UK: Leeds University Jewish Chaplain and his family forced to go into hiding because of death threats by phone calls and text messages from pro-Hamas Muslims on campus.
Daily Mail (h/t Marvin W) ‘Tell that Jewish son of a b*tch we’re coming for him,’ went one of the more sinister calls, picked up by Nava at about midnight. ‘We’re coming to his house and we’re going to kill him in his house and you as well you f*cking racist b*tch, sl*g.’ Another said: ‘We are going to get you, we’re going to get your husband and we are going to get you as well, love. It’s as simple as. How dare you come to Leeds and expect the Muslims not to do ‘owt, when all you lot have been doing is killing innocent children?’
The death threats came thick and fast at the modest home near Leeds University where Rabbi Zecharia Deutsch lives with his wife Nava and their two small children. Then there were hostile texts, popping up through last Thursday evening, which variously threatened to raid their home, murder various members of the family, rape Nava and carry out a selection of other unspeakable acts. ‘Oi, you ugly c*nt,’ said one directed to Zecharia at 1.30am. ‘Gonna be waiting for you, you daft c*nt. Gonna bend your wife over.’
By the time Friday came around, the couple had received a total of roughly 300 calls and messages. Almost all came from men, with thick Yorkshire accents, who exuded a combination of virulent anti-Semitism and calculated menace.
On the advice of police, Rabbi Deutsch, who is Leeds University’s Jewish Chaplain, promptly left his home and moved his family into hiding. They have remained there ever since. Their harrowing experience, revealed by the Daily Mail last Saturday, offers a sobering insight into the toxic brand of anti-Semitism that has infected Britain’s University campuses following the Hamas terror attacks of October 7.
It also lays bare the ugly reality of the hostility Jews in the UK have suffered during Israel’s subsequent military action in Gaza. This ‘explosion in hatred’ has seen racist attacks against them increase by 149 per cent, according to figures released this week.
So what triggered the death threats? The answer is deeply unsettling. Ugly events at Leeds University turn out to have been the end result of a highly aggressive social media campaign, organized by a collection of Free Palestine campaigners, podcasters and Left-wing journalists, including a local Guardian columnist.
It all culminated in the release of a revolting online video that branded the Jewish chaplain ‘this creep,’ calling him a ‘kind of animal,’ an ‘absolute low-life,’ ‘absolutely disgusting’ and ‘shameful,’ and falsely claiming that he had, in recent weeks, deliberately attempted to ‘kill women and children’ in Gaza.
This grotesque piece of material — which like all the ugliest propaganda is both factually inaccurate and dehumanizing — was, I can disclose, made by a high-profile Leeds YouTuber named Mothin Ali.
For Deutsch and his family, there was a more pressing concern. The Rabbi happens to be an Israeli citizen (he came to Leeds in 2021 to work for University Jewish Chaplaincy, a charity which provides rabbis at seats of learning). That in turn means he must serve as a military reservist until the age of 40.
In the immediate aftermath of the Hamas attacks, Deutsch was therefore, like many thousands of his countrymen, instructed to return to Israel to temporarily join his unit in the IDF, the country’s armed forces.
The post is notable for its heated tone and the dehumanising way in which it describes the Jewish chaplain. ‘This creep, that’s the only way I can describe him, is someone who went from Leeds to Israel to kill children and women and everyone else over there,’ it begins, neatly ignoring the fact that Deutsch went to Israel because he was legally required to.
Ali continues his message by branding the chaplain an ‘animal’ (a rhetorical trick once commonly used by Nazi propagandists), saying ‘We [Muslims] are treated as second-class citizens and Leeds University is violating safeguarding standards. You should be protecting people. You should be protecting students from this kind of animal, because if he’s willing to kill people over there, how do you know he’s not going to kill your students over here?’
Of course, viewers swiftly took the bait. On TikTok there were 340 comments about the video, some of them virulently anti-Semitic. ‘He’s a terrorist, psychopath and paedo,’ reads one. ‘Zio lunatics pathetic savages beastly f*cks always ugly deranged f*cks they need to be put in nutters asylum or concentration camps,’ goes another. ‘I am beginning to believe the Holocaust is a myth, we seeing the lies and propaganda,’ said a third commentator.
Jewish groups disagree. A spokesman for the Campaign Against Antisemitism said: ‘This sort of rhetoric and the reaction that it elicited shows how dangerous social media can become. Mothin Ali’s baseless and inflammatory accusations and the anti-semitic vitriol in the comments to his video have surely contributed to the climate that forced the Rabbi and his family into hiding.’
We need to turn this around and give it back to them. All Jews and supporters need to give this back or are we the ones who let us be slapped in the face without slapping back.
Common sense would cause people to reject Muslims but common sense is dead.
“dirty zionists”
It’s usually the anti-Israel people who aren’t bothered about showering
Around 82 million islamocritical White Christians ✝️ would do well to follow in the footsteps of Baruch Goldstein, Alexandre Bissonnette and Brenton Tarrant, en masse and ASAP, before the Moslem population reaches critical mass within a decade all across the West and Eastern Europe!