Good news for Britain’s Jewish community — anti-semitic attacks have decreased sharply in the past year. Racist attacks on blacks, Asians and Arabs are “far higher than the level of anti-semitic attacks”. So mazeltov then, you lucky, lucky Jews. Stop that whining. You’ve never had it so good.
That, at least, is the view of Lee Jasper, “race adviser” to Ken Livingstone and also on the board of the National Black Alliance, National Black Caucus and Operation Black Vote. (Indeed, if you were to choose two words at random and put the word “black” in between, you’d probably hit on an organisation run by Lee and funded, somewhere along the line, by your wallet.)
Jasper was responding to a survey by the Community Security Trust that seemed to show anti-semitic attacks had doubled in the past 10 years and increased by 37% over the past 12 months. The attacks were at their most concentrated during the summer war between Israel and Hezbollah.
But Jasper, who can usually be relied on to show you racism in a handful of dust or a bowl of chicken soup, unilaterally decided that the figures were rubbish. No story there, he said. Why’s that, I wonder?
The trust’s report was carried by quite a few national newspapers; but the curious thing is not one dared to mention why these attacks had increased nor speculated as to what group of people might be responsible for them. The impression one was left with was that any of us might have been out kicking Jews at night, perhaps because there was nothing good on the box. This was despite one or two strongish clues: the war in Lebanon and the graffiti that accompanied the desecration of Jewish graves in north London. The words spray-painted read “Hitler” and “Kill All Jews” and “Allah”. Now, call me Inspector Barnaby, but that last one is a bit of a giveaway.
A spokesman for the trust, Mark Gardner, said the usual suspects, white right-wing extremists, were not responsible — yet conceded, almost as an afterthought, that Muslims were “over-represented” in identifiable attacks. That’s over-represented in the same way that elderly middle-class white men are over-represented in the Long Room at Lord’s, I’d guess.
Still, at least we now have an idea why Jasper wished to deny the figures and why everybody else trod so gingerly.
But if you don’t spell it out, nothing will be done. The police, for example, are too busy interviewing Celebrity Big Brother contestants about who called whom “white trash” or “poppadom” to worry about real, hate-filled, violent racism. And yet the clue to the rise in attacks on Jewish people lies in the bookshop they raided in Birmingham last week — and thousands like it up and down the country.
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