RUTHFULLY YOURS

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/10/02/britain-has-abandoned-jews-to-this-savagery/

Six minutes. That is all it took for Britain to descend to a new low of infamy, in which Jews are slaughtered at synagogues. A nation whose entire postwar sense of self is bound up with the fight against the Nazis – against militarised anti-Semitism – is now a place where Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, has become stained in the blood of British Jews, brutally murdered by an assailant dressed all in black.

The attack this morning at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue in Crumpsall, at the heart of the Jewish community in the north of Manchester, is by turns horrific and horrifically predictable. A car rammed into congregants, a scumbag emerged and stabbed two dead, before being ‘neutralised’ by armed police as he tried to smash his way through a window, while wearing what appeared to be a suicide vest but may well have been a grotesque prop to his barbarous performance.

Words fail me. Because we have failed Jews. The horror in Crumpsall comes after years of anti-Semitism bubbling up from the depths, while the great and good did little more than spray some air freshener, offering warm words about standing with the Jewish community, while doing naff all else. In which Labour continues to prattle on about ‘Islamophobia’ or the ‘racism’ of Nigel Farage’s visa proposals, while the world’s oldest hatred has staged a barbaric comeback on our streets.

Even before 7 October in Israel – the most deadly assault on Jews since the Holocaust, two years ago this week – British Jews could see what was coming. Even before Hamas sent its killers and rapists into kibbutzim and dance parties, even before Western capitals erupted in jubilation about those apocalyptic incursions, British Jews made up 0.5 per cent of the population and a quarter of the victims of religious hate crimes. Jewish pensioners would be suckerpunched in north London. A Jewish cemetery in Kent was desecrated eight times in 10 years. Security around schools and synagogues became a grim fact of British Jewish life. Meanwhile, we had TV debates about whether it was racist for Boris Johnson to mock the burqa, or Adele to wear her hair in braids and wave a Jamaican flag during Notting Hill Carnival. It shames us.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/27/what-kneecap-said-is-far-worse-than-you-think/

I’m glad the terror case against Kneecap has been thrown out. No one, not even tossers in tea cosies, not even crap rappers in Provo fancy dress, should be dragged to the dock for what they say. Yes, even if what they’ve said is ‘Up Hamas, up Hezbollah’. Freedom of speech must include the freedom to gush over neo-fascists. The liberty to utter is meaningless if it doesn’t cover the liberty of lowlifes to sing the praises of armies of anti-Semites. It’s gross, I know, but speech often is. Better that we trust ourselves to handle vile ideas than that we invite the state to infantilise us by reprimanding those we find offensive.

Here’s the main reason I’m happy the case collapsed: because now the court with real moral authority – the court of public opinion – can do its job. We don’t need wizened judges to tell us which ideas are ‘good’ and which are ‘bad’. We can decide for ourselves, through free, frank debate. And in the case of Kneecap, that’s exactly what we should do. The state’s case against them may have withered on a technicality, but the court of public opinion’s judgment upon these darlings of the Israelophobic bourgeoisie should be ferocious indeed.

It was band member Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (aka Mo Chara) who found himself in court. He was charged with expressing support for a proscribed terror group following the emergence of footage showing him holding up the Hezbollah flag at a gig in London in November 2024. Footage also showed the band hollering ‘Up Hamas, up Hezbollah!’ to the glee of the Israel-hating rich kids in their audience. Today, the chief magistrate at Woolwich Crown Court decreed that the charges against Mo Chara were ‘null’ because they were not brought within the statutory time limit.

Now that the state has finally butted out of this speech-related scandal, we the people can have our say. I’ll kick it off: what Kneecap said is even worse than you think. They didn’t just wave the Hezbollah flag, which would have been sickening enough given Hezbollah is an avowedly racist movement devoted to violently excising the ‘cancerous’ Jews from the Middle East and pushing them back to ‘Germany, or wherever they come from’. No, they also smiled – smiled – following the worst mass murder of Jews since the Holocaust.

For two years now, Kneecap have openly flirted with the ideologues of violent Israelophobia. On 8 October 2023, just hours after Hamas raped and butchered more than a thousand Jews in southern Israel, they posted a beaming pic of themselves on social media. ‘Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle’, they said, sporting wide grins and with a Palestine flag hanging in the background. As Jewish grandmothers were being dragged into dank tunnels in Gaza, as the blackened corpses of young Jews were being disentangled by early responders, Kneecap were smiling. They saw a pogrom and they said ‘Solidarity’.

They said ‘Up Hamas’ just a year after Hamas killed more Jews in one day than anyone else since the Nazis. They said ‘Up Hamas’ after it had been established that Hamas had thrown grenades at Jewish children, had beaten to death young Jewish women and had boasted to their families back in Gaza about how many Jews they had slaughtered with their own hands. They said ‘Up Hamas’, a movement founded with the express aim of exterminating Israel’s Jews, and which as recently as 2021 was inciting people to buy ‘five-shekel knives’ and ‘cut off the heads of Jews’.

One of the Kneecap trio – the one who’s nearly 40 – posed with a book consisting of the collected speeches of Hassan Nasrallah, the late leader of Hezbollah. This is a book that refers to Jews as the ‘descendants of apes and pigs’.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21922/free-university-of-brussels

The climate of hatred and intimidation is so pervasive that, according to them, it is impossible to be Jewish on the ULB campus. One cannot speak or express oneself as Jewish — or simply be Jewish. Just being a Jew is condemned and subjected to violence.

Finally, when Alain Destexhe, long-time Belgian Senator, sought to shed light on this choice by pointing to demographic developments at ULB, citing around twenty first names — without surnames — the university immediately, the same day, filed a complaint against him for “incitement to hatred”. It is questionable how the observation of a demographic evolution — neither good nor bad in itself, but simply factual — could be construed as “hateful”. So much for “free inquiry”, the motto of the ULB.

Out of conviction or cowardice, the Free University of Brussels seems to have chosen the path of complicity with Islamist anti-Semitism.

Voices are now calling on the Belgian authorities and the European Union (notably within the Erasmus program) to take the necessary measures, including the complete withdrawal of funding.

The Free University of Brussels (ULB) has been making headlines in Europe. Law students decided to name their class after Rima Hassan, a French Islamist politician known for her anti-Semitic positions and her apologetics for Hamas and other terrorist organizations. That decision came against the backdrop of countless attacks and threats targeting Jewish students on the Brussels campus.

Has the ULB become a breeding ground for Islamist and anti-Semitic hatred in Europe?

1. Anti-Semitic attacks

May 2024 – Physical assaults against Jewish students at the ULB campus. Jewish students, including the president of the Union of Jewish Students in Belgium, were attacked by pro-Palestinian demonstrators. The victims were first insulted, then beaten. Israel’s ambassador to Belgium, Idit Rosenzweig Abu, shared a video of the attack. Incredibly, campus security removed the Jewish students — the victims, not the aggressors — from the premises “for their own safety”, without immediately intervening against the attackers. Hundreds of people then demonstrated to denounce this gratuitous and indiscriminate anti-Semitic violence.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/britain-now-treating-israel-enemy-173126243.htm

Speaking at a press conference last week in which he announced sanctions against Israel, Pedro Sánchez, the Spanish prime minister, bemoaned not having any nuclear weapons – because it meant he couldn’t use them to threaten Israel.

It’s certainly true that neither Sir Keir Starmer nor any member of the British Government has yet threatened the Israelis with nuclear apocalypse.

But every week brings another example of how, under Labour, Israel is now being treated as an enemy state. Today we learn that the Royal College of Defence Studies will no longer accept students from Israel, the first time it has barred Israelis since that nation’s creation in 1948.

As Amir Baram, the director general of Israel’s defence ministry (who studied at the college) put it in a letter to the  Ministry of Defence, the ban on Israelis is “a profoundly dishonourable act of disloyalty to an ally at war” and a “disgraceful break with Britain’s proud tradition of tolerance – and plain decency”.

For decades Israel has been a key ally of the UK and vice versa. Our military cooperation has been intense, to the huge benefit of both nations, and Israeli intelligence has been pivotal in preventing terror attacks here. But while no formal announcement has been made, it is clear that the Government has decided from day one that those decades as allies are now over. 

From the very beginning of its time in office it has treated Israel not as an ally fighting a proxy war on behalf of the West to defeat Islamist terror, but as a rogue state to be punished. Within weeks it restored UK taxpayer funding to Unrwa, the UN aid body some of whose employees were reportedly found to have taken part in the October 7 2023 Hamas massacre; it blocked the export of some arms to Israel; and it backed the ICC’s arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the former Israeli defence minister.

And, most perniciously, in July Sir Keir Starmer pledged to recognise a Palestinian state if there was no ceasefire in Gaza – in effect rewarding the terror group for its massacre, and explicitly refusing to make this conditional on the release of the remaining hostages.

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Last week a survey showed that more than one in five Britons now hold or agree with anti-Semitic views. This number has doubled in less than five years.

When it comes to Jew-hate in Britain much of the focus has been on London. You can understand why. It was in London that groups of men gathered to celebrate on 7 October even whilst the Hamas massacre of Jews was taking place. It was in London where mass marches have included those openly waving antisemitic signs and showing support for murderous terrorist organisations. It was in the capital too where Jewish children were advised to hide the insignia on their school uniforms.

Yet more focus is needed on Britain’s smaller Jewish communities dotted around the country. These communities are even more vulnerable and isolated when it comes to the rise of antisemitism.

In Bournemouth last month a Jewish child was shot in the head with an air-gun. Before firing the weapon the suspect is alleged to have shouted obscenities at the child as he walked to a synagogue wearing a skullcap.

Let that sink in for a moment. A child allegedly shot in the head for being Jewish. One might expect a violent incident like this to lead to serious national soul-searching, but it seems that antisemitism is becoming so embedded in British society that an attack of this nature causes little outcry and limited national reporting.

Just down the coast in Brighton, the Jewish community has been experiencing a persistent wave of antisemitic abuse. Local Jewish residents tell me of a poisonous litany of hate crimes and destruction, with a local memorial to victims of the 7 October pogrom under consistent attack.

The memorial has been vandalised over fifty times. Jews visiting the memorial have faced chants of “die die”, with gun gestures pointed at the back of their heads. Faeces has been left on the ‘book of the dead’. Swastikas and Holocaust denial graffiti have been plastered nearby. It is only due to the dedication of the local Jewish community that each time the memorial is destroyed it is re-built with love and care.