On the Anniversary of Kristallnacht, a British Mob Tries to Break the Windows of the Israeli Ambassador’s Car https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/israel-zionism/2021/11/on-the-anniversary-of-kristallnacht-a-british-mob-tries-to-break-the-windows-of-the-israeli-ambassadors-car/

November 11, 2021 | Jewish Chronicle
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On Tuesday night, Tzipi Hotevely, the Israeli ambassador to the United Kingdom, came to the London School of Economics (LSE) to speak with students. A protest took place outside during the event, which devolved into an attack on the ambassador, who had to be evacuated. The editors of Britain’s Jewish Chronicle respond:

On November 9, 1938, the Nazis instigated a pogrom in Germany which became known as Kristallnacht. Eighty-three years later to the day, . . . Tzipi Hotovely was forced out of the LSE by violent racists on the hunt for a Jew to attack. Social-media posts make their aim very clear, with one . . . calling for her car window to be smashed. “Let’s f—in’ frighten her,” it continued. “Let’s make her shake.”

Footage of last night’s scenes has now been widely circulated. They shame the LSE. But they also shame our nation, because although the scale and extent of the violence last night may have been greater than usual, it is only a matter of scale. On campuses across the UK, Israeli spokespeople are always subject to attack when they appear. But the crucial point is [that] it is not just official Israeli spokespeople who are targeted—it is Jews, and Jewish students.

The anti-Jewish racism is even institutionalized, with organized hate-fests such as the so-called “Israel Apartheid Week,” which provides an annual umbrella for some of the most open and virulent anti-Semitism. . . . Eighty-three years after Kristallnacht, the ambassador of the world’s only Jewish state was attacked by a hate-filled mob on the streets of London. History is alive.

Read more on Jewish Chronicle: https://www.thejc.com/comment/leaders/on-the-anniversary-of-kristallnacht-a-jew-hunting-mob-on-the-streets-of-london-1.522409