Al Jazeera Crew Harassed After Golders Green Arson; Britain's Racism Double Standard Exposed

Arabic Al Jazeera journalists were abused in Golders Green by local Jewry, and Britain’s anti-racism values suddenly went missing. Right, so an Al Jazeera crew turned up in Golders Green to report on the arson attack on that Jewish volunteer ambulance service and ended up being shouted out of the area by men from the same local community that had just been given the full language of national sympathy, but has had scant coverage in the mainstream because they’re still falling all over themselves covering the ambulance side of the story, talking up claims of an Iranian terror group that has apparently only existed for all of 5 minutes as the apparent perpetrators, so take a look at this, because if we’re going to talk racist attacks, as this ambulance arson story has been readily referred to as antisemitic, then lets be even handed about it. Pretty disgusting all in all isn’t it? The crowd is there. “Go back to Qatar” is there. The police officer saying they are reporting the news is there. The men insisting they feel threatened by the journalists while surrounding them and yelling in their faces is there. And once the animal slurs start, once you get donkeys and dogs thrown at Arab journalists in the middle of a London street, all the careful little pretence about community upset and understandable tension and emotions running high start falling apart on contact with the footage. Keir Starmer had already chosen his line by then. The Home Office had already chosen its line by then. The first incident, the burning of four Hatzola ambulances outside the synagogue on Highfield Road at about 1.45 in the morning, was treated as an antisemitic hate crime, handed to Counter Terrorism Policing, condemned from the top, and turned into a national statement about solidarity with British Jews. Four ambulances were destroyed. Thirty-four residents were displaced after oxygen canisters exploded. Replacement ambulances were promised by the next morning. Government money was put up for permanent replacements. The whole machine knew exactly what tone to use, exactly what moral language to reach for, exactly whose fear to centre.