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London: “My son was abused
for nearly two years at school,
called ‘yid’ and ‘Jewish scum’. He
was followed home by a child
shouting, ‘f*** the Jews, kill the
Jews’. The headteacher told my
son to ‘be more resilient.’”
Victoria, a recruitment manager
from Ilford: “At my synagogue,
people scream abuse at
worshippers. My son’s bar
mitzvah was ruined by someone
hurling racial slurs. I had to teach
my children an escape plan in
case of an attack.”
Zoe, a waitress from
Hastings: “I’ve had work events
cancelled, death threats made
to my face, been called a baby
killer and a terrorist. I’ve had
my religion removed from my
medical records because I no
longer feel safe having it there.”
Network are so important, timely and have such
potential for change.”
Ryan, a social media manager from Manchester: “A
colleague who knew I was Jewish made death
threats, told me she was Hamas, and said she was
going to gut me like a fish.”
Asher, a student from Bangor: “Since October
7th, I and members of my community have been
physically assaulted multiple times. The only Jewish-
owned business in my university city has been
repeatedly vandalised — with no action from the
CPS.”
Speaking to CUFI outside Parliament, Jeremy
Wootliff of GPS Network said: “Thank you
everybody for being with us in this desperate
journey, not just for the Jewish people, for the
Christian people and for the whole country. It is
terribly important that people realise that first they
came to the Saturday people, and then they came
for the Sunday people.”
CUFI’s Alastair Kirk spoke about Christians standing
in solidarity with the Jewish community. “I speak
on behalf of tens of thousands of Christians across
the United Kingdom, when I say that we will not be
silent as Jews in this country are targeted. We will
not be by-standers. We will not be simply observers
of this hatred. We will stand with you shoulder-to-
shoulder, until antisemitism is expelled from our
midst.”
“And so the crisis that we now have is that
antisemitism has become pervasive across the
whole of society…The oldest hatred has resurfaced
and Jews are now eight times more likely to be
attacked per capita than any other racial or ethnic
group,” he said.
“We just want to be regular British people,” Jeremy
continued, “We’re just regular folk from Britain. We
welcome the Christian alliance and helpfulness.
He continued, “This is now a critical hour; it is the
hour for urgent action. For the sake of the Jewish
community; for the sake of our nation; for the sake
of the values that we share.”
“We Jews, we need your help. We are only 270,000
people. We’re not enough; we cannot win this on
our own. We have an equal right to go about our
daily lives in peace and without distress.”
Speaking of the need for Christians to be active
in speaking out against antisemitism, Alastair
said, “As we all know, Christians outnumber Jews
significantly in the UK. One of our goals at CUFI
is to mobilise as many Christians as possible to
provide the practical support that is needed.
Support not only in words, but in action; which is
why the policy proposals put forward by the GPS
Together, we complemented existing proposals
from established organisations with new grassroots
suggestions to push beyond what seems to be
insufficient government action. Among our ten
proposals: create an Independent Antisemitism
Ombudsman, prosecute those who use Israel as a
pretext to target Jews, and enforce existing anti-
terrorism and anti-racism laws in full.
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