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Judith Moritz

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147 total appearances

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Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

Twelve.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

I'm quite creative, so I like playing hockey and kind of drawing and stuff like that.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

I feel like thinking about the news all the time would just make me a bit depressed.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

Yeah, and it would kind of not make me enjoy life as much as usual.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

I'm 13 and yeah, they're pretty scary, especially because they happen so close to where I live.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

But I haven't experienced it personally ever.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

You know, it's really interesting.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

And look, it's great, isn't it, to hear Jewish kids saying we've not experienced this.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

I think that what they are experiencing, though, and certainly you heard there from the boy who's going to a Jewish school who has to get through that security, is this normalisation.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

even though they may not themselves have been targeted or have experienced, thankfully, any sort of abuse, what they have done is had to navigate perhaps security measures and other protocols that non-Jewish children won't have done.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

Now, that, of course, doesn't apply to everybody.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

There are plenty of Jewish people in the UK who haven't experienced anti-Semitism.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

I think that

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

The more overt you are, the more you display signs of your Jewish faith and culture, perhaps in the area you may be in, the more likely one might think you may be to experience it.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

So, you know, we have come across during the making of the panorama and our other work, we've come across Jewish men saying that they won't go out and about showing their skull cap, their kippah.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

One man told us that he has gone and bought a baseball cap this weekend so that when he goes into central London...

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

He's not displaying that sign.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

I've spoken to women who say that they have taken steps to take off their Star of David necklace, although one woman then said, actually, no, I thought she said, I'm going to be proud about this.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

I'll put it back on and see what happens.

Newscast
Is Being Jewish Unsafe in the UK?

So it's that sort of thing, or perhaps the ultra-Orthodox members of the community who you will see wearing traditional garb.