Okay, I’m really not sure about the whole hate crime thing, but one thing that I have said in the past is that if you’re going to have hate crimes laws, then a hate crime is a hate crime. Except in the U.K., that is, where anti-Semitic attacks were not pursued as hate crimes—in the nation where the state-owned media refuses to use the word “terrorist.”
But they’ve finally figured out that maybe anti-Semitism should be included in the hate crimes tabulation, because, gee, picking on someone because they’re Jewish might be, you know, hateful.
British police will begin recording anti-Semitic crimes as racist attacks starting next year. The government also pledged additional funds to monitor anti-Semitic incidents in the country.
“Anti-Semitism has not been taken as seriously as other forms of hatred in some parts of our society,” Iain Wright, the parliamentary under secretary of state for communities and local government, said during a July 19 discussion of Britain’s All Party Inquiry into Anti-Semitism.
Yeah, maybe that’s why anti-Semitic attacks in Britain are at their highest in years. Because the perpetrators know the Brits aren’t all that big on stopping them. Not when the BBC allows anti-Semitic comments while taking down other racist slurs.
About those comment Nazis. That’s why I have moderated comments, and the No-Israel Bashing rule. That’s the way this place will stay.