Anti-Semitism ‘normalised in middle-class Britain’

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://www.ajc.org/sites/default/files/styles/embedded_full_width_medium/public/article-images/2023-12/GettyImages-1246289487.jpg?itok=VhPELtea

Anti-Semitism has been normalised in middle-class Britain, a Government-
backed report has found.

The review warned that Jewish people in the UK were suffering increasing
prejudice “in our professions, cultural life [and] public services” and felt they
were “tolerated rather than being respected”.

The report found anti-Semitism to be
pervasive in the NHS, at universities and in the arts.

The inconsistent policing of hate crimes against Jews, including at pro-
Palestine protests, was also highlighted.

The review was co-authored by Lord Mann, the Government’s anti-Semitism
adviser, and Dame Penny Mordaunt, the former defence secretary.

Writing in The Telegraph, they said they had been “stunned into silence” by
the evidence gathered during six months of research for the Commission on
Anti-Semitism.

Among 10 recommendations made in their report, which will be published on
Tuesday and considered by the Government, are recognising Judaism as an ethnicity

The co-authors said that British Jews were often “held responsible for the
actions of the Israeli government”, which are frequently the subject of pro-
Palestine protests.

“From evidence that we heard, we can identify that there is a specific
unaddressed issue of anti-Semitism within the NHS,” they wrote.

The education sector was also criticised in the report for allowing the spread
of anti-Semitism on university campuses and in primary school classrooms.

Artists ‘cancelled because of their heritage’

The report found there was “almost nowhere” that British Jews could turn
“where anti-Semitism does not seem present in some form”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/12/anti-semitism-normalised-britain-british-board-jews-israel/

[Vicky.]

This isn't a surprise if you actually listen/read the opinions of Jewish people. Seems an awful place for them to live at the moment

[BBXX]

It does seem like anti-semitism is the one major prejudice that is brushed under the carpet and people are given a pass for.

As I’ve said elsewhere, it’s a scary time for the Jewish people and it’s horrific that civilians are made the victims of political wars.

I really don’t know enough about the Palestinian / Israeli conflict but ordinary civilians should not be made to live in fear, wherever they are in the world, because of political wars.

This study, unfortunately, doesn’t surprise me.

[Oliver_W]

Real life footage from this year's Glastonbury:

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[Livia]

LOL... Borat.

[Mystic Mock]

https://www.ajc.org/sites/default/files/styles/embedded_full_width_medium/public/article-images/2023-12/GettyImages-1246289487.jpg?itok=VhPELtea

Anti-Semitism has been normalised in middle-class Britain, a Government-
backed report has found.

The review warned that Jewish people in the UK were suffering increasing
prejudice “in our professions, cultural life [and] public services” and felt they
were “tolerated rather than being respected”.

The report found anti-Semitism to be
pervasive in the NHS, at universities and in the arts.

The inconsistent policing of hate crimes against Jews, including at pro-
Palestine protests, was also highlighted.

The review was co-authored by Lord Mann, the Government’s anti-Semitism
adviser, and Dame Penny Mordaunt, the former defence secretary.

Writing in The Telegraph, they said they had been “stunned into silence” by
the evidence gathered during six months of research for the Commission on
Anti-Semitism.

Among 10 recommendations made in their report, which will be published on
Tuesday and considered by the Government, are recognising Judaism as an ethnicity

The co-authors said that British Jews were often “held responsible for the
actions of the Israeli government”, which are frequently the subject of pro-
Palestine protests.

“From evidence that we heard, we can identify that there is a specific
unaddressed issue of anti-Semitism within the NHS,” they wrote.

The education sector was also criticised in the report for allowing the spread
of anti-Semitism on university campuses and in primary school classrooms.

Artists ‘cancelled because of their heritage’

The report found there was “almost nowhere” that British Jews could turn
“where anti-Semitism does not seem present in some form”

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/12/anti-semitism-normalised-britain-british-board-jews-israel/

Tbh I'm going to be consistent on this, as I remember having a discussion with Liam (I think it was Liam anyway,) on here a year or two ago on something similar to this, and my stance will always be the same.

I don't agree with most forms of prejudice, and I do understand that as a society we do have a duty to make sure that extremist views aren't celebrated by the general public.

However you can't make people like you, so it's better that the people that don't like you are at least tolerant towards you, rather than becoming the next KKK or Hitler.

Obviously I have used two extreme examples, but severity of the prejudice is important, and it's also important to not try and force people into liking someone or in this case a group of people.

It's Human Psychology, you'll just make the prejudice person more extreme.

[Glenn.]

Antisemitism’s never ok, and it’s never ok how normalised it still is in so many places.

Backing Jewish people doesn’t mean you can’t also stand with Palestine. Two things can be true at once. Blaming UK Jews for Israel is out of order. Ignoring what’s happening in Gaza? Also out of order.

[Mystic Mock]

Antisemitism’s never ok, and it’s never ok how normalised it still is in so many places.

Backing Jewish people doesn’t mean you can’t also stand with Palestine. Two things can be true at once. Blaming UK Jews for Israel is out of order. Ignoring what’s happening in Gaza? Also out of order.

I think that's fair points that you've made personally.

[Ninastar]

I have a Jewish friend who lives near Bradford and the stories I would hear were horrific and that was a decade ago. I dread to imagine what it’s like now. None of it was ever made news to the media which was always interesting (and scary) to me. Crazy the amount of things that get swept under the rug because it doesn’t fit the media’s perspective

[Liam-]

Are we talking actual, proper antisemitism or this new modern Zionist definition where you apparently hate Jews and want them to die if you don’t like Israel slaughtering tens of thousands of children

[Livia]

Are we talking actual, proper antisemitism or this new modern Zionist definition where you apparently hate Jews and want them to die if you don’t like Israel slaughtering tens of thousands of children

You're holding all Jews responsible for the acts of Israel. You don't do that for Muslims... why is that?

[Livia]

Antisemitism’s never ok, and it’s never ok how normalised it still is in so many places.

Backing Jewish people doesn’t mean you can’t also stand with Palestine. Two things can be true at once. Blaming UK Jews for Israel is out of order. Ignoring what’s happening in Gaza? Also out of order.

I agree with that whole post.

[Liam-]

You're holding all Jews responsible for the acts of Israel. You don't do that for Muslims... why is that?

Show me one example of me doing that

[Beso]

Are we talking actual, proper antisemitism or this new modern Zionist definition where you apparently hate Jews and want them to die if you don’t like Israel slaughtering tens of thousands of children

Artists ‘cancelled because of their heritage

[Ninastar]

Are we talking actual, proper antisemitism or this new modern Zionist definition where you apparently hate Jews and want them to die if you don’t like Israel slaughtering tens of thousands of children

I’m talking about synagogues/jewish residents having bricks thrown through their windows, threatening letters through postbox, women being harassed/assaulted without any justification process after, tires being slashed, weapons being ‘waved’ as a reminder to ‘stay in your place, women being followed/threatend on the regular, hateful graffiti, people just opening talking god awful **** about Jewish people (sometimes Christians too) and a few more things I’ve heard about over the years

And no one blinks an eye lid

People don’t care

Maybe people just aren’t aware, but this has been happening for years and it’s only going to get worse

[Ninastar]

I also remember my friend telling me that people would come around to her neighborhood and walk around wearing balaclavas and that alone scared me shitless. The thought of being attacked and not being able to see their face properly? I don’t think people really think about how that makes most women feel about their safety.

I know this isn’t just exclusive to Jewish humans, it can happen to anyone. But the idea that there are people out there openly taunting/harassing people for being Jewish and constantly getting away with it is a problem

This was before the covid masking/free Palestine cover ups etc so it always freaked me out

[Liam-]

I’m talking about synagogues/jewish residents having bricks thrown through their windows, threatening letters through postbox, women being harassed/assaulted without any justification process after, tires being slashed, weapons being ‘waved’ as a reminder to ‘stay in your place, women being followed/threatend on the regular, hateful graffiti, people just opening talking god awful **** about Jewish people (sometimes Christians too) and a few more things I’ve heard about over the years

And no one blinks an eye lid

People don’t care

Maybe people just aren’t aware, but this has been happening for years and it’s only going to get worse

And all of that is horrific and rightfully needs to be called out and stamped out, to say it’s ignored and nobody cares is just blatantly not true though let’s be real.

But on the other hand, of course the statistics are going up when the organisations conducting the research and compiling complaints are now openly including Palestinian flags and stickers and calling for the end of the genocide in Palestine as incidents of antisemitism and ‘harassment’

[Mystic Mock]

I thought you gave a lot of understanding to the people who hate Jews. Heaven forbit an article causes some friction amongst Jew-haters. Jews seem to be the one group in society whom it is acceptable to hate. I never thought it would be acceptable in this country for a Jewish man walking on a London street is turned back for being "openly Jewish" by a police officer. Otr where a member of the public brings to the attention of a police officer the flying of a flag with a swastika and the police office saying, well... the use of a swastika is subjective and letting it go. Everything chips away,

I personally think it's always a good thing to try and understand the logic of any group of people, and try to think how you personally would respond to certain situations if you were to think like them, in this case an Anti-Semitic person.

And then try to think of ways to make these people see sense, i.e genuinely not hating on Jewish people anymore.

I honestly apologise if my posts were coming across like I'm an Anti-Semite sympathizer, because it is the total opposite that I'm aiming for, at least that's my intention.

And I agree with you that Anti-Semitism is far too accepted in this country, because flying a Swastika at an Israel vs. Palestine rally is someone clearly looking to cause trouble, and the Police should do something about those kinds of people imo.

[Ninastar]

And all of that is horrific and rightfully needs to be called out and stamped out, to say it’s ignored and nobody cares is just blatantly not true though let’s be real.

But on the other hand, of course the statistics are going up when the organisations conducting the research and compiling complaints are now openly including Palestinian flags and stickers and calling for the end of the genocide in Palestine as incidents of antisemitism and ‘harassment’

People don’t care though… many people are completely unaware of it happening bc again, the media does not give a **** about it

If this was happening to Muslims, there would be marches, protests, social media would be rampant with rage, demanding change and justice.

But if the perpetrators are Muslim, it’s a free pass. It’s similar to those sex gangs that were happening years back (I’m sure they are still happening, too)

People are afraid to speak out because they fear being ‘cancelled’ or labelled as racist by society and that is not okay.

Every person, no matter their religion/race/culture etc etc should be able to report things without fear of being labelled xyz and it should always be taken 100% seriously from the police/government/whoever is in charge.

[Liam-]

People don’t care though… many people are completely unaware of it happening bc again, the media does not give a **** about it

If this was happening to Muslims, there would be marches, protests, social media would be rampant with rage, demanding change and justice.

But if the perpetrators are Muslim, it’s a free pass. It’s similar to those sex gangs that were happening years back (I’m sure they are still happening, too)

People are afraid to speak out because they fear being ‘cancelled’ or labelled as racist by society and that is not okay.

Every person, no matter their religion/race/culture etc etc should be able to report things without fear of being labelled xyz and it should always be taken 100% seriously from the police/government/whoever is in charge.

All of that is just so blatantly the opposite of true there’s no point even trying to argue against it

[Ninastar]

All of that is just so blatantly the opposite of true there’s no point even trying to argue against it

I can see why you would think that. A lot of people haven’t experienced it personally so have no idea that it’s an issue. When you travel a lot and work with multicultural families, you see the world a lot differently. I know I’m in the minority and I know that people think that this is all a thinly veiled racism. But the words I say aren’t just from my thoughts, they are experiences of people who I have met over the years. I worked have worked in schools where it’s a 100% Muslim population. I have talked to the teachers who experience horrific abuse on a daily basis (that’s all schools of course,) and I have seen how it’s rampantly ignored. I also worked in a Christian school in Bradford and I’ve seen people hang around the school at dismissal to intimate others. Grown ass men antagonising women in kids. It happens so often and people just don’t know how bad it is.

I don’t blame people for thinking the way they do. The internet has such a choke hold on what is okay to say/think and what not to think. People died at the Ariana Grande concert because people were too afraid to act on their suspicions in fear of being labled racist. I’m not saying that’s why they died… they were murdered in a terrorist attack, but perhaps more people could have been saved if authorities were properly warned about him.

I hate to derail the thread, this is supposed to be about antisemitism being ignored in middle class society. I’m only posting my personal experiences with how I’ve seen things happen.

That’s not to say that Muslim families experience hatred and racism too, we know it happens. Ive seen that happen to and it’s awful. I can honestly say that some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met are Muslim. Most of them a genuinely amazing people. But there are 100% people out there who use their race/religion as a threat against other people. They tell them that the police won’t do anything about it and they are right. I dread to think of how many teenagers (it wasn’t just girls who were gang raped) thought about how they would never be able to escape the cycle of torture and abuse they went through.

I am not good with words, it has never been my strong suit, but I truly believe that people just aren’t aware of how horrific some places are in the UK.

[Liam-]

I can see why you would think that. A lot of people haven’t experienced it personally so have no idea that it’s an issue. When you travel a lot and work with multicultural families, you see the world a lot differently. I know I’m in the minority and I know that people think that this is all a thinly veiled racism. But the words I say aren’t just from my thoughts, they are experiences of people who I have met over the years. I worked have worked in schools where it’s a 100% Muslim population. I have talked to the teachers who experience horrific abuse on a daily basis (that’s all schools of course,) and I have seen how it’s rampantly ignored. I also worked in a Christian school in Bradford and I’ve seen people hang around the school at dismissal to intimate others. Grown ass men antagonising women in kids. It happens so often and people just don’t know how bad it is.

I don’t blame people for thinking the way they do. The internet has such a choke hold on what is okay to say/think and what not to think. People died at the Ariana Grande concert because people were too afraid to act on their suspicions in fear of being labled racist. I’m not saying that’s why they died… they were murdered in a terrorist attack, but perhaps more people could have been saved if authorities were properly warned about him.

I hate to derail the thread, this is supposed to be about antisemitism being ignored in middle class society. I’m only posting my personal experiences with how I’ve seen things happen.

That’s not to say that Muslim families experience hatred and racism too, we know it happens. Ive seen that happen to and it’s awful. I can honestly say that some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met are Muslim. Most of them a genuinely amazing people. But there are 100% people out there who use their race/religion as a threat against other people. They tell them that the police won’t do anything about it and they are right. I dread to think of how many teenagers (it wasn’t just girls who were gang raped) thought about how they would never be able to escape the cycle of torture and abuse they went through.

I am not good with words, it has never been my strong suit, but I truly believe that people just aren’t aware of how horrific some places are in the UK.

Of course there are bad people from all backgrounds and faith, but your conclusion that Muslims get away with everything and are protected by society and treated better than other religions, while Jews aren’t safe to walk the streets and are perpetual victims that nobody cares about just aren’t rooted in reality that you can see in the world on a daily basis, Muslim people in this country are in a constant state of danger from thick racists that just want to hurt them because of how they look or where they’ve come from, because other people who look like them have done bad things, Islamophobia is an accepted form of racism in the uk and America, by the media, by public figures and by the public, that’s just a fact, meanwhile you can’t even have an honest conversation about Israel and Zionism without being silenced by the media, fired from your job or being accused of antisemitism, the Israeli lobbies pay to have major influence over western media and politics so that they can push their propaganda at will and people lap it up, less and less every day thankfully, but that’s the case

[Maru]

Why Grok Fell in Love With Hitler
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/10/musk-grok-hitler-ai-00447055

The internet certainly did notice a difference Tuesday, when Grok posted antisemitic comments, associated Jewish-sounding surnames with “anti-white hate” and wrote that Adolf Hitler would “spot the pattern” and “handle it decisively, every damn time.” For good measure, it also called itself “MechaHitler.” Following the controversy, Musk posted that the AI had been “too compliant to user prompts.”

“I don’t think we want a world where a few oligarchs can influence our beliefs very heavily, including in subtle ways by shaping what their social media sites do,” he said.

No s***.

[Maru]

I can see why you would think that. A lot of people haven’t experienced it personally so have no idea that it’s an issue. When you travel a lot and work with multicultural families, you see the world a lot differently. I know I’m in the minority and I know that people think that this is all a thinly veiled racism. But the words I say aren’t just from my thoughts, they are experiences of people who I have met over the years. I worked have worked in schools where it’s a 100% Muslim population. I have talked to the teachers who experience horrific abuse on a daily basis (that’s all schools of course,) and I have seen how it’s rampantly ignored. I also worked in a Christian school in Bradford and I’ve seen people hang around the school at dismissal to intimate others. Grown ass men antagonising women in kids. It happens so often and people just don’t know how bad it is.

I don’t blame people for thinking the way they do. The internet has such a choke hold on what is okay to say/think and what not to think. People died at the Ariana Grande concert because people were too afraid to act on their suspicions in fear of being labled racist. I’m not saying that’s why they died… they were murdered in a terrorist attack, but perhaps more people could have been saved if authorities were properly warned about him.

I hate to derail the thread, this is supposed to be about antisemitism being ignored in middle class society. I’m only posting my personal experiences with how I’ve seen things happen.

That’s not to say that Muslim families experience hatred and racism too, we know it happens. Ive seen that happen to and it’s awful. I can honestly say that some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met are Muslim. Most of them a genuinely amazing people. But there are 100% people out there who use their race/religion as a threat against other people. They tell them that the police won’t do anything about it and they are right. I dread to think of how many teenagers (it wasn’t just girls who were gang raped) thought about how they would never be able to escape the cycle of torture and abuse they went through.

I am not good with words, it has never been my strong suit, but I truly believe that people just aren’t aware of how horrific some places are in the UK.

I think this was really well-written. You should write novels more often, Nina...

[Mystic Mock]

I can see why you would think that. A lot of people haven’t experienced it personally so have no idea that it’s an issue. When you travel a lot and work with multicultural families, you see the world a lot differently. I know I’m in the minority and I know that people think that this is all a thinly veiled racism. But the words I say aren’t just from my thoughts, they are experiences of people who I have met over the years. I worked have worked in schools where it’s a 100% Muslim population. I have talked to the teachers who experience horrific abuse on a daily basis (that’s all schools of course,) and I have seen how it’s rampantly ignored. I also worked in a Christian school in Bradford and I’ve seen people hang around the school at dismissal to intimate others. Grown ass men antagonising women in kids. It happens so often and people just don’t know how bad it is.

I don’t blame people for thinking the way they do. The internet has such a choke hold on what is okay to say/think and what not to think. People died at the Ariana Grande concert because people were too afraid to act on their suspicions in fear of being labled racist. I’m not saying that’s why they died… they were murdered in a terrorist attack, but perhaps more people could have been saved if authorities were properly warned about him.

I hate to derail the thread, this is supposed to be about antisemitism being ignored in middle class society. I’m only posting my personal experiences with how I’ve seen things happen.

That’s not to say that Muslim families experience hatred and racism too, we know it happens. Ive seen that happen to and it’s awful. I can honestly say that some of the most amazing people I’ve ever met are Muslim. Most of them a genuinely amazing people. But there are 100% people out there who use their race/religion as a threat against other people. They tell them that the police won’t do anything about it and they are right. I dread to think of how many teenagers (it wasn’t just girls who were gang raped) thought about how they would never be able to escape the cycle of torture and abuse they went through.

I am not good with words, it has never been my strong suit, but I truly believe that people just aren’t aware of how horrific some places are in the UK.

Welcome to the club.:dance:

[Mystic Mock]

Why Grok Fell in Love With Hitler
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/07/10/musk-grok-hitler-ai-00447055





No s***.

Mecha Hitler?:joker:

I know that I shouldn't laugh, but it's just so ridiculous.

[Maru]

Mecha Hitler?:joker:

I know that I shouldn't laugh, but it's just so ridiculous.

Jokes about Jews (including extermination jokes) have been a past time of internet humor since the mid 90s. I never understood what they were even making fun of but had a Jewish BFF at one point who had become a favorite target of a group of Christian girls. Including trying to convert her. I never got the impression one could complain about it as a Jew because it would just lead to more cruel ribbing.

[Mystic Mock]

Jokes about Jews (including extermination jokes) have been a past time of internet humor since the mid 90s. I never understood what they were even making fun of but had a Jewish BFF at one point who had become a favorite target of a group of Christian girls. Including trying to convert her. I never got the impression one could complain about it as a Jew because it would just lead to more cruel ribbing.

I have never understood why some people think that it's okay to bully Jewish people tbh.

And tbf I remember Islamophobia was a big thing at my Primary School.

[Zizu]

I have never understood why some people think that it's okay to bully Jewish people tbh.

And tbf I remember Islamophobia was a big thing at my Primary School.


I have never understood WHY people don’t like jewish folk in the first place


Its all a complete mystery


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[Mystic Mock]

I have never understood WHY people don’t like jewish folk in the first place


Its all a complete mystery


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Nowadays it seems like all Jewish people are being associated with Israel.

[Zizu]

Nowadays it seems like all Jewish people are being associated with Israel.


Yeah but this as been going on what seems like forever


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[Liam-]

Nowadays it seems like all Jewish people are being associated with Israel.

False

[Maru]

Nowadays it seems like all Jewish people are being associated with Israel.

It's probably difficult (as a Jew) to not take personally a lot of what is happening there and being said... so I see some of that being due to Jewish people/individuals who are also speaking up on their own behalf politically, perhaps even defend their own right to exist. It's all very complicated.

[Maru]

(July 14th) Sesame Workshop regains control of Elmo’s hacked X account after racist posts
https://apnews.com/article/elmo-hacked-x-2bad123f13b3e5595a82148abfc6c6b9

https://i.postimg.cc/K4SbhjwQ/elmo-twitter-hacked.avif

[Beso]

I have never understood WHY people don’t like jewish folk in the first place


Its all a complete mystery


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Jealousy.

[Maru]

Jealousy.

Absolutely. Envy is a huge motivator for people to target others and it's not talked about very much. That isn't just an issue with how some treat Jews. Acting out based on jealousy or envy is encouraged in our culture with all the talk of certain groups having it better than others. People are generally more willing to overlook certain abuse if they perceive the person being targeted somehow has more advantage than them, even if that individual clearly has had a hard time in life. I've seen that with treatment of people in my own family with crippling disabilities. They were white they were perceived to be somehow more well off and so what's a little bit of mistreatment... they've survived everything else fine, right?

[Ninastar]

I think this was really well-written. You should write novels more often, Nina...

Aww thank you! That means a lot!! I overthink and overanalyse every single thought I think so I worry I come off as rude or uninformed

[Mystic Mock]

False

It really isn't.

There has been clear evidence of some people not liking Jewish people because of the Israel conflict with Palestine.

Just like how there are innocent Muslims that get tarred with groups like ISIS and the Taliban by some people.

The truth can never be false, Liam.

[Mystic Mock]

Yeah but this as been going on what seems like forever


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October 7th is when the conflict between the two nations got worse.

[Mystic Mock]

It's probably difficult (as a Jew) to not take personally a lot of what is happening there and being said... so I see some of that being due to Jewish people/individuals who are also speaking up on their own behalf politically, perhaps even defend their own right to exist. It's all very complicated.

I do agree with you about it being a complicated situation.

It's why the dehumanizing that goes on by both sides sometimes, will never see a solution to the problem.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Shocking anti-semitism now in Dublin! :shocked:

https://x.com/RachelMoiselle/status/1946373110678118402

[Crimson Dynamo]

Jewish teachers report increasing instances of swastika graffiti and chants of
‘free Palestine’ and ‘f--- the Jews’

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/content/dam/briefs/2025/07/19/TELEMMGLPICT000353335227_17529446314360_trans_NvBQ zQNjv4BqRo0U4xU-30oDveS4pXV-Vv4Xpit_DMGvdp2n7FDd82k.jpeg?imwidth=500

Anti-Semitism is rife in the UK’s schools, with more than half of Jewish teachers reporting abuse.

Jewish teachers have reported increasing instances of swastika graffiti and
chants of “free Palestine” and “f--- the Jews”.

The findings were revaled in a survey of Jewish teachers by the National
Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers (NASUWT), which
has more than 300,000 members.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/20/anti-semitism-rife-in-uk-schools/

[Beso]

Red paint...the tell tale sign of Palestine action.

[Cherie]

Shocking anti-semitism now in Dublin! :shocked:

https://x.com/RachelMoiselle/status/1946373110678118402

Disgusting

[Vanessa]

That's really disturbing. Like history repeating itself :facepalm:

[Crimson Dynamo]

James O’Brien “Should Be Taken Off Air” After Antisemitic Comments Claiming
British Jews Are Taught “Arabs Are Cockroaches to be Crushed”

https://dailysceptic.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Screenshot-2025-07-23-151335-750x375.png

The LBC presenter read out a message on air from a listener who claimed that Jews are taught “Arabs are cockroaches to be crushed”.

Mr O’Brien, a former host of BBC Newsnight, said he read out the message in the interest of “objectivity”.

But the Board of Deputies of British Jews have labelled the comments “unacceptable and highly offensive”, and have called on LBC to apologise and “take Mr O’Brien off air”.

The Telegraph understands the broadcast has also been reported to the Metropolitan Police, with one complaint alleging that the programme spread “lies about Jews”.

Police have reportedly been told the show “puts Jews in very real danger”.

https://dailysceptic.org/2025/07/23/james-obrien-should-be-taken-off-air-after-antisemitic-comments-claiming-british-jews-are-taught-arabs-are-cockroaches-to-be-crushed/

[Livia]

I was never taught that [story above]. Israel has the most Jews of any country (obviously), and more than 20% of the population of Israel is Arab. Those Arabs have all the same rights and freedoms as everyone else in the country be they Jews, Christians, Muslims, Atheists or something else. What's more their women can vote and have equal access to education and medicine. But that won't cut any ice with the dyed in the wool Jew hater.

[Mystic Mock]

It's not in Britain, but whoa! To this insane clip.:shocked:

1948359733951250561

[Maru]

It's not in Britain, but whoa! To this insane clip.:shocked:

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I blame the lack of a viable education system in the US for making this conversation even possible... it's not surprising, sadly...

[Mystic Mock]

I blame the lack of a viable education system in the US for making this conversation even possible... it's not surprising, sadly...

Thankfully though Maru, these idiots only represent a small portion of the American people.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Thankfully though Maru, these idiots only represent a small portion of the American people.

As Maru said, they represent a class of kids in the USA who have very little in the way of a formal education

[Beso]

Venue wont allow 2 Jewish comedians to perform at Edinburgh fringe festival..

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/07/25/58579/jewish_comedians_have_their_fringe_runs_cancelled

[Livia]

It's not in Britain, but whoa! To this insane clip.:shocked:

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Honestly... I give up. This link makes me want to give up completely. The profoundly ignorant idiot black girl and her grinning, whooping cohorts would be the first to whine about racism. It makes me sad that stuff like this is out there and people support it.

[Nicky91]

the people in that podcast seem like the same types who smoke weed and get drunk almost every night, like the blokes in that video look like your average football players :skull:

[Maru]

Honestly... I give up. This link makes me want to give up completely. The profoundly ignorant idiot black girl and her grinning, whooping cohorts would be the first to whine about racism. It makes me sad that stuff like this is out there and people support it.

Oh it won't last forever. People are getting fed up with dumbed down culture. We live with too many effects of it on a daily basis and it's not a secret we are slipping. I think once we have weaned ourselves out of a coddling mentality and sharpened back up our interpersonal communications, it's not gonna be a matter of if, but rather when people start pointing out easily observable logic that would make it much harder for any kind of bullshit status quo to stick. This kind of conversation only comes off intelligent to others because we have had a very lazy libertarian perspective on our culture that was based around not upsetting people for so long. I already see people from all over becoming done with it. There should be a minimum age requirement like alcohol for when debates about historic events are allowed to even happen with how poorly our youth has been done by our education system... (that was a joke)

[Mystic Mock]

Honestly... I give up. This link makes me want to give up completely. The profoundly ignorant idiot black girl and her grinning, whooping cohorts would be the first to whine about racism. It makes me sad that stuff like this is out there and people support it.

Oh these people are huge hypocrites.

This Podcast has been known in the past to have very questionable views on life in general.

But this is the lowest that they've ever gone.

[Livia]

Oh these people are huge hypocrites.

This Podcast has been known in the past to have very questionable views on life in general.

But this is the lowest that they've ever gone.

It makes me sad. But these ignorant people are just the thin end of the wedge. Anti-Semitism didn't go away with the end of WW2, it's alive and well and flourishing. People feel free to insult Jews because they disagree with Israel and they can't separate French or English or any other nationality of Jews with Israelis. lt happens regularly on this very forum and the comments are not only allowed to remain, they're supported. I've stopped reporting posts because nothing happens. And it's mostly from people who turn themselves inside out with indignation if anyone speaks against whichever niche they identify their lives. I honestly don't think it will get better, I think it will get worse and more Jews will die. And some people will celebrate that. I view the future with pessimism, but that's because I'm a well-informed optimist.

[Cherie]

Venue wont allow 2 Jewish comedians to perform at Edinburgh fringe festival..

https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2025/07/25/58579/jewish_comedians_have_their_fringe_runs_cancelled

Pretty outrageous no?

Would anyone else on the planet be stopped from performing

An Iranian...? their human rights aren't great
An Irish person....mmm remember the IRA
A Muslim..... Isis, Taliban...
but a Jewish person....something something Israel

[Maru]

Oh these people are huge hypocrites.

This Podcast has been known in the past to have very questionable views on life in general.

But this is the lowest that they've ever gone.

How much of what they say though do they actually believe and isn't just following the same trend of saying certain things for shock value. Being shameless is practically free at this point with where we are now and the downsides to that are almost non-existent, so it's obviously profitable to keep playing that card. At least in part, I can see that the "logic" used is something spun up to appeal to their demographics who treat mishandling controversial topics like it's the Olympics version of "being real".

It's the same to me when people are attacking others for not following their correct moral position with them (with every new, new thing that comes up), but they go about it the most malicious way but using hysterical logic to broadcast their own virtue. That's not different, imo, because it's being based upon the importance of looking a certain way to the overall crowd and I tend to think those people are the most fakest of all.

So while I clearly think at least some (especially in the youth) are parroting these views because it's trendy... Unfortunately, it falls into the same trap where attacks on Jews or general anti-Semitism have always often been filed under the umbrella of saying things for attention and shock value (as in the 90s as the internet grew). So people have gotten used to hearing that out in the wild without thinking much of it and so then it means actual malice is treated as people joking around and being non-serious and immature. Eventually that pattern will have to be stopped.

I don't think that Livia is wrong to say violent incidents will increase, because as bad as October 7th was, it hasn't done much to reverse that trend. But then there still is and are a lot of people that didn't think Anti-Semitic views still had this much traction within our own borders.

[Mystic Mock]

It makes me sad. But these ignorant people are just the thin end of the wedge. Anti-Semitism didn't go away with the end of WW2, it's alive and well and flourishing. People feel free to insult Jews because they disagree with Israel and they can't separate French or English or any other nationality of Jews with Israelis. lt happens regularly on this very forum and the comments are not only allowed to remain, they're supported. I've stopped reporting posts because nothing happens. And it's mostly from people who turn themselves inside out with indignation if anyone speaks against whichever niche they identify their lives. I honestly don't think it will get better, I think it will get worse and more Jews will die. And some people will celebrate that. I view the future with pessimism, but that's because I'm a well-informed optimist.

It definitely appears to be trendy in certain circles to be Anti-Semitic.

[Mystic Mock]

How much of what they say though do they actually believe and isn't just following the same trend of saying certain things for shock value. Being shameless is practically free at this point with where we are now and the downsides to that are almost non-existent, so it's obviously profitable to keep playing that card. At least in part, I can see that the "logic" used is something spun up to appeal to their demographics who treat mishandling controversial topics like it's the Olympics version of "being real".

It's the same to me when people are attacking others for not following their correct moral position with them (with every new, new thing that comes up), but they go about it the most malicious way but using hysterical logic to broadcast their own virtue. That's not different, imo, because it's being based upon the importance of looking a certain way to the overall crowd and I tend to think those people are the most fakest of all.

So while I clearly think at least some (especially in the youth) are parroting these views because it's trendy... Unfortunately, it falls into the same trap where attacks on Jews or general anti-Semitism have always often been filed under the umbrella of saying things for attention and shock value (as in the 90s as the internet grew). So people have gotten used to hearing that out in the wild without thinking much of it and so then it means actual malice is treated as people joking around and being non-serious and immature. Eventually that pattern will have to be stopped.

I don't think that Livia is wrong to say violent incidents will increase, because as bad as October 7th was, it hasn't done much to reverse that trend. But then there still is and are a lot of people that didn't think Anti-Semitic views still had this much traction within our own borders.

Whether they meant it or not.

I can't believe that the Podcast is still allowed to operate after talking about wanting to commit genocide on a group of people.

Once again, western society/justice system having it's priorities backwards.

[Ninastar]

I watched this video and died laughing, it took me a second to understand the joke but yes, amazing

Then I read some comments and what the ****

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK3FRk5xHRj/?igsh=eGVnd2JveHducTA3

[Crimson Dynamo]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G0O1eXgW8AAn7pi?format=jpg&name=small

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/brits-uk-antisemitic-adl-survey-qhe5ao08

[BBXX]

Genuinely question, because I am super interested.

Do you think it's possible to be:

- against mass bombings of civilians at the hands of Israel
- against terrorist organisations like Hamas
- gay
- not anti-semitic

All at the same time? If not, why not?

[Crimson Dynamo]

If you’re a Brit who doesn’t hate Jews – a smaller number than you might think
– then you may be surprised by a poll published over the weekend by the
Campaign Against Antisemitism, to coincide with its protest march through
London. The CAA’s YouGov poll found that the number of people who admitted
– perhaps a better word is boasted – they hate Jews has doubled since 2021.


https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-do-so-many-brits-hate-jews/

[Beso]

Genuinely question, because I am super interested.

Do you think it's possible to be:

- against mass bombings of civilians at the hands of Israel
- against terrorist organisations like Hamas
- gay
- not anti-semitic

All at the same time? If not, why not?

Depends where you live.

Israel, yes
Gaza, no
UK, probably.

[Livia]

So all the posts from the Jew have been removed LOL....

[Maru]

So all the posts from the Jew have been removed LOL....

?

[BBXX]

Depends where you live.

Israel, yes
Gaza, no
UK, probably.

Thank you and I would probably agree in general with your answer.