Why are people going round London tearing down posters about kidnapped Israelis, asks Tom Slater in Spiked. This is not normal behaviour.
When you see a poster about a missing person, do you feel an overwhelming urge to tear it down? When you are confronted with the victims of a racist pogrom, do you think to yourself “ah, stop going on about it already”, and start telling everyone nearby to stop their blubbing?
Of course you don’t. Because you’re not a monster. But on the streets of London over the past two weeks an alarming number of people have been carrying on exactly like this, in response to a poster campaign aimed at highlighting the plight of the 200 predominantly Jewish Israelis who have been kidnapped by Hamas.
Jewish and Israeli activists have been putting posters up across central London and other cities. Each one bears the name and photo of an innocent man, woman or child who was taken by the antisemitic terrorists of Hamas two Saturdays ago. The aim seems to be to ensure that the world doesn’t forget about these missing civilians, whose devastated families currently fear the worst.
A humanistic, heartfelt initiative, you might think. Not according to the string of people who have been filmed ripping the posters off walls, defacing them and lecturing the Jewish activists who put them up about the supposed evils of Israel, in a series of sickeningly similar encounters that have now gone viral on social media.
They really need to be seen to be believed. “Oh, fuck off”, says one poster-ripper, as she is confronted by the activists. “They’re kidnapped!”, shout the activists. “Yeah, yeah, what’s happening in Palestine?”, she responds. She then claims the posters include “inaccurate information”, because they mention women being raped by Hamas. “Do you have any evidence of that?”
This is a recurring theme of the videos. Not only are the poster-rippers offended by any reference to the Jewish suffering in Israel and Gaza at the moment, they also seem to think it’s being sexed up. After a young man and his girlfriend were filmed ripping down posters of kidnapped kids, an activist confronted them, telling them he knows one of those kids. “Really, where’s your proof?” comes the cocky response.
Others have been filmed launching into impromptu, historically illiterate lectures about Israel and Palestine, as if that explains why they are destroying posters about missing innocents. “75 years of genocide”, says one young woman in a hijab, repeatedly, as she is given a dressing down. One man scrawled “coloniser” over the faces of missing children.
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We KNOW why they are tearing down these posters! First, we’ve hastily imported hundreds of thousands of migrants from the middle east and other such regions; a significant portion of these are anti-Semites and many, in turn, live in London – QED. Even to head the article with a question of this kind is weak and disingenuous. Then there are our own “metropolitan young”, deeply indoctrinated in the morally insanitary doctrines of fourth phase Marxism – which of course hates Israel as a moderately nationalist answer to the long history of anti-Semitic persecution. And finally there is the matter of public fear – with everyone anxious to appease the growing blob of imported bigotry. In other words, people will rip these “provocations” away from the angry, searching eyes of their recently acquired neighbours. The west has been turned into a broken, fissiparous powder keg by an alliance of cold blooded money-men – see a recent article by one such idiot in CapX advocating even more migration on “economic grounds”; pie-eyed “humanitarians”, who leave in leafy, monocultural retreats; and the sleeplessly malignant Marxist scum who underlie the lot.
One could just as easily ask why are posters of kidnapped Israelis going up in London?
Exactly, that’s the absurdity
Well, you got it in the neck there, AYM! I’ve asked the same question and expect the same response. I think it’s a valid question though. What is the point of it? Anyone who knows is surely going to be in the Middle East unless I’m missing something altogether.
..No mention that Fly-Posting is against the law….if we are nit picking and taking these unpleasant random acts of stupidity seriously.
Nailed it….!!
Ah well, if they didn’t go up, they couldn’t then file an insignificant pro agenda story could they?
Yet another slide down the ‘ what small, insignificant story can we find to support the agenda today’….hill… and is both boring, and tiring, nd as I have stated several times, turning people OFF….
Who cares why they are doing it..seriously?
The story is supposed to prove what? That the complex political landscape in the middle-east boils down to every tiny insignificant act committed by nutters roaming the streets of Britain??
Pathetic…
Supposed to prove what? Maybe that we have imported the same sort of garbage – sorry innocent, loving, caring, compassionate civilians – that lives in Gaza.
…..if three women ‘proves’ something, other than there are idiots everywhere, and you want to link that to a racist remark about a whole race of people, that says more about you than them.
….and I would say..propaganda completed….
Horribly racist JXB. How many times has Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria of the people of Gaza bombed the UK? Sure, we’re the good guys.
Gee that’s a tough question.
Do you suppose it’s to alert the braindeads in our population to the harsh realities?
Oh I don’t know, maybe to put faces to the dehumanised Jewish victims in the face of relentless anti-semitic propaganda.
They’re brainwashed idiots, psychopaths or a bit of both. Why should a child or civilian’s life be deemed more valuable or worthy of outrage or concern if they’ve been kidnapped or killed, based solely on where they’re from? It’s just bonkers and completely irrational. You’re either a person with humanity, capable of feeling compassion, or you’re not. Who in their right mind can weep for the kids in Palestine but feel coldness or indifference to the Israeli kids slaughtered or being held captive by Hamas? We need a psychologist’s input here as to what these people are thinking because it’s beyond me. Meanwhile, this 2min clip is a good example of the brainwashed numpties who are totally clueless;
”I am so tired of women and gays who live in the West and unconditionally support Palestine and think that the only thing Palestine wants is ”peace.”
1. In Palestine, you would have NO rights as a woman.
2. As for gays, you would either get killed or jailed for being gay.
3. Palestine’s definition of ”peace” is the extermination of the Jews/Jewish state.
Why do Western women and gays almost always side with their oppressors? It’s exhausting.”
https://twitter.com/JustLuai/status/1715658568592941329
Don’t fall for the propaganda ‘Mogwai’. In 1919 Afghan women were granted the right to vote (1928 for England). In 1920 the first school for girls opened its doors. In the 1970s, the Afghan government raised the marriage age for women from 18 to 21, abolished polygamy and introduced compulsory education. The Brits attempted (and failed) to annex Afghanistan 1838-42, 1878-80 and 1919-21. The Mujahadeen received arms from the United States, Britain and China via Pakistan and the US-backed Taliban helped remove a progressive government that included 27 women. Most people want peace. This is not how The Game is played. Wars make money and divide and rule kills any resistance. You’re doing their job for them.
Have you seen this Mogwai? https://x.com/cr0mw3ii/status/1715589228262752737?s=48&t=6BQMFynQEy-AlvHGzy7vFw
Britain is a lost cause! Get out while you can, I did and glad Ive done so! The place will only get worse, guaranteed!
And go where, Dings? It might be temporarily ‘lost’ but there are good people here plus I am from this country. For better or worse, it’s where I am going to make my stand.
Planning our escape as I type.
When you’ve got the disgusting BBC writing and publishing articles like this one sided junk piece just today and stoking the flames that support Islamic terrorism there really isn’t much hope.
Words have power, meanings change.
Terrorist becomes militant becomes freedom fighter – and terrorism somehow becomes overused, worn out, almost justified.
Murderers, and accomplices to murder should suffice.
Similarly, hostages sound like a normal part of fair play warfare. Kidnapping, on the other hand, is clearly a crime.
Call this crime, plain and simple, and there is less room for confusion.
Because they hate Israel.
Because the Met Police look the other way.
Because the Government is big on talk but takes zero action.
Because the ‘great British public’ acquiesces.
Because for years the BBC misrepresented Israel as an oppressor.
Spot on
In responsoe to the final comment: Moshe Dayan (IDF/Defence Minister) – ‘Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you, because these geography books no longer exist; not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either…You [Palestinians] shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads’.
Both Jews and Palestinians have lost their homelands spanning centuries. Taking a side – whether you or the BBC – is doing the divide and rule job for the cabal. There are two sides. The People (be they Israelis, Palestinians, Jews, Muslims, Arabs, Christians etc etc) and those who want wars. Picking a side in the Bibi-Hamas war leaves one side united and one divided. Who do you think wins?
I get it but without detracting from the distress suffered by families and loved ones of the missing people, I would pose this point that I think is quite valid: why are posters going up in LONDON about missing Israelis in ISRAEL? It doesn’t make much sense to me. Seems like another divide and conquer tactic.
Lest we forget.
Why are football teams taking a minutes silence before todays matches? For the same reasons as you point out. ——We have imported all of the worlds sectarianism to this country, so this country is now full of foreign sectarianism, otherwise known as multiculturism..
At the Rugby World Cup matches last weekend they had a minute of reflection on the horror of what is happening in the Middle East. Not pro or anti one side.
I was pleasantly surprised by the political neutrality but rugby is a less tribal sport off the pitch than football.
We should be promoting the immediate cessation of hostilities & peace in the region.
Apparently this was London today. Don’t know if anyone here was in the city but it’s not a great time to be Jewish right now is it? You’d be bricking it. I realise not everyone participating in these demos is an antisemite by default but it does kind of give that whole ‘anti-Israel’ vibe. Then you get the idiots joining in with their ISIS flags and their blatant hostility. Scary times..
https://twitter.com/visegrad24/status/1715763844071518608
Jews have been hugely disproportionately involved in the population replacement program in Christendom.
As they have in all of the other policies intended to end our civilisation.
And historically they have sided with Muslims against Christians: today, Jewish Israel is supporting Muslim Azerbaijan against Christian Armenia.
N, I thought better of you. If I had been in the wrong place back when my father served, Germans, some French, and Poles among others would have happily put my daughter on a train. If you see what I mean.
BB – take a side.
Mogs,
I abhor violence, an unprovoked attack on any man, woman or child because of their faith is also abhorrent.
I will not take a side in this but will condemn any & all acts of violence whoever commits them.
BB
I think you need to start joining the dots. Not the ones fed to us by MSM/DS/TCW. The demos were in support of the Gazans being murdered by the warmongers who make money out of arms & oil sales and the printing on money. They are not anti-Israel, just keeping alive the plight of the Palestinians in Gaza as so much of the western press is concentrated on the horrors of the attacks in Israel. As for the singularities, an Isis flag, a piece of cardboard in support of Hamas or two pics of paragliders hastily slapped on to the backs of a couple of women….don’t forget who gains from divide and rule and the useful idiots pushing this narrative. You get a lot of money for a pic on the front of the Daily Mail and it was hardly representative of the whole.
Sport should stay out of politics though. I have no problem with a minutes silence for victims of an earthquake or other such disaster, but no taking of the knee or any other type of social justice nonsense that sport should stay out of. Increasingly we are seeing the popularity of sport (and football in particular) exploited for political purposes and are we to soon see images of Greta Thunberg on players shirts?
There is a large population of Jewish people in London who visit and/or have family in Israel?
Tell us who you think they really are. Don’t just call them “people”
In the stories I’ve seen it’s three women they have identified….not an army..
not defending them..they’re idiots…
…but I do wonder if you, or anyone else thinks this story would have seen light of day on the DS only a month ago….? I would say not a chance…..
Feels worse than getting propagandised by the MSM!!
We have had plenty of articles on mass immigration and the destruction of our national Identity on the DS. This ripping down of posters is only another aspect of the problem caused by a mass influx of people bringing their sectarian hatred to our shores.
Can anyone point me to a poster or recall the name of one of the Palestinian children…among the over one thousand that have now been killed in Gaza?
Maybe DS needs to just come right out and stop hiding behind these pathetic stories and say what they mean?…I mean I think it’s obvious, but come on, have the courage…
Thought not…..
People are very free to mount posters of innocent victims in Gaza. And I’d be willing to lay a bet they wouldn’t be torn down.
People?
Dont you mean adherents of The Religion of Peace™️?
…because nothing says peace loving religion like killing nearly 5.000 people, nearly 2000 of them children in less than two weeks….thank goodness they are the peace loving ones….
Exactly what I said above and received the same 4 thumbs down as you did. I hope these same thumbs down people are so insistent in their point of view when we are all accused of White Privilege. ——–Why not just call them what they are and not just hide behind calling them “people”
I’m still waiting for Mrs Obama to appear waving a “Bring back our hostages” plackard.
If these were posters about captured Israeli prisoners, it would be despicable. It is. What’s equally despicable is using the plight of hostages to ramp up the already hysterical response worldwide from those with no skin in the game. Already Sara Sidner has come clean about the beheaded baby hysteria (see bayonet babies in WWII): @sarasidnerCNN
‘I would argue we were mislead. I am going to report on what heads of governments say. That is what new orgs do. It doesn’t mean it’s true but it’s news’….yet still it gets circulated. Nobody in the mainstream gets promoted for actually being able to join the dots.
Arguments thrive when facts are scarce. The hysteria leads to move death like the boy stabbed 26 times in the US and more antiSemitism and Islamaphobia
The irony is, the majority – the majority – of those in Israel & Gaza want to live in peace without rockets flying continuously over their heads, while the world burns around them. The two state solution has failure enshrined in its title. Those suggesting it or ‘peace talks’ don’t want peace. Thankfully, there appears to be enough level heads on both sides willing to work together for one country Israel-Palestine (alphabetical order!), where ‘leaders’ will no longer take them to war for the benefit of oil companies, arms manufacturers and central bankers.
Morons walk amongst us.
Excellent thread: https://x.com/cr0mw3ii/status/1715589228262752737?s=48&t=6BQMFynQEy-AlvHGzy7vFw