Mick Hartley

Liverpool Street station was brought to a standstill on Tuesday evening by Palestinian activists, while frightened Jews made sure to stay away. The police, of course, did nothing.

British Transport Police (BTP) was accused of “complete acquiescence” over a sit-in at Liverpool Street.

About 500 activists blockaded the station during rush hour on Tuesday night chanting “ceasefire now”, while some shouted “from the river to the sea”. BTP were asked why they did not deploy protest legislation, created this year to prevent Just Stop Oil disrupting national infrastructure.

So who organised the protest? It was, predictably a leftist group of, um, feminists – Sisters Uncut.

Hadley Freeman at the JC:

I am a professional grown-up, so I’ve been trying to formulate a professional and grown-up response to news that the feminist group Sisters Uncut organised a pro-Palestine protest in Liverpool Street Station on Tuesday night, where provocative slogans were chanted as well as demands for a ceasefire. But I’m afraid all I’ve come up with is: are you all on glue?

Let’s start with Sisters Uncut specifically before getting into the wider issue of calls for an Israeli ceasefire generally.

Sisters Uncut is a feminist group that emerged as a response to government’s cuts to services for victims of domestic violence. Since then, they have at times seemed a bit – shall we say – confused about their mission.

One of the last causes they campaigned for before they began obsessively tweeting about the evils of Israel was to defend someone known as Sarah Jane Baker, a transwoman who previously spent 30 years in prison for kidnap and attempted murder. This summer, at a rally in London, Baker called for feminists to be punched in the face.

Truly, a natural cause célèbre for a feminist group! So we shouldn’t expect logic from them. But nonetheless, let’s deal with their demands for an Israeli ceasefire.

It just so happened that on the day Sisters Uncut held their protest – which was joined by an estimated 500 people – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken testified before the Senate Appropriations Committee about what he had seen of the slaughter in Israel.

He described one Israeli family in a kibbutz who were tortured by Hamas terrorists. The father’s eyes were gouged out, the mother’s breasts sliced off, the eight-year-old girl’s foot cut off, the six-year-old boy’s fingers cut off.

They were all then executed, and their killer then sat down and ate the breakfast the family had been enjoying together before hell emerged in their home.

Then there are the stories of pregnant women sliced open and their foetuses beheaded, elderly women raped, young women paraded through the streets with bloodied trousers – all by Hamas.

Even aside from the horrors of October 7, let’s look at women’s status under Hamas. In Gaza, there are no laws protecting women from physical or sexual violence within a family. Women are wildly discriminated against within the justice system there, with rules such as women needing to pay to obtain a divorce (free to men, of course) and requiring male permission to travel. Israel, by contrast, is the only country in the Middle East with full rights granted to women.

Campaigning for the rights of the Palestinians is not the same as campaigning for Hamas. But it is genuinely mind-boggling that Sisters Uncut and others of their ilk aren’t making the obvious connection here, and campaigning AGAINST Hamas….

Hamas leaders have said they will do it again and again until Israel no longer exists, because they are psychopathic terrorists who want to wipe out Jews and don’t care about their own citizens. That is why this war is happening.

So all of these protesters and politicians shouting for peace and a ceasefire would look less deluded if they offered any plan for how to achieve this, because without that, they might as well make a wish on a dove.

Unless looking good matters more to them than doing good, in which case, by all means, carry on guys.

Short version: these people are virtue-signaling idiots.

Update:

Liverpool Street was the station where refugee Jewish children from Germany were brought in 1938/39. There is a memorial to the Kindertransport programme in the station forecourt. Was that why it was chosen?