Britain – Abusive behavior, July 2012 (20 incidents)

01/07/2012 Belfast

The victim, a visibly Jewish male, received a Nazi salute, whilst driving through a non Jewish area.

 

02/07/2012 RADLETT, Hertfordshire

A Jewish resident returned home in the early hours of the morning when he noticed something in his

driveway.  He got out of the car to have a look and saw a sign had blown onto his property which  had graffiti on, saying “death to the Jews” and a drawing of a swastika as well as another drawing of a knife.

02/07/2012 Radlett, Hertfordshire

It has been reported that antisemitic graffiti has been written on a temporary barrier where construction work is happening.  The words “FUCK THE JEWS!!!” have been written in capital letters in black or dark blue marker.

 

03/07/2012

Antisemitic abuse was seen online via Twitter, referring to a visibly Jewish area as a “Jew hive”.

The abuse also included suggestions of gassing Jews and bombing the local Jewish newspaper.

 

04/07/2012 South Kensington, London

A visibly Jewish man was walking home from work when a middle aged man walking towards him said “cunt” to him. The victim turned and said “excuse me?” the man then said “I was just saying what a nice day it is” and so the victim said “it is not appropriate to call me a cunt” to which the man replied “it is not appropriate that you are killing Palestinians”.

The victim then said “I am nothing to do with Israel, you need to get your facts straight before you start abusing people” the man just huffed and walked away.

 

05/07/2012 Hendon, London

The reporter is a mother of a child at a Jewish school. The child told her that on the way back from school her and a few friends took the bus and then got off to change buses and whilst at the bus        stop some males from another school started making comments towards them.

She said the boys kept saying “fuck the Jews” and while the victims sat on a bench huddled together they surrounded them to make them intimidated.

 

The boys then boarded another bus and ran to the second storey where they shouted out of the window to the victims “fuck the Jews”.

 

07/07/2012

The victim is a visibly Jewish male, who was walking in a Jewish area, on Shabbat when shouts were heard from a passing car of “Jew, Jew, Jew” on two occasions. 

 

08/07/2012 Salford

A group of Jewish yeshiva students were stood by the roadside, after Shabbat, chatting to each other and on their phones.

 

While standing there a group of approximately 4 males, some white and some black, came out of a nearby road, saw them and shouted “Hitler should have killed all the Jews” and “fuck you mother fuckers”. The group then started to come towards the Jewish boys who retreated up the road and towards their dormotory. The group followed them and then ran off when they heard one of the boys calling the police.

 

09/07/2012 Broughton Park

The victim was walking out of the grounds of a Synagogue when the occupant of a passing car shouted “where do the Jews live”.

 

10/07/2012 Radio Station, London                                                          

The reporter was listening to the radio when they started accepting callers. One caller came on air and the presenter asked him what he had been doing during his day. The caller said that he had been delivering salmon all day and that he had delivered all types of salmon but had been delivering “the type that THEY like in bagels” adding “you know what I mean”.

The presenter asked if the salmon was responsibly sourced to which the caller responded that he had been delivering to “four by twos”. The presenter then said “all I am trying to find out is if your salmon is responsibly sourced” to which the caller shouted “yeah, its Kosher..”

 

10/07/2012 London

Some anti Zionist graffiti has been daubed in black pen in the mens toilets at a public building. The graffiti says “Rothschilds Warning! Olympic games is a sacrificial stage set! 2012 logo leads Zion -Zionists behind 9/11 and 7/7. IT’S WAKE UP TIME! Pence”.

 

12/07/2012 Manchester

A well known Jewish accountancy firm received an anonymous call saying “you’re a Yid firm, you            Yids are all the same” and “we know where you are.”

 

14/07/2012 Crumpsall, manchester

The victim, who is visibly Jewish, was walking on Sabbath evening when the passenger of a passing car shouted “fucking Jew”. The offenders were Asian males in their early 20s.

 

17/07/2012 Buckingham

A Jewish couple was away for the day on holiday and when they sat to have lunch, a young male came and sat next to them. He looked as though he was under the influence of either drugs or alcohol and he started asking the couple about Jewish ceremonies. He then said that he knew they were Jewish as the man was wearing a skullcap but he said “I don’t understand why you don’t have a long nose”.

The couple decided it would be best to leave the area and walked to their car to leave.

 

17/07/2012 Liverpool

A swastika was found drawn on the wall of a Jewish home. Which left the family to feel they were            being targetted.

 

18/07/2012

An Israeli man came over to England to start a job and has received comments from his Managing Director. The comments include “I am a great supporter of Israel and think highly of Jews, but I agree that Jews run the banks” he said this as a sales target for the victim who took it to mean that as he is Jewish he expects more from him.

Another comment was “we are in a crisis situation but you pulled out of it” and when the victim said thank you, he replied “not you as an individual, I meant you as a race”. He also keeps making comments about the Jewish people being a tight knit community.

 

21/07/2012 London

A Rabbi was walking home from Synagogue when a car passed and the passengers started to gesticulate using their hands and making eyeball gestures that they are aware who he is and is watching him. The windows of the vehicle were closed so voices could not be heard.

 

21/07/2012 Bushey, Hertfordshire

A crowd of Jewish people had congregated when a car drove past and the occupants shouted “Jewish cunts” at them.

 

23/07/2012 Brent Cross, London

A visibly Jewish man was queueing for petrol when the driver of the car next to him accused him of pushing in the queue. The victim ignored the driver who then said “you wouldn’t have jumped the queue to go to the gas chambers”. 

25/07/2012

An organisation against racism received a phone call from a person who thought/hoped they were the BNP. After being told that they are not the BNP and could not help, he got aggressive and said “fuck you, you Yid”.

 

25/07/2012 High Wycombe

Some antisemitic and racist graffiti has been daubed on temporary boarding in a town centre. The graffiti reads “DEATH TO ISRAIL + U.S.A FUCK U…. PAKI FUCKERS”.

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