Anti-Semitic attacks in the UK have increased by nearly 70 per cent in the last year, according to the Community Security Trust.
Desecrated Jewish graveyard
The CST recorded a record number anti-Semitic attacks carried out against UK’s Jewish community last year – 924 in 2009 up 55% from 546 in 2008.
Some will write off these top-line figures as simply the inevitable consequences of the conflict between Israel and Hamas from December 2008 to February 2009. Certainly, the number of incidents returned to normal rates three months after the intervention ended. But we must all remember that such a conflict, hundreds of miles from Britain, does nothing to legitimise violence, name-calling and graffiti on our streets.
Below the top-line is an important story that Nothing British has written about elsewhere. The authors noted the recent convergence between Islamist and far-right anti-Semitic discourse (and, in a few cases, the far-left). Its authors note:
“One feature of contemporary anti-Semitism is that the use of far-right references is no longer the preserve of neo-Nazis; nor is mention of Israel the Middle East restricted to Muslim or Arab perpetrators of incidents.”
While no one suggests any operational cooperation between the far-right and Islamists, there is an increasingly close ideological proximity on key subjects. It might seem absurd that non-Muslim, white-supremacists would have anything in common with Islamic fundamentalists who regard others as infidels. And vice versa. But both camps have developed strikingly similar critiques on issues of shared concern:-
- Middle East. The BNP’s Middle East policy is an exact replica of the Islamists’ – specifically, the West has waged too many illegal and immoral wars in “Muslim lands” and that the West applies “double standards” towards Israel which has “helped to incite the Muslim world against the West”. The West should withdraw its troops from these Muslim lands immediately. (The two camps also share views on American “imperialism”).
- Contemporary culture. Nick Griffin’s ultra-nationalist view on modernity are very similar to Anjem Choudury’s. Griffin describes it as “a rootless mass of Americanised consumers, without identity, without pride and without a future.” It creates little more than “Spiritual filth, such as abortion on demand and genocide through integration; cultural filth, like MTV; intellectual filth, like the claim that parliament is sovereign in a land where banks create credit and the mass media create governments; physical filth, like fast foods which have no nutritional value whatsoever.”
- Global Jewish conspiracy. By way of an example, the obsession of the BNP’s Legal Director, Lee Barnes, with a conspiracy of Jews buying political influence and running the world’s financial system and media are strikingly similar to the views of Hamas or Al-Qaeda on the same subject.
- Segregation. Both the BNP and Islamists believe the world should be divided. The neo-racist BNP believes in a “fortress Britain” where white Britons get preferential treatment. Sectarian Islamists want a Caliphate where non-Muslims are second class citizens.
It is worth remembering that British values of fairness, tolerance, freedom of expression and looking out for little guy are under attack, and that those who seek to undermine our way of life often resort to the same arguments. The Jewish community is not the only victims of racial abuse in our society. But the CST’s well-organised collection of anti-Semitic figures act like a canary in a coal mine. And today’s figures suggest that the enemies of the British way of life have rarely been more active or inventive.
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I have to admit to wanting seperation from Islam but in this country it is getting harder & harder to do.
I can’t see the point in being in Islamic countries trying to force democracy on them while they try to force Islam on us here.
It would be interesting to know who presicely is vandalising graves & why.
Only then maybe you can deal with the root cause.
I assume that the CST is a private group or charity run by Jews to protect Jewish interests?
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The picture in that attack happened in 2002.
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Strange if the figures are up why they couldn’t find a more up to date foto.
But a desecrated grave is a desecrated grave I guess, time doesn’t diminish that?
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A number of graves in my local cemetry were desecrated with a green Nike “swoosh”, apparently done with a stencil.
What did it mean? Why, nothing atall, no more than this incident did. The peculiar thing is that anyone thinks it worth commenting on.
Or perhaps there is something worth commenting on, nobody bothers to count or comment on the numbers of “Stars of David” that are sprayed. We might even find these were the 2 most popular graffiti symbols and ponder the similarity of the ethnic nationalism behind them.
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You take down 4 other comments but leave this one, why’s that?
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The moderation seems all over the place, some things gets posted then deleted, other comments sit in moderation for hours even a day.
I sense 2 people working to different standards?
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British values?
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Yes, values of fairness, tolerance, freedom of expression and looking out for little guy.
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Maurice, there’s a space in the cakewalk of comedy with your name on it!
If the Conservatives don’t want you at some point, then Opportunity knocks!
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British values: values of fairness, tolerance, freedom of expression and looking out for little guy.
Are you sure about that?
I’ve never seen those values extended to the BNP, I never seen those values extended to the millions of indigenous peoples we dislodged, disrupted and slaughtered in the heyday of our empire.
And I’ve certainly never seen those values being implemented by the conservative party!
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@ WTF, you free to express your views here. We only delete comments that we think are off topic or racist.
I don’t work for the Conservative Party.
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Thank you Maurice, but I am sorry but nobody here believes that!
This whole site is perceived as an arm or at least an offshoot indirectly promoting Conservative party interests.
If you are truly independent then why pick on other political parties as well as the BNP but never the Conservatives, as has been pointed out by another commentator?
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I just clicked on one of your links & ended up at the “Stormfront” site!
Apparently “Because of high visitor traffic, our servers are overloaded at the moment. Please try again in a few minutes.”
I have never been there before.
Blimey, are you doing that good a job of promoting them?
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What actually constitutes an anti-semetic attack?
If a disgruntled customer calls a jewish businessman a ” tight arsed jew” , for example, is this part of the total figure. Sticks and stones…
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To associate the BNP with a rise in Anti-Semitic attacks within the UK, is yet another lie Mr Cousins, and you know it.
Anti-Semitic attacks have ballooned across Western Europe, and the direct correlation is between Muslim immigration: and you and I are both aware of this. Why do you insist on so clumsily pretending otherwise?
The BNP might secretly hold anti-Semitic views. But they do not preach them, openly, in over 1,500 places every week. This is exactly what happens in the 1,700 mosques in this country, almost every day.
The most Anti-Semitic country in Europe is France (according to C. Caldwell) with nearly 2% of its Jewish population already having emigrated because of it. And it has nothing to do with Le Pen!
In Sweden,
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2010/01/in-malmo-zionism-is-racism.html#readfurther
Germany,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB13y2py0V4
Denmark,
http://islamineurope.blogspot.com/2009/11/denmark-antisemitism-widespread-among.html
and the Netherlands
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsvK5Gko0eM
the story is exactly the same.
Hence the show trial of Geert Wilders. One of Europe’s strongest pro-Israel supporters. And I say show trial because only 3 of his 18 witnesses are being allowed and even they will be heard in closed session.
The idea that the cross-European radical/new Right can hold anti-Semitic views is a truism. But to suggest that it is they who represent the main, pervasive, dangerous, imminent, and actual threat to the life and limb of the Jews of Europe is a staggering deception.
It is presented by Islamic ideology:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ih2gBu-cMI
and the fact that the enforced Multi-Culturalism/Diversity credo in Europe and the UK, effectively bans and censures any criticism of this ideology. The Gates of Vienna blog is a good source for data and translations of primary source material on this issue.
http://gatesofvienna.blogspot.com/2009/07/cultural-enrichment-archives.html
It is the Muslims of the UK that self-evidently pose the greatest threat to the Jews of this country. No BNP member ever strapped on a suicide vest and blew himself up in a Tel Aviv marketplace!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/may/01/israel5
And to pretend otherwise for the sole purpose of damaging the BNP in order to better the Tory party’s electoral chances, is actually, to be frank, rather sickening.
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You can’t condemn anti-semitism and support Geert Wilders. The rhetoric he aims at Muslims is fully as extreme as it would be if he were targetting Jews.
Well, you can condemn anti-semitism and support Wilders, but only if the former is totally hypocritical and more to do with spreading hatred than controlling it.
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Maurice, if Israel and Britain went to war whos side would you take?
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war again,what a re curring theme on these pages!!!but thet re not OBSESSED by it???????
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Unfortunately Sam there is always a war on of some kind.
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Agreed.Does it have to be the national obsession though?
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