Arrests in UK over claims antisemitic abuse hurled from cars

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Arrests in UK over claims antisemitic abuse hurled from cars

May 16, 2021

LONDON (AP) — British police arrested four people on Sunday over videos posted on social media that appeared to show violent antisemitic language being shouted from a convoy of cars driving through London.

The footage appears to show several cars adorned with Palestinian flags driving through an area of north London with a large Jewish population. At one point a man’s voice can be heard through a loudspeaker shouting profanities and saying “rape their daughters.”

The Metropolitan Police force said officers stopped a car on a main road in the west of the city and detained four men on suspicion of racially aggravated public order offenses.

“This behavior was utterly shocking and will not be tolerated,” police Supt. Jo Edwards said.

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[Mosby]

1. Video

Note that the convoy didn't drive to the Israeli embassy, they drove to a heavily Jewish section of London.

Link to tweet

[unconventional]

2. It's scary

Scary how much anger there is. One side blaring the worst imaginable things on loudspeakers, the other side bombing left and right knowing full well that children are dying with each blast.

It isn't anti-Palestinian to condemn this. It also isn't anti-Semitic to condemn bombing children.

You know?

[Crunchy Frog]

3. They shouldn't be equating Jewish people in the UK with the state of Israel.

It's completely possible to demonstrate against Israeli atrocities without engaging in antisemitic attacks against people who aren't a part of it.