His name is Ismail Hussein
You probably have not heard his name before
He is an unworthy victim
A Muslim
A person of color
An inconvenient truth to dispute a narrative
Stabbed on the same day, and by the same attacker, as two Jewish men in Golders Green
The day after the attacker was released from a secure mental health facility
Allegedly
His name is Ismail Hussein
He is an unworthy victim
In 2024 / 2025 there were 3,199 hate crimes against Muslims in England and Wales
In 2024 / 2025 there were 1,715 hate crimes against Jews in England and Wales
In 2024 / 2025 there were 3,809 hate crimes against Transgender individuals in England and Wales
All hate crimes are abhorrent
Just like Antisemitism and Genocide
Just like shadowy terrorist groups that at best are subcontracting out chaos to idiots
And at worst are a false flag attempt to manipulate public opinion
His name is Ismail Hussein
He is an unworthy victim
No Prime Ministers threatening to ban protests for him
No Chiefs of the Met attacking the only Jewish leader of a major political party
because they question kicking a man in the face while he lies prone on the ground having just been tazed
His name is Ismail Hussein
He is an unworthy victim
Intifada: uprising or rebellion
from the Arabic “to shake off”
From the river to the sea: A Palestinian phrase to describe a single state with Jews, Christians, and Palestinians living side by side
Also used by Netanyahu and the far right to describe a “Greater Israel”
Antizionist phrases
Not antisemitic
His name is Ismail Hussein
He is an unworthy victim
The far right marches through our streets
Spreading hate and fear for Muslims and anyone they consider the “other”
But let’s ban the marches against genocide
Let’s attack the only Jewish political party leader
All while we dismantle the government department that tracks war crimes in Israel and Lebanon
His name is Ismail Hussein
He is worthy
And we say his name to remind us that we are being manipulated
Losing our democracy to fear
The failures of our mental health system
And the oversimplification of geopolitics
His name is Ismail Hussein.
Word Outlet 
A Canadian columnist with The Globe and Mail wrote how during a post-10/7/23 concert at Vancouver’s Hollywood Theatre, “a band member said something about a free Palestine. This, according to attendee Hanah Van Borek, led to a few shouts from the audience: ‘F— the Jews!’ It was clearly audible in her area of the crowd, a person who was with her confirms, but nobody around them shut this down. There were some cheers of support, though. ‘My whole body went into shock,’ says Ms. Van Borek, who is Jewish.
“Ms. Van Borek left the venue and explained why to security staff. She says a worker encouraged her to go back inside and reassured her she was safe. ‘Nobody will be able to tell that you’re Jewish,’ he said, according to Ms. Van Borek. (Oy.) She did return to the show, but Ms. Van Borek was — and is — rattled. She supports the band’s right to make political statements. It was the shouts from this group — and the silence around them — that were alarming.” [The essay was posted October 26, 2023.]
I’ve long been, and still am, vocally critical of the (to put it mildly) clear decades-long maltreatment of and large-scale violence against the general Palestinian populace by the Israeli government and security/defense agencies — and, with few exceptions, the Western mainstream news-media’s seemingly intentional tokenistic (non)coverage of it. Nevertheless, I, likely due to not having Jewish heritage thus experience, never expected the level of anti-Semitic assaults in the West since the shocking 10/7/23 Hamas attack against Israel.
It’s plainly blatantly wrong for them to be mistreated and even terrorized, let alone suffering it supposedly for what is committed overseas. And it should be needless to say that Western-world Palestinians and Muslims similarly must not be collectively blamed and attacked for the acts of Hamas violence in Israel or Islamic extremist attacks outside the Middle East.
Immediately after the 10/7/23 attack, great insensitivity was publicly shown by some crazy-angry pro-Palestinian activists towards the many who were freshly mourning the Israeli victims, especially when considering that many or most young Israelis and Jews elsewhere likely were not accustomed to such relatively large-scale carnage committed against Israel.
Particularly concerning about all of the highly publicized two-way partisan exchanges of verbal fury, especially via social media, is: What will young non-Israeli Jewish, and Palestinian, children living abroad think and feel if/when they hear such misdirected vile hatred towards their fundamental identity?
Scary is the real possibility that such public outpour of blind hatred may lead some young people or even children to feel misplaced shame in their heritage. I even read that there has been an increase in the rate of suicide among younger or teenaged Jews/Semites since 10/7/23. I find it hard not to feel for them, as they (likely) didn’t ask for the horrors that have happened or are currently happening.
In the past few decades but apparently now more than ever, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has seen undeniably widespread partisanship via Internet and news commentary. The politics of polarization outside of Israel and even the Middle East, perhaps in part for its own sake, has gotten quite disturbing.
Within social media especially, the angry and thoughtless two-dimensional views have been especially amplified, including the majority posted by non-Jews and non-Palestinians. It all arouses a spectator-sport effect or mentality, with many contemptible trolls residing well outside the region yet actively supporting the ‘side’ [via politicized commentary posts] that they hate less. I anticipate many actually kept/keep track of the bloody match by checking the day’s-end death-toll score, however extremely lopsided those numbers.
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