Players for the
English lower league soccer club Derby County bow their heads (above)
during a minute’s silence before the start of yesterday evening’s game against
Huddersfield Town, in memory of Hannah Bladon, who was murdered in the
Jerusalem terror attack on Good Friday.
Bladon, 20, was a
keen Derby County supporter who was studying for a semester at Jerusalem’s
Hebrew University. Thousands of fans from both Derby and Huddersfield (photo
below) stood in respect, while players from each team bowed their heads and
linked their arms.
Such expressions of
sympathy for the victim of an act of Palestinian terrorism are rare in Europe,
and many English soccer fans are notorious for their anti-Semitic chants about
sending Jews to gas chambers. (Bladon was not Jewish.)
“EXCEPT WHERE JEWS ARE THE INTENDED VICTIMS”
The BBC, although freely using the term
“terrorism” to describe other terror attacks last week, for example, on the St
Petersburg metro, on a Stockholm street, and in a Cairo church, refused to use
the term “terrorism” in relation to Friday’s Palestinian attack on Jerusalem’s
light railway, in which a pregnant Israeli woman was among the injured.
It is now standard practice for the BBC
to use the term terrorism when terror attacks are committed around the world
except from when Jews are the intended victims. (I have written about this
previously. See for example, The BBC discovers ‘terrorism,’ briefly. Suicide bombing seems different
when closer to home.)
HANNAH’S KILLER WILL NOW LIKELY BE REWARDED WITH BRITISH AID MONEY
Bladon from the town
of Burton-on-Trent in Derbyshire, was stabbed to death by a Jerusalem resident
and fellow railway passenger Jamil Tamimi, who comes from a well-known family
of Palestinian extremists, other members of whom have in the past also carried
out terror attacks on Israeli civilians.
Israeli media
reported that Bladon was standing near the terrorist on the train because she
had given up her seat to enable a woman who was holding a baby to sit down.
In a statement
Bladon’s parents said she “was the most caring, sensitive and compassionate
daughter you could ever wish for.”
The BBC has made much of the fact that the terrorist was psychologically
disturbed, as if many other terrorists aren’t and that in some way excuses the
politically-motivated context for his act – that in an atmosphere of near daily
incitement in the official Palestinian media calling on persons to carry out
acts of terror against Jews, he travelled across town to a Jewish neighborhood
in order to kill people there.
Ironically, Bladon’s
killer may now be rewarded courtesy of the British taxpayer. Palestinian
terrorists and their families receive hefty rewards for their acts of terror
from the Palestinian Authority -- using siphoned off British aid money.
RACHEL THALER, 16
At least Hananh’s death was covered in the British media. When I
interviewed the mother of Rachel Thaler, a British Jewish girl aged 16 who was
murdered by a Palestinian suicide bomber in an Israeli shopping mall, three and
a half years after her murder, her mother Ginette Thaler told me “Not a single
British journalist has ever interviewed me or mentioned Rachel’s death.”
I wrote about Rachel
Thaler in the article
The Forgotten Rachels, for the weekly magazine The Spectator in 2005, but since then she
has still not been mentioned in any other mainstream British publication. (The
Spectator also published the piece online under their heading “Dead Jews aren’t news -- even if they are British”.)
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