We’re familiar by now with the peculiar paradox of left-wingers and feminists, those weird well-born women who would scream blue murder if a white bus driver called them ‘love’, but who are now marching every Saturday in support of Hamas, a supremacist terror group who used sexual assault as a weapon.
As dopey as these people are, they don’t actually have any power over us. When it comes to the police though, it’s a different story.
Last Saturday in London, a policeman threatened to arrest a Jewish man, Gideon Falter of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, for literally wanting to cross the road in front of a Palestinian march, saying ‘Sir, you are quite openly Jewish, this is a pro-Palestinian march.’ He was later told, ‘if you choose to remain here you are causing a breach of peace, you will be arrested… your presence here is antagonising a large group of people, we can’t deal with all of them if they attack you because your presence is antagonising them.’
This is unfortunately nothing new. Every week the British police tolerate the pro-Hamas rallies which have defaced and disgraced the capital since the 7 October pogroms in Israel. We’ve seen the gallantry displayed by the boys in blue towards the boys with the black flags; we’ve seen policemen watch helplessly as Palestinian protestors clamber onto war memorials, and stand by amiably as the genocidal slogan ‘From the river to the sea’ is beamed onto the Houses of Parliament. This led the Conservative MP Andrew Percy to state: ‘It’s the pathetic response we’ve come to expect from the Met – a force that has at times appeared to act more like a PR arm for the protesters than a law enforcement agency.’ So protective are they of their team that a young Iranian man was arrested after carrying a poster which read ‘Hamas is terrorist’. He was wrestled to the ground by five police officers.
The police seem intensely relaxed about swastikas when they are employed by Palestinian supporters – though you can bet that if a white nationalist group walked down the street bearing even a tiny one, the coppers would have it off of them before you could say ‘Double standards.’ Last month during an anti-Israel march, a clip of a policeman assuring a distressed young Jewish woman that swastikas – seen on many Palestinian banners – like everything else, ‘need to be taken into context’. Another officer reportedly told her swastikas were ‘not necessarily anti-Semitic or a disruption of public order’.
The police seem intensely relaxed about swastikas when they are employed by Palestinian supporters
Last week the Daily Mail reported:
‘Police Scotland was last night embroiled in an extraordinary hate crime row amid claims a woman who reported an anti-Semitic Facebook post ended up being quizzed about her own ethnicity. A former police officer reported the post, which depicts a Nazi swastika within a Star of David, to the force but claims she was told no charges would be brought because she is not herself Jewish. The post, made by a relative of an SNP minister we have chosen not to name, is captioned “Nazism = Zionism”. The woman, who does not wish to be identified for fear of reprisals, said she alerted Police Scotland – but claimed that she was then quizzed about her own background. Within an hour of giving a statement on Saturday, she said officers told her that the complaint was being discarded because she is not Jewish:
“The officer called me later that afternoon. He said, ‘Can I ask you, are you Jewish?’ I said no. He said, ‘I’m going to ask you again; it’s just because I need the box ticked. Do you identify as being Jewish?’ I said no, I’m not going to lie to get anybody charged. He said, ‘Well, that falls out with the parameters. It won’t be moving forward as a crime.’ I’m not a political activist, but I do hate anti-Semitism. This mentality existed before, but it has been enabled and allowed to fester in the last six months. We need to nip this behaviour in the bud. It’s like going back almost 100 years to central Europe. It’s being allowed and nobody’s standing up. I am offended, and I’m not Jewish.”’
I’ve been getting this all my life from weirdos, ever since as a kid I found out about the Holocaust. ‘You’re not even Jewish – why do you care?’ It’s such a strange thing to say, and reminds me of those creatures on social media who ask why JK Rowling can’t just be happy being a really rich person without involving herself in the protection of vulnerable women and girls who might be imprisoned or need refuges. It says so much about the speaker – and nothing about the accused.
Remember taking the knee? Everyone was encouraged to do that – policeman did it. Think of pronouns – we’re all meant to use them in order to Be Kind. Everybody’s encouraged to be a Good Ally these days, making sure we put our White Privilege to good use – except if one is a Gentile keen to be doing something to combat the oldest hatred of a racial group that the world has ever known.
I would venture that ‘anti-Semitism’ doesn’t cover what’s going on right now – ‘Judeophobia’ says it better. For this really is an irrational neurotic ailment. Why are people so hostile to such a loyal, productive, well-assimilated, un-criminal, non-violent immigrant group, who have often driven me into sullen silence when they insist on singing the National Anthem of the UK at every public meeting? Why are we treating them so badly and – in the case of the police – assisting other groups in tormenting them? Why, for the first time last year, when figures on hate crimes against Jews hit a record high, was there for the very first time at least one incident in every police region in the UK, which means that anti-Semitism now exists in regions even where there are no Jews? No one with any sense believes that this is about the number of deaths taking place in Gaza; the big giveaway is that the first London rally took place before Israel fought back. It was a simple celebration of Jew-killing, the oldest hatred dressed up in fashionable new clothes.
I just keep thinking of how lonely British Jews must feel, seeing the swastikas paraded about on the streets of the capital they have contributed so much to – and now, according to the police, any Gentile who seeks to stand with them will be told that their feelings are not valid.
Growing up, no matter what went wrong with this country, we always had the shared memory of how we stood up to Hitler against all odds and eventually brought an end to his attempted genocide of this ancient and resilient people. The police doubled down in their ‘apology’ this weekend to Gideon Falter, stating that opponents of pro-Palestinian marches ‘must know that their presence is provocative’ and are ‘increasing the likelihood of an altercation’ by lining the route. This then led the Met to issue another statement apologising for the ‘further offence’ caused by their first apology – keep up! No doubt they would tell me that, as someone with no Jewish blood, I have no right to feel offended. But, like Gideon Falter and his people, I too finally feel a foreigner in my own country – where being ‘openly Jewish’ is an offence against public order.
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