Comment on UK allocates £250m for policing in Jewish communities
flamingos@feddit.uk 2 days agoNo, the £40 million is for Muslim community centres, it’s just part of a larger scheme. I don’t know how you got to that reading.
They do indeed sound like the ‘special’ minority. Maybe it’s all the government lobbying (meddling) Isreal does to get them special treatment.
You understand that this is a deeply fucked up thing to say, right? There has been a genuine rise in antisemitic hate crime in the UK and the idea that the governments actions to address that must be because of Israel not only makes Israel look good, it unjustly links British Jews to Israel.
You can’t ignore the fact Muslims always have especially more recently been at the receiving end of a lot of unjustified hate. Where is their additional hundreds of millions in funding?
I agree that the government isn’t doing anywhere near enough to protect Muslims, but that isn’t the question I was responding to. It was about funding for Mosque security with the implication that it was 0, which it’s not.
Bassman27@lemmy.world 2 days ago
You literally said to fund places of worship. I didn’t realise that was a Muslim exclusive term.
Look at the amount of funding that goes to political parties coming from Isreal not just in the Uk but globally. How was this cash injection affected policy? I’d argue looking at the UK and US that the effect is huge. If it wasn’t a thing there wouldn’t have been a debate about it in parliament last month.
If even you can admit they’re not doing enough to support a faith who have been the target of hate crimes since the early 2000s you can’t really be defensive when someone calls you out on the funding discrepancy.