We were treated to yet another display of anti-Semitic hatred on the streets of London over the weekend. It was the National Day of Action for Palestine. According to the blue-haired, bearded and white-robed attendees, Israel is committing genocide against the Gazan people by defending itself against, er, genocidal attacks by the Gazan people. That’s right, ‘Globalise the Intifada’ and ‘From the river to the sea…’ are genocidal slogans chanted to stop Israel’s genocide against the women and children of Gaza. War is certainly peace for the goons of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
The most disturbing aspect of these marches, however, has been the response of our boys and girls in blue. They’ve not only been weak and pathetic in their inadequacy; they’ve also been complicit in threatening and intimidating our Jewish friends and neighbours. Look at the case of Gideon Falter. Back in April this year, he was accused by a Metropolitan Police officer of being ‘openly Jewish’ and, in a statement by Assistant Commissioner Matt Twist after the event, deliberately ‘provocative’ for wearing a kippah skull-cap near a pro-Palestine march. I was led to believe the demonstrations were peaceful protests against the actions of the Jewish state, not unrestrained displays of anti-Semitic prejudice against outward expressions of Jewishness. Falter’s treatment clearly demonstrates the mendacity of this claim.
We should also remember the grotesque spectacle of two Metropolitan Police officers tearing down posters of Israeli hostages still being held in Gazan captivity. This was to ‘prevent escalation’, they said, presumably from those who submit to the religion of peace and object to the release of innocent women and children ripped from their homes and families by blood-thirsty savages in green bandanas. Neither should we forget the Met Police’s reluctance to arrest those who openly support proscribed groups like Hamas and Hizb ut-Tahrir, including the organisers of these marches, many of whom have links with the Islamo-fascists of the Gaza Strip.
I can’t imagine how British Jews feel. They have been confronted with anti-Semitic hate marches on an almost weekly basis since the 7th October atrocities last year. They’ve not only had little to no protection from the police; they’ve also been the victims of institutionalised police racism that privileges Muslims and degrades Jews, all while being told it’s for their own protection.
This really is the definition of gaslighting. Yes, our police officers say, we are discriminating against you (they don’t deny it); we are going to arrest you for wearing a skull-cap and tear down posters of your loved ones, but we’re only doing so for your own good, to protect you from the violent hordes of Islamic fanatics who stand ready to cut your throats if we don’t.
Such logic must evoke a disorienting mix of emotions among our Jewish compatriots – the most prevalent, I suspect, being fear. Discrimination is being rationalised, and it’s being done so using the pervasive language of kindness.
But the Met’s excuse is only a partial explanation for its disgraceful treatment of Britain’s Jewish communities. At root, such discrimination is the perverse consequence of the Metropolitan Police’s wholesale adoption of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) dogma. They are indeed saturated in its poisonous banality. For the first 17 weeks of a new recruit’s induction – according to a freedom of information disclosure for the year to March 2023 – they are the recipients of extensive DEI instruction that includes, among other things, unconscious bias training.
This promotes a toxic identitarianism in which the white man is seen as inherently racist, whether he knows it or not, and the black or brown man his victim. It divides society into a hierarchy of victimhood in which Muslims and blacks hold the top positions and whites the bottom. The poor Jews, just like in all pseudo-scientific racial or, in this case, racial-religious hierarchies, find themselves at the bottom, this time because they are seen as both white and privileged, rather than the Untermensch of the Nazi imagination.
In practice, this means that the police, mindful of their unconscious racial bias and brainwashed into believing that equity requires – according to fashionable thinkers like Betty Friedan – affirmative action or positive discrimination, extend privileges to those at the top of the pyramid of victimhood (blacks and Muslims) and contemptuous indifference towards those at the bottom (whites and Jews). This is why we’ve been witnessing the alarming phenomenon of two-tier policing over the last twelve months. Whites and Jews are not being afforded the same privileges and protections as Muslims.
The boys and girls in blue need to get a grip, exorcise the woke mind virus and afford Jews the full protection of the law enforced without fear or favour. As things currently stand, Jews are the victims of institutionalised police racism.
(Photograph: Julian Stallabrass from London, UK, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons)
Joe Baron is a teacher and a writer, published in The Spectator, The Sun, the TES, Breitbart, Conservative Home, The Conservative Woman and The Daily Telegraph. His blog can be found here.
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I’m more worried about the institutionalised discriminations directed at the indigenous white Briton, their culture, heritage, free speech and freedoms than the Js or any other so called minorities in this country. At present my people are on track to become a minority in their own country by 2050 so to be quite honest I have more pressing concerns.
Very true and if we’re totally honest if things get worse, British Jews can always be assured of refuge in Israel (or with family abroad in other countries as many still seem to have extensive international links) – where can we all go? the Falklands perhaps?
Also it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that current tensions (never ending unfortunately) are focused on matters abroad that shouldn’t be any of our concern and particularly now when we’re subject to so many injustices on our own island.
The title of the article should read ; Jews are victims .
All minorities play the victim card despite numbers from within their ranks holding high places in the establishment. It’s perhaps significant that the majority (at least the majority for now, if not the future) are increasingly turning to the victim card instead of striving to maintain their rights by whatever means are necessary.