The post The failure of Holocaust education appeared first on Anglican Mainstream. by Melanie Phillips: For shocking numbers in the west, Jewish victimhood cannot be tolerated. Another day, another onslaught on diaspora Jews. On Thursday night, in the affluent...
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by Melanie Phillips:
For shocking numbers in the west, Jewish victimhood cannot be tolerated.
Another day, another onslaught on diaspora Jews.
On Thursday night, in the affluent London district of Primrose Hill, Jewish volunteers putting up posters of Israeli hostages in Gaza were violently attacked. The Telegraph reports:
The group of six volunteers were hanging posters when they were approached by a woman expressing her support for Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based militia opposed to Israel, with a man thought to be known to the woman also intimidating the group.
Police dealt with the incident and the group moved about a mile further north to Primrose Hill where, at around 8.30 pm, they started placing more posters on the bridge to Chalk Farm.
Almost immediately, a passer-by thought to be in his early 20s, started abusing the group with antisemitic language before allegedly launching an assault. One of the women was thrown twice to the ground, had her phone smashed and was repeatedly struck in the face and kicked.
Since the Hamas pogrom of October 7 in southern Israel, a tsunami of hatred against the Jews has surged across the west. Decent people everywhere are aghast and astonished that this should be the response by so many to the greatest single act of mass murder against Jews since the Holocaust.
They are even more perplexed that a recurring characteristic of such attacks is to tear down the posters of the Israeli hostages that have been pasted up in public areas in a forlorn attempt to keep their fate alive in the public mind so that they may be returned home.
The reason for such driven and unhinged behaviour against posters stuck on walls is as obvious as it is appalling. Certain people simply cannot tolerate the fact of Jewish victimhood. So intolerable do they find this, they have to literally tear down the evidence with their own hands. No less significant is the way they do so, with both verbal and facial expressions of the most intense disgust. They find the idea of Jewish victims disgusting. And that’s because they find the very idea of Jews disgusting. What they are doing to those posters is what they would like to do to Israeli Jews.
For evidence of that, watch this video by Avi Horowitz who went to San Francisco State university to “raise money to kill Jews”. He found 28 out of 35 people with whom he engaged supported this aim, and 17 out of 35 actually offered him money “to kill Jews”.
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