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Jewish News 24 June 2021
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Cafe boss charged with peace breach over ‘F*** police’ bags The Jewish owners of a cafe in Scotland decided to use their shop display to advertise their views on law enforcement. For months, a bag emblazoned with the words “f*** the police” decorated the facade of The Pink Peacock in Glasgow, a hub for Jewish activists with an affinity for Yiddish and far-left causes, including anarchism. The shop front also features a Palestinian flag and the slogan “Jews and Queers for a Free Palestine” and a poster promoting a Yom Kippur Ball, a party the owners threw in 2019 on the Jewish Day of Atonement because it’s “feasting and rejoicing in the Jewish anar-
The offending bag in the shop front of The Pink Peacocks
chist tradition” according to the poster. On Monday, police in Glasgow confiscated the bag and charged one of the owners, 32-year-old Morgan Holleb,
of committing a breach of the peace – a criminal offence in that part of the UK. Two police officers seized the bag, calling it evidence, as Joe Isaac, another founder
of The Pink Peacock, filmed the incident. On Twitter, the founders wrote that the incident was “an obvious attempt to intimidate us” – and it “won’t work”. A police spokesperson told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency last Wednesday that the police attended following complaints by residents. In the video filmed by Isaac, Holleb is seen replacing the English-language tote bag with another in Yiddish. It reads “daloy polizei”, which means “down with the police”. The officers did not seem to mind the Yiddishlanguage bag.
Rabbi brick attack: two men deny charges Two men are to stand trial over the assault of a rabbi who was allegedly struck over the head with a concrete brick. Rabbi Rafi Goodwin
(pictured) needed hospital treatment for head injuries after the attack in Chigwell, north-east London on 16 May, Essex Police said. Abderrahman Brahimi, 25, and Souraka
Djabouri, 18, appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court last Wednesday, charged with wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm. The pair, both of Tudor
Crescent, Ilford, are also charged with robbery and religiously aggravated criminal damage. They deny the charges and were remanded in custody to face trial at a later date.
HET RESUMES ‘LIFECHANGING’ PROJECT A ‘life-changing’ programme run for students by the Holocaust Educational Trust (HET) will resume in Northern Ireland after government backing. Since 1999, HET’s Lessons from Auschwitz project has taken 41,000 students and teachers from across the UK to the former Nazi death camp, which also involves hearing from survivors. Of those, 540 students have been from Northern Ireland. The visit, which encourages participants to learn the history of the Shoah and its contemporary relevance, will now resume in the country after it was backed by the government’s education minister, Peter Weir. “This is an important programme for Northern Ireland, both in terms of education and good relations,” he said. “So I am keen to see a restoration of the programme so it is available to students here, and therefore I am
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delighted to confirm my commitment to its resumption.” The news was welcomed by HET, which said it was “delighted” and “grateful” for the government support. “Hundreds of students from across Northern Ireland have visited AuschwitzBirkenau as part of the Lessons from Auschwitz Project and thanks to this support from the Northern Ireland Executive, we will carry on providing this lifechanging opportunity,” said Karen Pollock, the charity’s chief executive.
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