumbled across this post today. Thought you ought to see it. Some comments are especially dreadful…. I didn’t think this type of stuff was on Substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone?r=8suiq&utm_medium=ios

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Mark Brown's avatar

How much do people understand about the history of the Middle East? The MSM merely serves as propaganda.

David Hirst's book The Gun and the Olive Branch has helped me to appreciate the complexities of the Zionist agenda, with its fallout spreading far from Israel. I agree with a reviewer who said "Hirst has done a remarkable job in looking at the actions of both sides equivocally; he neither condemns nor judges, merely describes events, leaving the reader to draw his or her own conclusions." My conclusion after reading the book is that the creation of Israel has resulted in what is possibly the longest-running ethnic cleansing operation in history.

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Philip McMullen's avatar

I stumbled across this post today. Thought you ought to see it. The article and comments dreadful…. I didn’t think this type of stuff was on Substack. https://open.substack.com/pub/caitlinjohnstone?r=8suiq&utm_medium=ios

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LMS2's avatar

Unfortunately it's everywhere.

Antisemitism runs deep.

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Daisy Moses Chief Crackpot's avatar

she's super famous, super popular, an' folks love her! look at all them "likes"--they take her hate as trooth--if ya got an air-sickness bag handy, look at the other postin's she makes... truly sickenin' :-(

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Stephen F's avatar

Thanks for everything you do and write Laura. I hope you're well.

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Alice England's avatar

Send every jew to Madagascar with no phones or internet access! They’ll be nice and safe.

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