Just a fortnight or so ago I was reading an item in a newspaper just as I passed reporting a survey which claimed to have found British people to be more tolerant .
I couldn't help noticing as I passed the synagogue next to my old office that its windows had been heavily reinforced, an entry phone installed and a surveillance camera installed. Enlarge the picture and you will see what I mean. A tolerant society?
Just like I suspected the possibility of a "tolerant Britain" was quickly put to bed. A few days later The Community and Security Trust, which does excellent work in protecting our Jewish citizens, published a report pointing out that last year there was a steep rise in the number of antisemitic incidents:
CST recorded 924 antisemitic
incidents in 2009. This is the
highest annual total since
it began recording antisemitic
incidents in 1984, and is 55
per cent higher than the previous
record of 598 incidents in 2006.
incidents in 2009. This is the
highest annual total since
it began recording antisemitic
incidents in 1984, and is 55
per cent higher than the previous
record of 598 incidents in 2006.
The CST website provides chilling evidence that antisemitism is now a casual part of many children's attitudes. Ilford has a large Jewish population, I know the area fairly well and was working there on a couple of assignments in the last three years. One would have thought that it was one of those places that Jewish people could feel safe. Not so.
Youths at a local secondary school set up a Facebook page promoting hatred against Jews. It quickly attracted 500 members. They boasted about confronting Jews in shops and on the streets and shouting obscenities at them. The page has now been taken down.
Jews are part and parcel of our community. Many of their parents died fighting alongside our parents in our wars.
In a tolerant country they should not live in fear. Nor should they have to turn their places of worship into fortresses.
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Unfortunately, the rewriting of history so that many people now believe that a Palestine Arab nation lived in Israel from pre-historic times, instead of being created ex nihilo by the Egyptian Yasser Arafat, combined with the cultural cringe towards Islam and the Left's hatred of anything to do with God and the result was predicted. Nobody listened.
You'd be surprised at the number of people who do not know that Jesus is Jewish. They think that He is a Christian!
Watch for the Islamic hate mail and the list of Jewish and Israeli 'crimes'.
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