October 12, 2023

"We said 'never again.' The UK was a safe haven. Now..."

"... after the biggest massacre of Jews since the holocaust, British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary."

Writes J.K. Rowling, at "X," showing us this letter to the editor of the London Times from London resident Dr Sarah Nachshen:
Sir, On advice from her school our teenage daughter has gone off without her blazer this morning. Her male classmates have been advised to cover their skullcaps with baseball caps. On her pre-school dawn run yesterday she ran past the broken glass of a kosher cafĂ©’s windows and a fresh anti-Israel slogan painted on a bridge. All my grandparents were Holocaust survivors who found safe haven, and built new lives, in the UK, so of course I am twitching with latent anxiety and the creeping dangers of the masses not speaking out against terrorism. I sincerely hope Rishi Sunak honours his pledge to stand with Israel and protect British Jews. 

73 comments:

Kate said...

I would say that Hamas' attack on Israel surprises me not at all; that the Israeli intelligence's failure to anticipate the attack surprises me somewhat; and that the open anti-Semitism in the West immediately after the attack surprises me quite a bit.

Big Mike said...

… she ran past the broken glass of a kosher cafe’s windows …

The return of Kristallnacht! No need to fly to Germany and time travel back 85 years.

Dave Begley said...

Look what happened in South Africa.

Tribalism is a recipe for disaster.

People should stay in their own countries.

We must close our borders and radically reduce legal immigration for 50 years. Only the best should be allowed in.

Oso Negro said...

Too big to cancel and free to speak. So far.

Shouting Thomas said...

Enact a First and Second Amendment in the U.K. so that Jews don’t have to plead with the government for protection.

They need free speech and guns, not patronizing protectors.

iowan2 said...

British Jewish children are being advised to hide their identities as they walk to school, for their own safety. There should be mass outrage that this is necessary."

Are we still going to pretend we don't know WHO we have to hide our identity from? I'm speaking of course about 80% of college students. They voice their support of abusing, terrorizing and murdering civilians. Infants beheaded, Elderly killed, women raped on the streets, and then murdured. Families burned alive in their homes.

Yes be very wary of US college students. If I were a Jewish woman retired from teaching college law, I would be very afraid of walking alone in the early morning hours. tthe very least I would cloak my core identity and values.

Buckwheathikes said...

The Mayor of London is named Sadiq Khan. He is a Pakistani Muslim.

He was a lawyer.

His firm represented Zacarias Moussaoui, one of the terrorists who planned the 9-11 attacks on New York and Washington, DC. Moussaoui is in a SuperMax prison in the United States.

If you are a Jew living in London, you should probably leave or you will likely be executed by the terrorists who have taken over your city. Muslims worldwide are planning a Day of Jihadi attacks on Friday, October 13, following their "prayers."

Al Qaeda won on 9-11. You people need to come to grips with this reality.

Leland said...

The UK is so progressive these days.

The Crack Emcee said...

Inventing the concept of God was a stupid move. Telling the world you're his favorite?

That's even stupider.

And, once again, we get Jews saying "never again", while blacks are being askedwhen are we going to forget about everything?

Shoeless Joe said...

Brits should set up stings where Jewish kids walk around as always, their "identities" on full display. If/when they get harassed or threatened by representatives from the Religion Of Peace said representatives are immediately arrested and then deported. If telling a cop she looks like a lesbian is a punishable offense under British law then so is menacing children out of bigotry.

Let the animals self-identify and take it from there.

Dave Begley said...

Pro Hamas demonstration at University of Wisconsin.

Dave Begley said...

The protest was in front of the Memorial Library; at least 100 people. Waving flags.

“We will liberate the land.”
“By any means necessary.”

I guess that means beheading babies.

Reports that Israel is going to starve Gaza out. After they are out of food, then move in. Super smart, if true.

Aggie said...

Having just toured a Nazi SS prison and concentration camp this past summer, and felt the anguish within its walls as we had the living facility's conditions related to us, one can only conclude that the old evil is up and walking again. This kind of thing never seems to be put to rest once and for all, so it is incumbent on us now, here, this time.

Sebastian said...

"protect British Jews"

That would be nice. But it's a little harder after you import millions of Muslims.

dbp said...

A country can allow immigration from barbarous lands, but only if the prevailing culture in the land is confident in its superiority. If this is the case, they will instill the values of the country into the new arrivals and will remain civilized. If it's not the case, then the country will become as barbarous as the places the new arrivals are from.

The Crack Emcee said...

Big Mike said...

… she ran past the broken glass of a kosher cafe’s windows …

The return of Kristallnacht! No need to fly to Germany and time travel back 85 years.

Please. You can go to France almost any day of the week and see that. Cemeteries covered in swastikas - all that. When is everyone going to start entering the 21st-century and describing a world I recognize?

Quaestor said...

“Diversity is our strength,” that was the mantra on every pair of progressive lips. However, I always suspected the pronoun didn’t include the Jews.

Let’s be clear about one thing, the issue isn’t the land, it’s Jews. Even when Zionism consisted of a handful of settlers who bought land with gold, there were Palestinian Muslims demanding their blood.

The Crack Emcee said...

iowan2 said...

"Are we still going to pretend we don't know WHO we have to hide our identity from? I'm speaking of course about 80% of college students."

Yes, kids right out of high school. Those are the enemy. This shit pops up on their radar, they look into it, and come away with a view that doesn't fit what you think. What does that mean? All the CEOs get together and say they'll never hire them.

SMART - and those CEOs are obviously proving what knee-jerk assholes "the good guys" are like.

Gusty Winds said...

In America the wide open southern border has a few low morality motivators. Democrats want to import votes. Businesses want cheap labor...since there are so many necessary jobs Americans will no longer perform. None of this is really for the benefit on the immigrant.

But what is the motivation for Western Europe to import all these Middle East refugees? Are they working factories? Installing roofs? What are they adding?

The Crack Emcee said...

Dave Begley said...

“We will liberate the land.”
“By any means necessary.”

I guess that means beheading babies.

You guys go wild about beheading babies while Israel is crushing an entire city.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

The faces of some of the children who were murdered... brutally massacred....

Because leftwing Jew hate, Islamic Jew hate and Biden's Iran money - are real.

The Crack Emcee said...

An entire city that's mostly women and children

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

"Daily reminder ...

The world has gone to hell under Joe Biden."

-Said everyone on the interweb - except loyal Maddowists.

The Crack Emcee said...

Aggie said...

"Having just toured a Nazi SS prison and concentration camp this past summer, and felt the anguish within its walls as we had the living facility's conditions related to us, one can only conclude that the old evil is up and walking again."

That's a dumb conclusion, after we've already been through that.

"This kind of thing never seems to be put to rest once and for all, so it is incumbent on us now, here, this time."

Right. We've already had a war and it didn't go away but now you're gonna have another one to make sure it does? Here's the truth: You guys can't tell a story and you're gonna kill everybody who admits that.

cassandra lite said...

French authorities and Austrian authorities long ago advised Jewish citizens to not look identifiably Jewish in public.

Saw a tweet yesterday that perfectly summarized it: "Never Again means never again will we allow Germany to kill 6 million Jews between the years 1933 and 1945."

cassandra lite said...

French authorities and Austrian authorities long ago advised Jewish citizens to not look identifiably Jewish in public.

Saw a tweet yesterday that perfectly summarized it: "Never Again means never again will we allow Germany to kill 6 million Jews between the years 1933 and 1945."

Ironclad said...

“Community cohesion” was the buzzword in the UK that made the police into agents of the Gestapo to protect the ROP from any possible slights, including turning blind eyes to the mass gang rapes of underage teens ( thousands). The adherents of the ROP quickly figured out their immune status and play the race card continually. The only group that seems to push back are the Indian Hindu natives - both groups love a good fight. And the majority white population is so cowed that they just stay back and watch the rot.

But the numbers don’t lie - the Muslims have the larger vote share so the Jews don’t count anymore.

Dave Begley said...

As Victor Davis Hanson has written, no multi-racial democracy has ever worked for a long time.

When the former minority becomes the majority, it will crush their former "oppressors." That's what happened in South Africa. And, yes, I know that Blacks always had more people than whites, but the whites ran the show.

England is lost. We are next.

Larry J said...

The Labour Party opened the UK for mass immigration because they wanted to change the populace to be less "British". Looks like they succeeded beyond their likely expectations.

JK Brown said...

The gnostic religion of the National Socialists, race-based socialism, is alive even as in those who profess Islam. They are knowingly or not in the cult of the dialectic that is the basis of Marxism, Fascism and National Socialism. And the basis is that Jews are a threat to civilization so must be removed. Israel has been and will continue to be a direct refutation of this belief. More so because Israel is the most successful society in the Levant currently.

This British podcaster, TIKhistory, does academic level work on WWII and in recent years the true origins of the Nazi/Aryan religion.

https://youtu.be/y011Pdrb3Sk

rcocean said...

Is JK Rowlings Jewish or married to a Jew?

If so, her attitude would be understandable.

rcocean said...

IRC, during Brexit a bunch of wealthy jews sued to overturn the vote in the UK supreme court. They got their names redacted because they feared "antismemitic" attacks. And Corbyn was run out of the Labour party for not being Pro-Israel.

Evidently, its tough for Jews in the UK. But then antisemitism is at an all-time high in the USA.

rcocean said...

Maybe the UK needs an ADL, and someone like J. Greenblatt to monitor the press and culture and weed out possible antisemites. Even Elon Musk has to bow down to him. He could do the same in the UK, if they'd give him a chance.

robother said...

But the food scene in London is so much more interesting! Talk about selling your birthright for a mess of pottage.

Jamie said...

And, once again, we get Jews saying "never again", while blacks are being askedwhen are we going to forget about everything?

That's right, Crack. We're going to put y'all back in chains - which would be the equivalent of forgetting the "never again" that applies to slavery and Jim Crow, just to be clear.

Come on, man.

Amadeus 48 said...

I'd say that Britain has imported its antisemitism over the last 30 years. Is diversity their strength?

Iman said...

“And, once again, we get Jews saying "never again", while blacks are being askedwhen are we going to forget about everything?”

Where are Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee when you need them!?!?

Zavier Onasses said...

Dave Begley @ 7:23am: "Reports that Israel is going to starve Gaza out. After they are out of food, then move in."

Cortez and the Siege of Tenochtitlan (following the Noche Triste). Not one stone atop another.

Ironclad said...

“Community cohesion” was the buzzword in the UK that made the police into agents of the Gestapo to protect the ROP from any possible slights, including turning blind eyes to the mass gang rapes of underage teens ( thousands). The adherents of the ROP quickly figured out their immune status and play the race card continually. The only group that seems to push back are the Indian Hindu natives - both groups love a good fight. And the majority white population is so cowed that they just stay back and watch the rot.

But the numbers don’t lie - the Muslims have the larger vote share so the Jews don’t count anymore.

BUMBLE BEE said...

It's here.
Wait for it.
You voted for it?

The Cracker Emcee Refulgent said...

"and protect British Jews."

This requires a pledge? It isn't a given among British politicians?

Wa St Blogger said...

And, once again, we get Jews saying "never again", while blacks are being askedwhen are we going to forget about everything?

Are you neighbors declaring that their god requires them to enslave you or have your neighbors denounced slavery abhorrent? Are you in constant threat from one group of people who think the only good black is an enslaved black?

you have false equivalency here. Israel's "never again" is a desire to never be dependent on anti-semites to be benevolent to them. They desire their own country, free from the threat of extermination.

When the UN partitioned the lad in 1947, the Jews were jubilant, the Arabs angry. The Arabs began attacking Jews and then there was the full on war of 5 Arab nations against Israel. There are still groups dedicated to the extermination of the state of Israel. Tell me that you live under such a threat.

From wikipedia:

"The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, also known as the First Arab–Israeli War, followed the civil war in Mandatory Palestine as the second and final stage of the 1948 Palestine war. It formally began following the end of the British Mandate for Palestine at midnight on 14 May 1948; the Israeli Declaration of Independence had been issued earlier that day, and a military coalition of Arab states entered the territory of British Palestine in the morning of 15 May."

Rusty said...

"You guys go wild about beheading babies while Israel is crushing an entire city."
War sucks. Doesn't it. The lesson here is; If you don't want your cities crushed don't make war on innocent women and children. People whos women and children are killed don't like it.
Beheading babies is wrong. One of the most wrongest things you can do. Ever. If you don't want to be hunted down like an animal and killed in the most gruesome of ways, don't behead babies.
I shouldn't have to post this. You should just know. Your parents should have said something.

Robert Cook said...

"Tribalism is a recipe for disaster.

"People should stay in their own countries."


You condemn tribalism in one statement and urge tribalism in the next.

Why do you think people might feel compelled to migrate to other nations? The wealthy do so just to enjoy new surroundings, or to invest their excess riches in more fruitful tax environments. The non-wealthy usually are in search of better prospects--be it opportunity for better education, jobs, income, living conditions, etc. Among this cohort are the desperate, fleeing inhospitable or intolerable conditions in their own homelands, (either man-made or nature-made), seeking freedom from starvation and/or violent oppression.

"We must close our borders and radically reduce legal immigration for 50 years. Only the best should be allowed in."

Our borders are closed. That is why those persons who manage to get through without being apprehended (a minority of those attempting to cross the borders) are "illegal immigrants," rather than just "immigrants."

What do you mean by "Only the best should be allowed in"? How is that determined? What are the criteria? What makes you think there are no criteria already that determine decisions to approve or deny legal admission to our country for those seeking it?

Wa St Blogger said...

An entire city that's mostly women and children

Gaza is not a city. The territory is not majority women.

Sex ratio
at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female

0-14 years: 1.05 male(s)/female

15-64 years: 0.99 male(s)/female

65 years and over: 1.15 male(s)/female

total population: 1.02 male(s)/female (2023 est.)



They are young as an aggregate because of a high birth rate.

Gaza birth rate is 27.2/1000. US is 12.0/1000

Iman said...

Well said, Rusty @9:55am!

The Drill SGT said...

THANK LABOR

for importing a new set of voter/colonists

TreeJoe said...

As one commenter suggested above, there's a really simple - albeit brutal - way to address this.

People with evil intent need to feel fear. People who are inclined to attack people walking down the street need to fear immediate overwhelming retaliation.

Neighborhood protection is a common concept worldwide of communities who feel at risk, exposed, and unprotected by society.

Even without guns and knives, you can easily create some basic blunt weaponry and have roving groups of strong young men whose mission is to deter opportunistic attacks.

When government fails to provide for safety, the answer isn't to petition government: The answer is to protect yourselves and your communities immediately.

The Drill SGT said...

THANK LABOR

for importing a new set of voter/colonists

Abdul Abulbul Amir said...


Those Jews in the UK need a second amendment. Gun control enabled mass shootings. The Einsatzgruppen and Hamas both benefited by having unarmed victims.

JAORE said...

Is JK Rowlings Jewish or married to a Jew?

If so, her attitude would be understandable.

How about:

Is J.K. Rowlings a human being?
If so, her attitude would be understandable.

Jamie said...

You guys go wild about beheading babies while Israel is crushing an entire city.

As has been stated, not a city - let's call it a territory.

"We guys," like anyone with a moral bone in her body including you, Crack, as I am confident you are not pro- beheading babies, "go wild" about beheading babies while Israel is "crushing an entire territory" that spawned and supported and continues to support the horrors calling themselves human who targeted and beheaded babies, targeted and gang-raped women, targeted and kidnapped grandmothers, targeted and burned alive families. I don't for a second believe that you actually believe the moral-equivalency BS you're peddling here.

What's going on with you? What's your goal here?

Old and slow said...

Crack is boring and nowhere near as smart as he believes himself to be. He also seems to be off his meds.

Scotty, beam me up... said...

I don’t call “Progressives” by this “preferred pronoun”. Instead, I call them “Regressives”. Why? Because their politics/policies want to regress us to the past, whether it’s failed economic policies and political philosophies (i.e. Marxism / Communism) or Anti-Semitism. The Regressive teachers in high schools and colleges / universities are indoctrinating our country’s youth in these philosophies. Hence, we, those of us who witnessed what had happened in the world before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, are seeing with disgust what the Gen Z’ers and Millennials are doing with their protests and social media posting in supporting terrorists as victims of Israel. This attitude in the young came greatly out in the open in the summer of 2020 over domestic issues and continues with the Anti-Semitism of the past week. I wouldn’t be surprised if our country’s youth have been indoctrinated to be Holocaust deniers in addition to being Anti-Semites.

Oligonicella said...

Robert Cook said...

Our borders are closed.

Oh, bullshit, Cook.

Scotty, beam me up... said...

“The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, a made up work of fiction about the Jewish people, was used as a teaching tool in Nazi Germany to indoctrinate their youth in the 1930’s until the downfall of Nazi Germany in 1945. In that era, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, a virulent anti-Semite Muslim holy leader who admired Hitler and the Nazis, made required teaching of Muslim children in schools in his jurisdiction “ The Protocols of the Elders of Zion”. I have read in the Palestinian areas of control that this is still the case. I wouldn’t be surprised if this were the case in the rest of the Muslim world as well. While the Gaza strip contains many civilians that Hamas uses as human shields, keep in mind that many of these civilians have the indoctrinated hate against Jews that the Hamas terrorists have and their children are being trained to be future replacements for the Hamas terrorists with this work of fiction central in their ideological training.

Temujin said...

Jews today have had to hide their identities in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and even been asked to do so in Brooklyn and Los Angeles at times. The young have to hide their identities on virtually every US college campus. I've read the comments coming from all sides on this blog over the past few days. There are a lot of ignorant comments going on here, spoken by people who don't know what they are talking about. Not just on this post, but on many of the posts since this began. But I have to say that there are also some that I may not agree with, but have strong points.

That said, I'll simply say this. When I was young, I told my dad I was an atheist (I have since changed). But at that time, this man, who had already lived through the years of the Holocaust, had literally fought Nazis with the US Army, dealt with antisemitism in his life and work back in Detroit, told me very bluntly that it didn't matter what I thought. The world at some point would come at me because I am a Jew.

He was, of course, right. I dealt with the antisemites in my neighborhood as a kid, got into fights- but back then, many of us did that. All the ethnic groups got called names back then. We'd have our scuffles but eventually many became friends. But...this is different today. This is back to reality in Europe, in the US, and certainly now, in Israel. And once again, we find ourselves fighting for our lives while the world holds opinion-fests.

Me, personally, after having visited Israel and experienced the people and the land, their love of life and the land so rich with history it draws millions from all over the world every year just to experience it, I understand both the need for a land for the Jews, and the need to defend it at all costs. In the end, we're the only ones we can count on. And while we love our friends and accept help, we know what we have to do this time around. We didn't start it. But now we have to end it.

By the way, the suggestion that Jews should just buy up land in South Carolina is so ridiculous I don't even know where to begin. I'd suggest to that person to visit Israel in a time of peace. Then get back to me.

Mike (MJB Wolf) said...

I read an account of a 20-something female in Gaza, "At first we were ecstatic!" Google that quote and see for yourself.

Her larger train of thought can be paraphrased thus (and if you don't like my transliteration just read her words for yourself, that quote gets in right away on google): At first we were ecstatic about our freedom fighters doing what they did and showing the world on social media how strong Hamas is. It was a victory for Palestine. Then we found out they were bringing hostages back here and we all went "oh shit!"

She is not an outlier. She is not a radical. She is the typical Palestinian. They vote for Hamas because this is what Hamas promised to do. They teach their children to hate because this what Palestinians do. Mothers pray their sons will be martyrs. There is no comparison to civilized countries, like Israel.

n.n said...

Without a universe unto ourselves, a wicked solution was tendered.

n.n said...

South Africa

Mandela and Xhosa conspiring with the transnatiomals against native South Africans and Zulu. Social justice for natural resources.

The Crack Emcee said...

JK Brown said...

"This British podcaster, TIKhistory, does academic level work on WWII and in recent years the true origins of the Nazi/Aryan religion."

I've seen all that. It's a wonder to me that you guys don't talk about it until now.

mikee said...

Jews are canaries in the coal mine of civilization. Who in their right mind kills those canaries?

Free Manure While You Wait! said...

"you can easily create some basic blunt weaponry "

My garage is full of stuff like that. Axes, pickaxes, pitchforks, sling blades (some call it a Keiser knife), etc.

RigelDog said...

Can you just imagine the public outcry, the solidarity marches, if any other group that is in favor with the Left were to find they could not walk to school in peace and safety?

rcocean said...

Jews today have had to hide their identities in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Belgium, France, Italy, and even been asked to do so in Brooklyn and Los Angeles at times.

If I was a Jew, I'd move to Israel, its really the only safe place. Well, that or Washington DC. Biden's cabinet seems pretty safe. Or Hollywood. Or Silicon Valley. Or Wall Street. Or the Ivy Leagues.

But otherwise, Tel Aviv.

pchuck1966 said...

Would our leftist friends in one of those academic departments that ends in "studies" and includes the word "intersectionality" in its course catalog consider this type of behavior a micro-aggression or a macro-aggression?

iowan2 said...


Crack Emcee says
Yes, kids right out of high school. Those are the enemy.

Demonstrating the absurdity by being absurd

But the people that find a solution to their problem in decapitating infants, have to get indoctrinated, don't they? They don't one day decide to pick up a machete and start looking for infants. Yet these collage students are defending that precise action, as a means to an end.

WWIII Joe Biden, Husk-Puppet + America's Putin said...

Now that Biden imported sleeper cells - most assuredly - we will all be targets for random assassination by anti-human Nazi scum.

but Obama and biden and their cronies are wealthy. Be happy, leftists.

Check out Denver Douchebag - he actually gets votes.

Dave Begley said...

Temujin

Thanks for writing that.

Hope you don't think my comments have been idiotic.

Jamie said...

If I was a Jew, I'd move to Israel, its really the only safe place. Well, that or Washington DC. Biden's cabinet seems pretty safe. Or Hollywood. Or Silicon Valley. Or Wall Street. Or the Ivy Leagues.

But otherwise, Tel Aviv.


And there we have it: covetousness, the true root of all evil. I hope you're just mouthing Jews-have-it-so-good platitudes, because if you're not, such a statement suggests that your soul - in a non-religious sense too, the essence of you - is at mortal risk of self-destruction. Envy is more corrosive than hydrofluoric acid. Reject it.

Owen said...

Time to consider unconventional means of defense. What can a Brit schoolchild legally carry? Or, more usefully, what is expressly barred?

Rocco said...

Robert Cook said...
“Our borders are closed.”

Dammit, Karine, you’re supposed to post from the President Biden account, NOT the Robert Cook account.

Big Mike said...

@Crack, I guess you missed the point of my tying Progressives to the policies of 85 years ago. Progress! Forward into the middle of the last century!

I’ll try to be more obvious next time, for the benefit of the oblivious.

For those who are interested, yes I did see “Finian’s Rainbow.”