Guardian Calls Nazi-Style Vandalism Against Jewish-Identified Bakery ‘Petty Symbolism’
18th March 2026
Note to the British socialists at The Guardian: Smashing up the windows of Jewish-linked establishments does not have a glorious history.
Jonathan Liew’s offensive column in the often-offensive far-left U.K. newspaper The Guardian is introduced this way: “A corner of north London where food has become a battleground in the Israel-Gaza war — A smashed window here, a provocative sticker there. In an age when protest feels increasingly meaningless, it’s no wonder that acts of petty symbolism are on the rise.”
The “smashed window” subhead refers to the violent vandalism suffered by a newly opened branch of Gail’s, an upscale bakery chain in the United Kingdom. Liew, who has a pattern of anti-Jewish columns, casually passed along why Gail’s windows had been shattered in the name of Palestine. The column’s timing makes it even nastier, in the wake of attacks on Jewish schools in Europe and a synagogue in the United States.
But first came a self-conscious, densely detailed description of a meal at the nearby sainted Palestinian café, which comes off like a Pete Wells food review suffering indigestion.