Published on 12, July, 2020
I am one of a few Jews living in a small Norfolk town. I already have strikes against me being an autistic American with no friends who has experienced my car being "keyed", having two tyres let down, damage to recently installed fencing on my driveway. Now with this Israelie war and an apparent widspread refusal in the UK population to condemn the barbaric attack by Hamas as reported on our News media --- am I being unnecessarily anxious?
It depends.
Why do you assume it's Anti-Semitism? Lots of people get bullied/harangued/harassed and get their property vandalised and the reasons can be unclear unless they actually voiced something. There doesn't even need to be a reason sometimes - people can just be 'inside-out' and looking for a target. Have they actually said anything about Judaism to you? Are you on a local authority estate?
Not sure where you're getting the idea that UK pop' would ever condone any of what's happened?? The whole thing is horrific.
If I was a black *** man before all this woke nonsense infiltrated this society --- would your reply still be the same? [edited by moderator]
NAS86592 said:If I was a black negro man before all this woke nonsense infiltrated this society
Has it crossed your mind that these sorts of opinions, verbalised here without heed of whether others see things the same, could be alienating you from people?
NAS86592 said:There is no "bone of contention" with any of my neighbours. I have neither said or done anything to warrent such action to be taken.
If they consider you to be something undesirable (as I hypothesised they may consider you a dodgy pedo on the run from US justice or some other rubbish) then they may see this as justification enough to make your life miserable,
Maybe they are just a-holes and this is what the do for fun. Who knows.
The point is that it will probably continue until you get to know them and let them see you are a decent bloke after all. You shouldn't have to do this, but it seems the best way out of the current situation.
On a purely practical note I would also look to setup some CCTV to monitor your car and catch whatever scumbag is keying it and report them to the police for criminal damage.