OPINION: Does everyone see the problem now?
The canary in the coalmine has been murdered - Britain is choking on the poison in its air
I try not to be a hysterical Jew, but at the same time, I am aware that I am only here because my ancestors knew when to leave. All my grandpa’s family, who stayed in Poland, were murdered in the Holocaust.
The plus is that we have a Prime Minister who at least says he is against antisemitism. We are not in Nazi Germany.
But saying the right thing isn’t the same as doing the right thing.
So Keir Starmer has suddenly decided that the chant ‘from the river to the sea’ when chanted at anti-Israel demonstrations is antisemitism, but he’s been Prime Minister for more than a year, and it’s chanted every week. Does that mean he’s ok with antisemitic marches?
In the meantime, he, like so many in our establishment, spread the poison. He and his government consistently swallowed and regurgitated Hamas propaganda about what was happening in Gaza and then awarded the terrorist group for its 7 October massacre by announcing the recognition of a Palestinian state.
The Foreign Office drew up a map of this Palestinian state, which included the holiest Jewish sites in Jerusalem. The British consulate based in Jerusalem couldn’t decide whether it was in Israel or Palestine, so it took the whole address off the map.
At the same time as fans of the Maccabi Tel Aviv football team (and many of them will be British-Israelis) were banned from going to Aston Villa, Starmer announced, ‘I will do everything in my power to guarantee Jewish communities the security they deserve.’
My Muslim friends are astounded at how naïve the government seems to be about extremist Islam and its marriage with the far left
All of this is both farcical and dangerous.
Did the Home Secretary really think that announcing more funding to make our schools and synagogues even more like fortresses would be job done?
It’s awful that it took a terrorist attack by an Islamic extremist and the death of two men at the Heaton Park synagogue for people realising we weren’t being hysterical. But they still aren’t addressing the problem.
Let’s please look at the problem. Britain is the central hub of the Muslim Brotherhood in Europe. We allow hate preachers to spread their poison through our mosques. We now have four MPs who were elected on a Gaza war ticket, and now we see the effect they and their bedfellows are having on our country.
My Muslim friends are astounded at how naïve the government seems to be about extremist Islam and its marriage with the far left.
Last night I attended an event at the London School of Economics. It was a presentation of a report by the Dinah Project about the sexual violence of 7 October and afterwards by Hamas. Even though the venue wasn’t announced until a few hours before the event, outside were around 100 young people dressed up as terrorists. Academics, students and the feminism society were trying to close down an event about sexual violence in war.
They were screaming, ‘Zionists are not welcome here.’ Inside, I had to go through four different security checks just to get into the room.
This shouldn’t be normal.
All morning I’ve been internally muttering to myself like a nutter, ‘boiling pot, boiling pot’: it is getting too hot. Things feel ever more dangerous.
Enough of platitudes. I want the government and the police to address the problem properly. And the problem isn’t the Jews. It’s the people who want to hurt us.
- Nicole Lampert is a freelance journalist. Read more of her work: https://nicolelampert.substack.com/
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