Awful. And on the holiest days for Jewish people. https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/police-scene-reported-stabbing-synagogue-093920485.html British police say deadly rampage at UK synagogue was a terrorist attack An assailant drove a car into people outside a synagogue Thursday in northern England and then began stabbing them, killing two and seriously wounding four in a terrorist attack on the holiest day of the Jewish year, police said. Officers shot and killed the suspect, Greater Manchester Police said, though it took authorities some time to confirm he was dead because of concerns he had an explosive. The Metropolitan Police in London, who lead counter-terrorism policing operations, declared the assault a terrorist attack.
This is the result of the endless incitement against Jews and Israel in particular. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...reater-manchester-live?utm_source=chatgpt.com
I don't want to rehash the same topic we've brought up over the last 2 years, but that's always been my issue with the "globalize the intifada" rhetoric. It's not about or just about Israel, it never is or was. The demonstrations in front of synagogues, Hillel houses, or other Jewish establishments have nothing to do with Israel, and yet, this seems to be going above many people's heads.
I don't know if you all realize it, but we don't just walk into our religious services -- we pass through checkpoints including a metal detector. There is generally a good-sized hired security force hovering, especially for days like Yom Kippur -- I even saw one up on the roof tonight. Here in California we're 7500 miles from Israel, and yet the threat feels very real.
I’m all for protesting Israeli genocide against Palestinians but targeting people because they are Jewish is abhorrent.
Surprise, surprise- FIFA refuses to suspend Israel. Quite the double standard. I had posted a video in French where the distinction with Russia was explained - FIFA had no choice since most FAs within UEFA threaten to boycott any games with Russia. (Weird they haven't switched to AFC yet) I'm guessing this wasn't the case for Israel within UEFA but had they've been part of AFC, it would have been a different story.
Ahhh, nothing beats the feeling of shattering lies with facts and videos. .@IsraelPolice is looking for the humanitarian aid from the Hamas-Sumud provocation so it can be transferred peacefully to Gaza. The only problem: so far they haven’t found much. Like we said, it was never about the aid. It was always about the provocation. pic.twitter.com/AbL52UGQCv— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 2, 2025
Prob a stalling tactic. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-3-2025/ Statement from terror group welcomes US effort, but also includes some caveats that may hold up efforts to reach an agreement * Trump calls on civilians to flee to ‘safer areas of Gaza’ in latest ‘final warning’ ultimatum to Hamas
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/oct/04/greta-thunberg-israel-gaza-sweden I bet there will be no retaliatory measures from Sweden or the EU.
The Israeli-Canadian Victor on the hill in Sderot. Israelis look at the destruction in Gaza through binoculars (at 1 euro): 'Look, something is being blown up again' For just over a euro, Israelis can view the ruins of Gaza through large binoculars. Correspondent Gilad Perez visits the famous hill in Sderot, which has become a tourist attraction. "Peace? Realistically, I don't think it will happen." https://www.irishtimes.com/world/mi...s-watch-gazas-destruction-through-binoculars/ "Not destroying everything" The disgusting of making the massacre of Gazans into a tourist attraction and needing a lie that not everything is destroyed, is indicative of the moral content of a part of the Israeli people.
Dutch Red Line protest this time drew an unexpected 250,000 protesters. In Italy mass protests and strikes ( over two million) disrupt the country.
In downtown Sofia, Bulgaria, you can walk right into the medieval Orthodox church and the Ottoman-era mosque which are only a block or so apart, but you need to be buzzed in and checked by security to visit the early 20-century synagogue just another block away from the other two. That in spite of the fact that it's the mosque that's been targeted by right-wing activists and vandals in recent years--Jews worldwide know that attacks like the one in Manchester are always a possibility, and you won't get a warning.
When I look at the list of attacks on synagogues, the overwhelming number of them occurred in the USA, some of them in Europe and even fewer in the Arab world. So going by that list, I fully understand the high alert situation at synagogues in the States. Your assertion worldwide is over the top. Some of those in Europe and the Arab/ME region were by outside terrorists, so not domestic threats. The aggression mainly is prevalent in the States. This is in Surinam, Paramaribo. Neighbours, not enemies.
We remember the attacks in the Toulouse jewish school in 2012 and at the hypercasher grocery shop in Paris in 2015, made by French natives. Unfortunalety the threat is here, and the hight alert situation entirely justified in Europe.
No doubt in Europe alertness is necesary, especially in current days climate, but that goes for mosques the same way, maybe even more. Each year I attend the ceremony of remembrance of the Rotterdam Jewish children taken and never returned alive in WWII. The last two years I was on edge, given the aggressive protests against the Gaza war and given the number of dead Gaza children I feared this children remembrance would trigger protests and actions. Both two years the ceremony was tranquile and peaceful and neither on my way to it, during it nor afterwards I saw a protester, which was a relieve.
This increasingly resembles a global movement akin to the one against the apartheid in South Africa. There seem to be a coalescing of different protests/movements (like the Gen Z protests) with the focal point being Gaza.
With all of the doom and gloom, I'm going to link below an episode from a podcast I listen to regularly. I want to do this b/c this episode made me feel more optimistic about the future than almost any other podcast i've listened to in the past two years (and I have listened to a lot). Give it a chance. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podca...n-statehood-from/id1529341876?i=1000729257009 In our two-part series on Palestinian statehood, we traced the history and politics behind decades of failed attempts. But for Palestinian activist and political leader Samer Sinijlawi, the real story isn’t just about UN votes or diplomatic resolutions. It’s about whether Palestinians and Israelis can build a shared future with their own hands. In this candid conversation, Noam and Samer explore why lasting peace must be created from within, and why he still believes it’s possible.
Israel held the international humanitarian flotilla activists without water for days, did not allow them to see any lawyer, and in some cases tortured them. Their personal effects were stolen and they were flown to Slovakia with only the clothes they were given at the facility and their passports. None of their governments were notified where they were headed.
A stat that correlates exactly with those three regions ranked from most Jews to fewest Jews. And we all know why Europe has so few Jews, and the Holocaust is only one reason. The other is that for centuries you guys harassed them or worse, so when they had a chance to come to America, they gladly got on the boats.