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300,000 Anti-Israel Activists Protest in London on Armistice Day


An estimated 300,000 folks flooded onto the streets of London on Saturday to protest towards Israel regardless of appreciable backlash over the demonstration coinciding with Armistice Day, upon which the British folks honour their fallen conflict heroes.

Antisemitic chants and placards had been recorded throughout London as roughly 300,000 pro-Palestine protesters took to the streets in what’s believed to be the biggest anti-Israel demonstration for the reason that Hamas terror assaults on October seventh when over 1,400 folks had been brutally murdered by the Islamist terrorists.

The so-called “Nationwide March for Palestine”, which was reportedly partially organised by no less than three Islamic teams with direct ties to Hamas, got here because the Metropolitan Police refused to ban the protest regardless of objections over it being held on Armistice Day, the anniversary of the top of the First World Battle upon which the nation commemorates the sacrifices of its troopers.

Whereas the institution media centered closely earlier within the day on the minor scuffles that broke out between police and so-called “far proper” members of the general public who got here to pay their respects on the Cenotaph, to this point little consideration has been paid to the outbreaks of violent assaults from pro-Palestinian protesters.

Exterior Victoria Station, the place anti-Israel activists staged a sit-in protest, two males had been assaulted by a bunch carrying sticks as police had been nowhere to be seen.

In the meantime, contained in the station, authorities minister Micheal Gove was pressured to flee with police safety as a bunch of pro-Palestinian protesters tried to mob him. Residents merely promoting Armistice Day poppies had been additionally accosted by mobs.

Though there was a lot clamouring from the institution commentariat about supposed “racists” who got here to London for Armistice Day, there have been many outright racist placards waved through the pro-Palestine march, together with one which depicted Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Residence Secretary Suella Braverman — each of whom have Indian heritage — as coconuts, a racial slur usually utilized by the left to deride ethnic minority conservatives as being brown on the surface and white on the within.

One other signal that has drawn criticism confirmed the flags of Britain, america, France and Israel as being the “white aspect” whereas the flags of the Congo, East Turkestan, Palestine, and Sudan as being branded because the “proper aspect” of historical past.

Many antisemitic placards and chants had been additionally seen on the demonstration, together with indicators that includes the Nazi swastika in addition to indicators evaluating the battle in Gaza to the Jewish Holocaust in World Battle II. Antisemitic chants corresponding to “from the river to the ocean” which have seemingly turn into commonplace in Britain, had been additionally heard through the protest. A few of the protesters had been even filmed carrying Hamas-style headbands.

“These ‘pro-Palestine’ mobs in London are a menacing shame, and are essentially anti-British,” remarked former assist to Margaret Thatcher Nile Gardiner in response to

Whereas the Metropolitan Police refused to ban the protest, regardless of appreciable backlash from the general public over the disrespect to the nation’s veterans, earlier within the day, the Met used their in depth powers to curtail protests to preventatively arrest 82 “counter-protesters” to supposedly stop a “breach of the peace”.

In response to the protest, Conservative MP Neil O’Brien stated: “I’ve bought each sympathy with those that need the violence within the Center East to finish – however zero sympathy with this rabble of racists, cranks, antisemites and moronic terrorism-glorifiers.”

Reclaim Social gathering chief Laurence Fox stated: A nation divided towards itself can’t stand. These previous weeks have revealed the true scale of what’s an existential cultural chasm between those that want to destroy the whole lot in regards to the West, and people who want to protect it.

“We’re going to discover out who believes of their trigger extra. I recommend if we would like a future for our kids, we begin to take what’s going on extra severely.”

Comply with Kurt Zindulka on Twitter: or e-mail to: kzindulka@breitbart.com



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