JEWISH BUSINESS BOMBED - MEDIA SILENCE

The media's silence in this run up to a second holocaust is nothing short of a war crime.

Starbucks daubed with Magen Dovid in Beirut

A Starbucks in London’s East End has been fire-bombed. Harry Place

Early this morning, thugs smashed their way into the coffee shop as the manager hid inside the office. As he watched on the security monitor in the office, they daubed racist graffiti and finally lobbed a molotov-cocktail through the plate-glass window. Luckily he managed to make it to the fire-escape and raise the alarm. Fire-fighters managed to stop the flames spreading to the adjacent buildings.

At Indymedia, it is being flagged up as a triumph of “peace activism” (”Smashing the Israeli war machine - Starbucks, Whitechapel firebombed ” is the headline). But sane people, see this for what it is: thoughtless terror and attempted murder. Sane people know that Whitechapel shops often have residential properties above them and that fires spread quickly through the tightly packed buildings. But then sane people know that Starbucks isn’t an Israeli company either. Sane people know that firebombing shops because you think they’re owned by Jews… oh let’s not waffle: sane people know that firebombing shops is not legitimate political activism - for any reason. Even Spiked Online gets it.

Depressingly, the news that a shop in London was firebombed and daubed with antisemitic graffiti seems only to have been reported in the local press - and of course, crowed about at Indymedia.

So what is causing this? Who are the people hoping to incite Kristallnacht 2.0? Some have pointed their finger at George Galloway, with his call to “shut down Israel shops”. The Respect machine is now in overdrive, letting it be known that he was referring to a handful of small booths that operate in shopping centres, selling cosmetics.  We take him at his word. Of course, one of these “Israel Shops” was smashed up in Belfast earlier this week.

Galloway must, of course, have been very sure that his audience knew which particular chain of shops he was taking about, and was, no doubt, very surprised to find that others thought he was encouraging action to be taken, generally, against businesses connected to Israel. His spokesman, Rob Hoveman, even went so far as explain that Galloway opposes a boycott of Marks and Spencer. But, as a socialist, does he have no regard for the safety and the livelihoods of the workers at those businesses he thinks deserve targetting? Are they to blame for the war in Gaza? Where was this ’socialist’s’ reminder to respect the staff while “shutting down” shops?

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UPDATE: Molotov latte to go, please  Melanie Phillips

Comments

[NormanF]

They single out Jews... but as we see in the looting of Starbucks cafes, its not Jews who are harmed. Those who hate Jews, their own evil ends up burning them!

[ETT]

Hi

It has not aways been this way.

Here is a link to facists being stopped from marching in the East End.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AQDOjQGZuA

At that time it was a working class and Jewish area. The real left and real socialists fought the facists. This was seen as a turning point in British history and played a major role in stopping the facists.

Idiots "PEACE" march. We see similar marches for peace today. However, many socialists seem to have lost touch with reality and march for "peace". Of course with Hitler some of the left blamed the allies for being hard on Germany after WWI.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrZn76kRER0&feature=related

We have the same choice today.

Since Hitler and the Nazis were opposed to a Jewish state and were supported by the Mufti, I guess Galloway would be on the second march.

[ETT]

Hi again,

Gallloway's call for stopping the booths selling cosmetics is interesting.

In Odense two Israeli salesmen were shot by a Palestinian. This has no connection to Gallowy's call, but is a similiar mentality. Just how does he plan to shut the booths? We are free to boycott shops and products. However, to shut them down! Is he calling for physical action of some kind?

Here is a link to video about the shooting to Odense.

http://nyhederne.tv2.dk/article.php/id-19457833.html

The salesmen had been harassed before the shooting incident. I guess this is what Galloway wants rather than shooting people.

I have post this link before but it is relevant to this issue. It is from an English languge Danish newspaper.

"Two Israeli men were shot and wounded by a Palestinian-Dane on Wednesday afternoon in the Funen city of Odense. Police have no motive for the shooting yet but believe it may be tied to the recent escalation of the military conflict in Gaza. ..."
http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/88-national/43912-shooting-tied-to-gaza-conflict.html

The harassment stated four weeks ago. This is before Israel went into Gaza.

[Always On Watch]

I have to wonder how many similar anti-Semitic attacks we are not hearing about. The media remain silent and see to it that we remain as uninformed as possible.

[Cyberray]

I said before that it was only a matter of time before bombs start to go off in US cities....
I guess that time is here and now.......
Media silence allows for the warm up runs and copy cats to rev up their motors before the real fun starts.
So we had two bombs go off today, one big one and one small one! Weeee
fasten your seat belts folks, it's going to be a bumpy ride........