Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Disgusting behaviour in Muswell Hill
The insensitivity and ignorance of this woman is off the scale.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/07/woman-filmed-cutting-ri...
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Permalink Reply by Iris Allan
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Permalink Reply by Martin (Woodside)
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Indeed, it's all over the news now, name and shame on its way.
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton
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Hath not Israelis and Palestinians eyes? Hath not these peoples both hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Needing the same foods and desiring the same clean waters? Subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer. If you tickle them do they not laugh? If they are pricked do they not bleed? If mortally wounded do they not die?
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter
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NOT to scale:
Is the ratio of killing by the IDF—of Palestinian civilians killed, divided by Hamas fighters killed—not also "off the scale" ?
Proportionality is one of the principles of International Law relating to warfare.
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I wholeheartedly agree Clive. This is because Hamas uses innocent Palestinians as human shields. It's a deliberate tactic.
The person who removed the ribbons has now been identified and I'm pleased to see that our neighbours have already replaced them.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson
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I’ve never understood the logic behind this frequent claim. So if someone was using, say a shop full of people in order to be avoid being shot by the police it’s ok to throw a bomb into the shop to kill the hostage taker even though the innocent shoppers are killed too?
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None of us are in Gaza. None of us are even allowed to read western newspaper journalists who are in Gaza because they aren't allowed in there. We have been able to read some Al Jazeera journalists. Those living in a tent were killed.
Let's take one point you focus on, Brian Mahoney, about Hamas using human shields.
Many people suggest Israel's army is guilty of the same practice. The Israeli organisation Breaking the Silence alleges that Israel's army follows the same practice - with Palestinians youngsters captured and used as Human Shields in similar ways. We can read these accounts fairly easily.
I know that the Israel army accuses Hamas of the same practice.
When I don't know something I don't post unevidenced, firm, supposedly factual statements on a local Haringey website. What's the point of holding on to a set of public beliefs about the Israeli Army which at best are a matter of hope and faith. And at worst may turn out to be part of two lists of war crimes. (The other by Hamas.)
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NEITHER side care much for the welfare of the other's civilians.
The intense hatred on each side is expressed equally by ~
- Hamas using hospitals as shields; and
- Netanyahu's army attacking hospitals
The other equality is represented by each side's total opposition to the only long-term, objective answer to the conflict, which is the two-state solution.
Such is the animus, that years may pass and many more lives will be lost before there is a lasting peace.
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Permalink Reply by David Cornwell
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Here we go. I think a few here are completely missing the point of why people are upset and angry because of this womans actions. Those ribbons were placed there as a mark of respect for all those who were murdered and captured by Hamas. Those innocent people of varying ages who for no fault of their own have been massacred or held captive for simply being Israeli jews. Its a symbol of hope, not anything symbolic of what Israel is doing in Palestine. That alone makes her actions deeply sad and problematic for many.
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"Here we go", you wrote David Cornwell.
As the writer of the previous comment I wondered whether you were responding to me? But in any case, David, please let me reply to you. I'll try to keep it short and simple.
My days are over for long walks in demos across London. And by the way, they weren't "hate marches" as described by some people. We marched for an end to the killing; which became genocide.
I don't know the man who tied up the yellow ribbons. Nor the woman who cut some down.
I think it's a pity they didn't seek one another out and talk together to see if there was a way they could walk and work together to mark the tragedy and suffering of both the innocent victims of Hamas and the innocent victims of the Israeli Government within Gaza.A friend of ours mentioned an Israel/Gaza demo she was on where they read out a list of names of humans who had been killed.
Do you need to know which side they were on? Why is that?
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I bet Iris is a right laugh at parties, eh.
As someone who loves the diversity and mix of peoples and cultures in our area, it's depressing to see the time and energy that a small minority of hard Right folk put into souring public spaces like this and using them to sow division. It creates a distorted perception of the neighbourhood and gives further oxygen to bigotry.
Still at least we all now know how to grass up suspicious looking 'foreigns' to the authorities, eh.
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Hugh D, I'm another Londoner who "... loves the diversity and mix of peoples and cultures in our area". And not just in London but far further afield.
I also try to remember the little we've learned about what's happening on either side of the Gaza fences. Where it seems that Nadia and her husband may personally know much more.
Sometimes I speculate on what happens to both the Israeli soldiers and the Gazan people now even more tightly held in their oceanside prison. Whom those Israelis must spend months and years guarding.A couple of buses can take me to rich Muswell Hill. On that day I might have stood in a sunny street watching Nadia snipping yellow ribbons. I have the curiousity, Would I have had the courage to pose some friendly questions to this passionate woman with scissors? I'd like to think so.
After all, no planes or drones were bombing Muswell Hill. No snipers were shooting unarmed demonstrators or badged medics.
How are you doing, Nadia? We live in Tottenham, but please ignore the scare stories.
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