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Posted on 01/19/2005 10:45:46 AM PST by Alouette
Eight ultra-Orthodox Jews have been injured, some seriously, in a spate of anti-Semitic attacks in the London district of Stamford Hill over recent weeks, a senior Jewish official in Britain told The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday.
He also revealed that gravestones in the Jewish section of a municipal cemetery in Aldershot, Hampshire, including those of ex-servicemen, were desecrated over the past few days. This was the second such incident at the cemetery in two months.
In the latest attack by vandals, a total of 12 headstones were defaced with Nazi daubings.
The Stamford Hill attacks on conspicuously dressed ultra-Orhtodox men are believed to have been perpetrated by a gang of up to four men, who have been described as black and Asian.
In some cases, the victims were struck with iron bars, while in others they were punched, kicked and head-butted by their assailants. Some required hospitalization for treatment.
Police are investigating the incidents.
Mike Whine, a senior official at the Community Security Trust (CST), which is dedicated to defending the Jewish community, told the Post he could discern no particular reason for the attacks, which he described as "potentially lethal."
He noted that CST's annual survey of anti-Semitism, which is scheduled to be published next month, would indicate a pattern of rising anti-Semitism and rising violence.
Anger over complaints about Prince Harry's costume?
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I am sure it was out of control Japanese...
Wow! I didn't think blacks and asians got along much.
HA
Some Muzzies need to whomped silly with iron bars and Mosques razed. That's what they want. That's what all their hare brained aggression says they want
Pakistan is an 'Asian' country.
Are you serious, about the Blacks and Asians remark?
Why, yes it is. But, at last glance, there aren't too many black people in Pakistan either, are there?
I went to college with some Pakistanis who were quite dark-complected. Some Pakistanis look more like Indians, others more like Afghans.
Yes. Traditionally, at least in the United States, blacks and asians (as large scale groups) have not gotten along well. Look at California and all the violence between blacks and Koreans. I remember having a section in my sociology class about this. It's theorized that the two groups were seen as the two lowest on the societal scale during most of American history, especially in the western portion of the U.S. I remember my professor saying, "Most people need someone to hate. These two just hate each other.
seems that both the Christians and Jews are going to have to learn the great art of street fighting and self-defense that our once proud forefathers once had.....
people have got to stop being patsies....
I think those folks would be of Dravidian descent. Not what we commonly think of as "black". "Black" typically refers to someone of sub-Saharan African descent.
If the headline read "Jews attacked by Islamic Nazis" it would convey the story far more accurately.
Of course. But someone attacked on the street might not be in a position to make that distinction.
"black people" in France usually means Moroccan or Algierian Muslim extremist immigrants.
Or start carrying firearms, which of course in unpopular with the liberal crowd.
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