'Go back to Qatar': Jewish Londoners chase Al Jazeera out of neighborhood

Jewish residents of London's Golders Green neighborhood were not happy to see a news crew from the Qatari Al Jazeera network in their community.

The journalists from the network, known for its highly anti-Israel and even antisemitic coverage, had arrived in the heavily Jewish neighborhood to cover the arson attack on Hatzolah ambulances.

Video from the scene shows locals surrounding the news crew, chanting “Al Jazeera off our streets", “go home," and “terrorist".

In other videos, several young Jewish Londers are seen confronting members of the crew, telling them that they are not wanted in the neighborhood due to their outlet's history of antisemitism. One man can be heard telling the reporter, "No one wants Al Jazeera here". Another adds, "Go back to Qatar".

The crew members replied angrily, saying: "You don't decide when I stay or when I leave, and at one point, the confrontation deteriorated to an exchange of derogatory words in Arabic and Hebrew.

Police and security intervened to prevent the clash from escalating further, and the Al Jazeera crew left. Residents can be heard explaining to the police that the Qatari network's presence in the neighborhood is causing them to feel unsafe.

The journalists from the network, known for its highly anti-Israel and even antisemitic coverage, had arrived in the heavily Jewish neighborhood to cover the arson attack on Hatzolah ambulances.

Well, given that people immediately leapt to the conclusion that the arson was antisemitic—despite lacking any evidence to initially validate that—it's not surprising that some people might want to investigate (especially if they're already predisposed to disbelieve your claims).

Plus, the alleged Iranian group claiming responsibility for the arsons were kind enough to mention "the land of Israel" by name (in both English AND Arabic) instead of as Palestine, which is a rather courteous for an Iranian terror group...that, as far as anyone knows, didn't exist until just recently.

Nice narrative.

All we have right now are narratives, because there's no actual hard evidence (and again, the alleged confession of this Iranian terror group that speaks of "the land of Israel" instead of "Palestine" is just odd on their part) as to the perpetrators.

Whoever they are, I hope they're caught and brought to justice.

You have no evidence that they are Iranian. Shiite Islamists are in Yemen and Iraq, and one of the Gulf states, too. They might not even be Shiites. They are speaking Arabic, so either they are Arabs, or their intended audience is Arabs. Or they may be Ahwazi Arabs, who are mostly Shiites, though some have switched to Sunni, due to alienation with the Mullahs’ oppression. They may even be Sunnis, but are united in their hatred of Jews.

But you and that X post are both mistaken that the terror group did not exist until this incident, as per Tousi’s opening few minutes. They have been active in the Continent the past few weeks. New to the game.

That might explain why they refer to Israel by the wrong nomenclature, which at any rate still is strange. They are not referring to the ‘state of’ Israel, but to the ‘land of’ Israel. As a new terror franchise, they might have their own doctrine, and it’s easier to say than ‘the zionist entity’. But until the authorities catch one of these sumbitches, we can only speculate.

The members of the community in Golders Green are understandably hostile to Al Jazeera, because it’s the chief propaganda organ for Hamas.

“All we have right now are narratives”

A “narrative” is a pre-drawn conclusion in search of evidence to support it, that ignores any contrary or inconsistent evidence. The word you’re searching for is speculation, a different matter, because speculation does not preclude an open-minded approach towards evidence. “Narrative” does.

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