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Friday 16 January 2009

And the anti-semitism increases a notch

I wrote earlier this week about the rise in anti-Semitism in France and the UK, a subject that I covered quite a few times in the recent past. Now I read that:
"A Starbucks in London’s East End has been fire-bombed.

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."


Why is this news not being reported by the BBC? You can be sure that it would be headline news had it been a Lebanese restaurant on the Edgware Road that had been firebombed following an attack by Hezbollah on Israel.

The fear of a backlaksh against Muslims pervades the BBC's coverage but they seem not to care about attacks on Jews.

The Whitechapel attack is not an isolated example, a Starbucks in Kensington bore the brunt of it when a mob attacked retail premises near the Israeli Embassy. Have you seen this reported by the BBC?

Meanwhile a the East London Advertiser reports three more incidents: "
"a gang of youths hurled a brick at a Tesco delivery van half-a-mile away, then attacked the driver as he drove through Canon Street Road. The 45-year-old driver was later treated for a head injury and needed seven stitches.

Cops said the youths were Asian, who were wearing dark tops and may have been seen outside a fast food restaurant earlier.

The new Tesco Metro supermarket in Stepney’s Commercial Road was targeted at the weekend when several windows were smashed and the words ‘kill Jews’ was daubed in paint.

The same slogan was daubed on the wall of a children’s playground on Whitechapel’s Chicksand housing estate last week."

Not a word on the BBC. Can I get really angry now?

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