The Israeli Goverment Has Become The Monster

[Ellie]

They described the knife attacks in Golders Green as a “terrorist incident.” Golders Green is a heavily Jewish populated area in north London were the two Jewish men were targeted.
However, later in the same statement, the police described the attack against a Muslim in south London which happened earlier on the same day as a mere “altercation.”

Why is the Muslim victim of London's knife rampage getting less attention?

Update on investigation into Barnet attack

If the perp. is charged with three attempted murders, I doubt the attack on the Muslim man was a mere “altercation.”

Muslims don't matter, mentally ill persons make great terrorist scapegoats, Jewish lives are more important then any others, got it.

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

Why is the Muslim victim of London's knife rampage getting less attention?

Update on investigation into Barnet attack

If the perp. is charged with three attempted murders, I doubt the attack on the Muslim man was a mere “altercation.”

Muslims don't matter, mentally ill persons make great terrorist scapegoats, Jewish lives are more important then any others, got it.

Also note that attacks on certain groups are always framed as "terrorist", while every single attack by a far-right criminal (from Nazi to Zionazi, from incel to anti-abortion, from fascist to anti-LGBTQ) is dismissed as an "altercation" or as an "isolated incident attributed to mental illness." Speaks volumes.

 

[Alexia]

There is no 'has become' about this.
A few months ago it hit me that everyone that I met in Gaza during my time there (25 years ago - when the population was being walled in) is probably dead now and there maybe no one left to care, for they are under the rubble, in one of the cemeteries that were dug up, blown to bits or murdered in any other fashion that the IOF uses to get their murderous kicks.
They may take the land in the end because the world is on the aggressor’s side but they will not erase the people or the culture.
I was watching some Palestinians do the dabkeh the other day and they have a joy for life and may be far from home but home is not forgotten.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Why is the Muslim victim of London's knife rampage getting less attention?

Update on investigation into Barnet attack

If the perp. is charged with three attempted murders, I doubt the attack on the Muslim man was a mere “altercation.”

Muslims don't matter, mentally ill persons make great terrorist scapegoats, Jewish lives are more important then any others, got it.

It's two separate incidents, though.

He'd apparently known his first victim, the Muslim man, for the last 20 years, and according to Wikipedia they were friends.

"On being buzzed into the friend's home at around 8am, the attacker tried to stab his friend in the upper body with a knife, but the friend fended off the attack, sustaining minor injuries. "

After attacking his friend, he then left the premises, in Southwark, travelled across London to Golders Green an area with a large Jewish population, via Brent Cross shopping centre. According to the account in Wikipedia, he arrived in Golders Green shortly after 11 am. Had he travelled there directly from Southwark on the tube it would have taken about 40 minutes to get there, so there's about two hours unaccounted for. Whatever he did during those two to three hours, between the first and the subsequent attacks, though, they passed off without incident.

It's not as if he had an episode, attacked his friend in Southwark, ran out into the street and started attacking passers by. He attacked his friend, then travelled across London to Golders Green and attacked two complete strangers who, by their clothing, were visibly Jewish. It's two distinct incidents.

Given that his friend sustained only minor injuries I'm a bit surprised at the attempted murder charge, since that requires the prosecutor to prove actual intent to kill. Actual murder, in contrast, requires an intent either to kill or to inflict really serious injury, which is usually taken as read if weapons are involved, so it's easier to prove. Not that I know anything about the case, of course, but I suspect the first attack will eventually be resolved as attempted grievous bodily harm.

Be that as it may, it seems to me two separate incidents, with different motivations.

It also takes place in the context of a whole series of antisemitic incidents in recent weeks, many of them in or around Golders Green and neighbouring districts.

 

[Cristiano]

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

But hey, let's show some sensitivity to the feelings of his supporters, right?

 

[Mona Eberhardt]

There is no 'has become' about this.
A few months ago it hit me that everyone that I met in Gaza during my time there (25 years ago - when the population was being walled in) is probably dead now and there maybe no one left to care, for they are under the rubble, in one of the cemeteries that were dug up, blown to bits or murdered in any other fashion that the IOF uses to get their murderous kicks.
They may take the land in the end because the world is on the aggressor’s side but they will not erase the people or the culture.
I was watching some Palestinians do the dabkeh the other day and they have a joy for life and may be far from home but home is not forgotten.

If we look at the whole history of the region, from the Balfour Declaration and on, I think we'll find out in cognitive dissonance-inducing horror that it'd be more accurate to say that the Israeli government has always been the monster.