[AndrewFoxSubstack] The canary in the coal mine has gone silent. Britain should be utterly ashamed.
| There was a brief Facebook Reel last night as I was editing the articles in the hopper for the midnight rollover — I didn’t get the link before the next one popped up, for which I apologize. A French Jewess said it’s over. At every gathering now, someone starts talking about where to go. Israel, sure. America? A possibility. But no longer England, no longer Canada… There are still about 450,000 Jews in France, roughly half Ashkenazi Jews who’d first settled in France under the Roman empire, with the addition in the 1950s of Jews from North Africa, part Maghrebi Jews whose communities dated back to Carthage before the conquest of Rome, part the Sephardi Jews who’d settled among them following the Jewish expulsions from Spain and Portugal in 1492. |
One of the women was pushing a pram with a baby. On Monday this week, three Jewish women were assaulted in Stamford Hill. Shomrim volunteers detained a suspect; police arrested a 33-year-old man on suspicion of racially aggravated common assault and then increased patrols. They deserve credit. A woman taking her baby through London should not need this protection. What a disgusting state of affairs. It gets worse, though.
Today’s published review of antisemitism in England’s schools and colleges describes children encountering hatred long before they reach the classroom. In one class at a Jewish school Sir David Bell’s team visited, every single pupil could describe antisemitic abuse on the journey to or from school. The report records schools advising pupils to conceal their Jewish identity while travelling. Children are learning to hide because the adults responsible for their safety have failed to make ordinary journeys safe. Read that again. Is this our country now? Is this Britain? Is it?
Almost three in five Jewish respondents had experienced or witnessed antisemitism. Across respondents who encountered antisemitism, roughly half said incidents went unreported, and their reasons included doubting that anyone would take them seriously.
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The canary in the coal mine has stopped singing, and I am sick of watching people argue that the quiet is a Zionist fabrication. A twelve-year-old has to explain why gas chamber taunts are wrong. Grown adults read accounts of Jewish children being abused and set about discrediting them, then have the gall to call themselves anti-racists. What a revolting betrayal of everything they claim to believe. Jewish families owe these people no apology for existing, no statement on Gaza and no patient hearing for their excuses. Protect the children. Hold the adults who fail them accountable. Anyone who sneers at their suffering should be confronted with the ugliness of what they are defending every time they presume to lecture the rest of us about racism. |