Jewish volunteer ambulances set on fire outside London synagogue in apparent anti-Semitic attack

Life's a b**** and then you die.

It's moments like this that one can sympathize with Ye Wenjie's call for the TriSolaran's to invade Earth.

Also because things are peaceful for a couple decades and people assume that’s somehow the new normal.

Completely agree. Pick any year in history and you can find something fucked up going on.

Partly, in the last few years think tank groups have been working very hard and click bait media(previously news) has been extra uncaring on it's effect on the public. Mix that with doom scrolling and even more people online and it's starting to get worse.

That was true 10 years ago. Not now. We are not in a peaceful era.

Oh come on. Before Trump it wasn’t this bad. And we were just as globalized and information travelled just as fast.

While true and I do agree, the existential stakes are higher than in most if not all prior chaos eras and our ability to be blissfully ignorant is lower than in any other point in history. I'm torn between wanting to find some comfort in the fact that the world has always been chaotic but also not wanting to normalize the unique and existential crises of today.

Can I commit hate crimes against Muslims because of Al-Shabaab?

And what does that have to do with an entirely separate group of people in another freaking country? Jews are not a monolith of zionists. There is nothing anyone can do to justify an attack like this, let alone on an ambulance that helps anyone in need. Those ambulances serve the entire community not just Jewish people

Yes, and? My comment stands. Destroying ambulances is fucked, regardless of who does it

And weirdly enough, it's bad when they do it. That's the point.

That does not make this Ok. These people were innocents, and if you blame all for the actions of some, something is wrong with you. Edit: Typo

You are the whole problem. No one is talking about israel right now.

Oh. That makes sense. So, by this logic, we can all set fire to ambulances because why the f*** not. Cool

Kind of wild that in response to an anti-Semitic attack in London, you bring up the Israeli defense force.

That makes this ok?

No one said that the IDF is sane. Not sure why you think that devalues the post you replied to.

That’s a stupid conspiracy theory. Take your racism elsewhere. 

Palestinians should get f****** lost then I suppose

>Passover is coming up, and I’m sure theres gonna be more hate crimes during that time. I hope you're wrong but I fear you're probably right.

I saw this recently: I just want to be clear — I love Irish people. I’m just against Irish nationalism. Irish people are great so long as they don’t support the existence of Ireland. That’s fascist! Irish people  are fully a part of the West, and can celebrate their culture and history wherever they live, what do they need a state for? Just because they 'had' one a thousand years ago? As early as the 900s the land was already inhabited mainly by vikings and people from the british isles anyways, the idea of a historical 'ireland' for the irish people is re-writing history.  'Ireland' is a white supremacist, Celtic supremacist, and Catholic supremacist theocratic ethnostate. Did you know they give out passports just for being able to prove ancestry? It only exists because nationalist fascists believed they deserved the land only for themselves, and all english or even irish protestants, who had lived there for centuries, were not welcome in this state. They started a war in which killed where a significant amount of the casualties were english or protestant, and they forced 40,000 people out to establish their state, whose descendants are still refugees, and will continue to be refugees in perpetuity until the Irish state ceases to exist and they can return to their homes. Why can’t there be one state in the British Isles? Why do Irish Catholics need their own state that privileged Irish Catholics over other people? From the Ocean to the Sea, the British Isles will be FREE! Some people may think this is anti-Irish, but criticism of Irish nationalism is not anti-Celticism. People always say that criticism of Ireland is anti-Celtic. But why can’t I criticize the Irish state for existing? They can go back to Boston...

A racist friend of yours

"The untouchables" is what I've been seeing a lot lately. People making the classic antisemitic comment of "you can criticize and/or be bigoted towards x,y,z, but there's one group that gets you banned as soon as you bring them up. Hmmmmmm 🤔🤔🤔"

Yup. I've seen that, too. Lots. Deeply disturbing behavior.

It didn’t shift, it just disturbingly balanced. It’s still a far-right thing but is now a far-left thing too.

I think it's on both sides. If anything, far left antisemitism is even more insidious in my view: at least the far-right TELL you they're antisemitic; the far-left hide it under a veil of 'human rights' and 'advocacy' (but these human rights don't apply to the Jewish community, obviously).

A lot of that can be blamed on TikTok pushing the Gaza content so heavily people were hooked on the outrage p*** once Hamas and their supporters understood that Westerners would be hooked on the high of being outraged over seeing gory videos and photos. People damn lost their minds in ways that they didn't in any other war before not even the Ukraine war because Ukrainians don't publish uncensored photos and videos of the war dead. I know people that became hysterical after awhile getting hooked on all that content.

Yeah, the far right was always the political side that was anti semitic. Since the 7th october attack this has shifted towards the left.

If it is Islamic terrorism that’s responsible, that is still far right. Just compare the taliban to what right wing evangelicals want. They line up very well.

Yea how fucked up do you need to be to attack ambulances, simply because they are from a Jewish group. Way too many dipshits on this site doing whataboutism too

Like, if someone acrually pretends to believe they are just "an anti zionist" (aka hate fkr only half of the worlds Jewish population and the vast overwhelming majority of Jews who support them) Wouldn't an attack againat Jews abroad be the oerfecr opportunity to show that distinction? Because with wvery single one of the recent terror attacks I've seen A LOT of excusing, blaming it on Israel and even mocking it

The medieval English made antisemitism royal policy lol

Funnily enough, Jews in England were persecuted because they weren't "white". Now they're being persecuted because they're "white".

And then after that it really wasn’t great even into the 1940s. There’s some really horrific stories and accounts of Jews being mistreated during the blitz, not to mention the rise of Britains own fascism before the war and the neo-fascists/neo-nazis in the 70s and 80s. Jews weren’t fully emancipated in the UK until 1858 (you could even argue into the early 1870s with on the books discrimination and exclusion from certain realms of society. Sam Aronow has some great videos on this: https://youtu.be/dFdpPCl3nOI?si=WUnc-oPXBT3lunmH https://youtu.be/kOU_ryMCIXk?si=fwjWvtY16zV5bG_b J. Draper as well talks a little about antisemitism in Britain during the Blitz: https://youtu.be/E8lMnZ_Rlxg?si=6YBd6XSl8LKbSg9L

Not to nitpick, but 180 years ago... I hate it here, I need to take a break.

I also don't know how high and mighty they can get considering how poorly the Romani are treated and have been treated across Europe for a very long time. Moving on from targeting another race doesn't mean you used to be less racist.

POC American here. I was thinking the same thing as I read that comment. Isn’t Europe well known for its antisemitism? Isn’t part of the reason for the state of Israel is because after WW2 Europeans didn’t want to take in Jewish refugees?

>You don't see Jew hatred because you like it when it's pointed in specific directions. This is true of British racism in general. The entire British economy is built on the blood and bone of the Global South more so than almost any other country in Europe. The systemic r*** and murder of POC by the British really does rival the US, and yet because it was largely not something done in the home islands, they will pretend they were free of all guilt. If the value (and proceeds) extracted from the Empire was returned to its rightful land, the British people would be the poorest nation on Earth.

It’s because they want Jews dead, regardless of Palestine

That's because Palestine is just a scapegoat used to attack Jewish people with

Native Europeans are perfectly capable of being just as antisemitic as any immigrant, they can even set new records.

I’m Jewish, and don’t endorse us being used for xenophobia!

Exactly. I'm unsure why people are struggling to understand this