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| Britain |
| The new anti-Semitism: How the Left reversed history to bring Judaism under attack |
| 2007-07-12 |
| When I went to address a ladies' charity lunch at a synagogue in Finchley, I was astonished at the level of security. You don't expect to see bouncers in black bomber jackets on the door at a place of worship. I soon discovered this wasn't unusual. Nor is it confined to London. The Chief Constable of Greater Manchester, Mike Todd, took me out on patrol with his officers and members of the Community Security Trust, which provides protection for the Jewish community. These patrols are mounted every Friday night following a series of unprovoked attacks on Jews on their way to synagogue. We passed a care home surrounded by barbed wire. At the King David School, there are high fences, floodlights, CCTV cameras and fulltime guards. It was the kind of security you associate with a prison. They're even installing bombproof windows in many prominent Jewish institutions and running evacuation drills. 'We know that people carry out hostile reconnaissance. You do know that there will be attacks potentially and so what we're trying to do is make it a hostile environment to those people who want to engage in anti-Semitic attacks.' In the past two years, Manchester police reported a 20 per cent rise in anti-Semitic incidents. I visited a Jewish cemetery in the north of the city which has been repeatedly desecrated - headstones and graves smashed, swastikas daubed on memorials. It was heartbreaking. That type of cowardly vandalism is almost certainly the handiwork of Far Right skinheads. But the more serious threat comes from Islamist extremists. Police and the security services say they have uncovered a series of plots by groups linked to Al Qaeda to attack Jewish targets in Britain. As Channel 4's own Undercover Mosque documentary exposed earlier this year, anti-Jewish sermons are routinely preached in Britain. Anti-Semitic hatred is beamed in on satellite TV channels and over the internet... |
| Posted by:Nimble Spemble |
| #5 Any Brits who would actually care are too busy worrying about terror to be concerned about how Jews are treated. |
| Posted by: PlanetDan 2007-07-12 22:51 |
| #4 Lefties love collectivism. Anti-semitism is the collective shame of the human race... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2007-07-12 18:38 |
| #3 In the other news: Sun rises in the East. |
| Posted by: gromgoru 2007-07-12 18:20 |
| #2 Britain, back to its old ways. |
| Posted by: Perfesser 2007-07-12 17:28 |
| #1 So the young nazi muslims are on the march... |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2007-07-12 17:05 |