This was found daubed on a wall in Goulston Street near one of the horrific murders ascribed to "Jack The Ripper" in Whitechapel in London. It's a good example of Semantic Spam because you cannot really attempt to criticize it in detail without coming under the spell of its insolent ambiguity. Someone is playing word games even as four defenceless women are being mutilated. The allusion to Jewish Global Conspiracy Theories and ritual murder is disgusting indeed. But very typically, you cannot prove that allusion. -- Richard Drake

The writing was in some buildings near one of the murders, and the bloody corner of the victim's apron was found on the floor below, fairly conclusive proof that either the murderer or an accomplice wrote the text. Just out of interest, "Juwes" has nothing to do with Jews, but refers to Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum who murdered Hiram Abif and were eventually found and ritually killed. See Masonic history for more info. -- Alan Bickford (here)

I was very aware from The Ripper And The Royals that "Juwes" is said by masons to refer to these three mythical characters at the time of the building of Solomon's temple. This is one of many pieces of evidence that masons and masonic symbolism may have been involved in these horrific murders. But my comments stand. Whoever wrote this, in such dreadful circumstances, was not trying to clarify anything. And they would have been fully aware that the terrified, ordinary people of the East End of the 1880s, unaware of masonic mythology, would take this to be a reference to the Jews who by that time were very numerous in the area, with all the normal Anti-Semitism that went with that. -- Richard Drake