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"A #ReformUK mayoral candidate has described members of a #Jewish neighbourhood watch group as “cosplayers” and likened them to “#Islamists on horseback” in comments made after an attack on #ambulances run by a Jewish charity.

#ChrisParry, who remains #Reform’s mayoral candidate for #Hampshire despite a previous controversy in which he said #DavidLammy should “go home” to the #Caribbean, made the comments on Monday about #Shomrim, a group of volunteers who safeguard communities including #Orthodox Jewish families.

#Parry, a retired rear admiral, retweeted a post on X by #CatherineBlaiklock, a co-founder of the #Brexit party, hours after news of the attack on the ambulances in north #London emerged.

Shomrim works alongside #Hatzola, the charity #ambulance service that was targeted by #arsonists early on Monday morning and provides #emergency #medical response and transportation to #hospitals for both Jewish and non-Jewish people."

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/23/reform-mayoral-candidate-likens-jewish-community-group-to-islamists-on-horseback

Reform mayoral candidate likens Jewish community group to ‘Islamists on horseback’

Chris Parry describes Shomrim members as ‘cosplayers’ hours after arson attack in north London

The Guardian

I live in a city that spawned Trump and is surely spawning his successors; whose real estate industry foments a terrifying mix of Zionism, colonialism, neoliberalism, police brutality, and so on; where global capital hides its stolen treasures in guarded towers, and the middle classes from around the world come to bask in the shadows of those towers, hoping one day to occupy them.

#NYC #wendigo #israel #NYPD #shomrim #schumer #trump #zionism #realestate

Living in Brooklyn has taught me a lot about the ties between the US and Israel. The logic of white supremacy, because it directly supports the logic of settler colonialism and patriarchy, has been adopted by Zionist members of the Hasidic community, like so many other European immigrant communities before them. What's happening in Gaza is what's happening in Brooklyn, and vice versa.

#NYPD #Shomrim

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/31/palestinians-hold-day-of-mourning-after-773-shot-with-live-ammunition

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/05/grim-racist-methods-of-one-brooklyn-landlord.html

https://www.thedailybeast.com/meet-the-shomrimthe-hasidic-volunteer-cops-who-answer-to-nobody