NGOs Driving Antisemitism in Europe, Part II: The UK
by Robert Williams • December 31, 2024 at 5:00 am
The Labour government apparently does not care about Hamas terrorists promoting Hamas in London. What they do seem to care about is shutting down all criticism of Hamas. One elderly pensioner -- who expressed his disappointment that Palestinian flags were being flown all over Bethnal Green Road in East London -- was arrested for it.
Then there are the mosques where hatred and violence are preached. At Birmingham's Green Lane Mosque, for instance, the imams give lectures on how to properly stone a woman – you first bury her up to her waist – and how to kill homosexuals and apostates. Evidently, that did not bother the British government one bit.
So, while ordinary Britons are serving prison sentences of up to several years for posting relatively bland statements on social media, the people behind these charities and mosques continue to run their businesses as usual.
Where does that leave the Jews and everyone else? In beautiful downtown Upyoursville.
European authorities, as usual, refuse to fight the violence running rampant in their streets. Most recently, Amsterdam's mayor, Femke Halsema, banned a rally against antisemitism at the central Dam Square; she said out of concern for Jewish citizens.
After the Amsterdam attacks against Jews and Israelis, during which the police stood by and did nothing, Halsema publicly regretted calling the event a pogrom. Such terms, she said, were "propaganda":
"If I had known that it would be used politically in this way, and also as propaganda... I want nothing to do with that. The Israeli government spoke of a 'Palestinian pogrom on the streets of Amsterdam,' and in The Hague, the words were used to discriminate against Moroccan Amsterdammers – Muslims. That is not what I meant or what I wanted."