A “disgusting” road sign warning people about the presence of Jews has been found attached to a lamppost in north London.
The triangular sign, discovered in Stamford Hill on Monday, shows a silhouette of a traditionally-dressed Orthodox Jewish man with a bright red border around it.
It is in the same style as official government road signs which warn of dangers including schoolchildren crossing the road and slippery surfaces.
Neighbourhood watch group the Shomrim said it had reported the sign to police and Hackney Council after it appeared near a synagogue on Clapton Common.
Barry Bard, Supervisor at Stamford Hill Shomrim, said: “The sign has caused a lot of concern amongst local Jewish residents, especially as it is in such close proximity to a Synagogue.”
Shadow Home Secretary Diane Abbot, who is MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, branded the sign “disgusting” and “unacceptable” on Twitter.
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Please let’s stop making a big deal out of every stupid thing
Mordechay:
That’s what some people said in Germany 85 years ago.
That’s hilarious actually
mordechay, This is not a stupid thing. Are you in London? Do you not feel the hate in the streets?
A cute Purim shtick. Nothing more
To No. 1
Sorry, but this is a “big deal”. We cannot explain away these growing instances of anti-Semitism. We must focus a spotlight and fight back.
Stamford Hill is the Williamsburg/Monsey/New Square/KY of London. This is NOT FUNNY. But to be fair, it will only become a big deal when these kinds of things & personal attacks happen in S. John’s Wood, Hampstead, Bushey, and other upper class, Conservadox London neighborhoods. As long it’s “frummers” getting attacked it’s OK.
Chalabi Jew:
If that is a Purim shtick, I don’t see what’s ‘cute’ about it!
it is almost certainly a Purim shtick and shouldn’t be treated as an anti-semitic incident. not everything is.
Why did the locals not get it?
And now it’s all over the press.
did no-one from the community suggest to them that it may have been a joke?
Unless you know who put up the sign, and the article did not refer to an arrest, it is more likely to be, at worst, a Purim joke, and perhaps more along the lines of someone “marking turf”. This assumes the neighborhood where the sign was placed is one with so many frum Jews that one would not need a sign to know it was a Jewish neighborhood. If it was a modern Orthodox neighborhood or a secular Jewish neighborhood, the likely meaning of the sign would a warning that frum Jews might be moving in – which is hardly neo-Nazism.
You are all living in non reality
With the rise in anti semitism from the left and Moslem communities since the obama era it’s not a joke
Germans said the same thing about the little house painter ITS A LL talk
6 million died a joke
I grew up in that neck of the woods many years ago and experienced anti semitism every time I went out into the streets. I would be cursed at, stuff thrown at me and other forms of harassment. The fact is Jews remain a target of harassment wherever they are and the thought of eliminating it entirely is a pipedream.
Did you notice how goyim portray REAL Jews? Hat and jacket! Something we ought to be proud of.
So, it seems that the sign was one of several pt up by an artist. The others featured things like a woman pulling a shopping trolley, a man pushing his wheelchair and a cat. The artist has apologized for the offense he caused.
There was something about the sign that made some people (including myself) think it might have been a Purim joke. I thought about it and realized that the Jewish character was too realistic and not threatening enough to be an antisemitic caricature. Given the level of “background” antisemitism in the UK, I wouldn’t blame anyone for perceiving it as antisemitic.
https://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/road-sign-artist-1.434361
If the sign was put up by anti-semites, they were given exactly what they wanted: free publicity and the confirmation that they had sown fear in sections of the Jewish community. Surely the best thing would have been for the first person who saw the sign to take it down and keep quiet about it. If it was Purim shpiel those who were amused were amused.