Mick Hartley

It's all set to kick off:

Anti-Israel activists are plotting simultaneous sit-ins at ten of London’s biggest railway stations to bring the capital to a standstill, the JC can reveal.

One of the ringleaders is Yaz Ashmawi, who covered Sir Keir Starmer in glitter at the Labour Party conference in October. He is joined by radicals from Extinction Rebellion and Just Stop Oil.

The plan for November 18 was set out at a meeting on Tuesday by the organisers of last weekend’s protest at Charing Cross, which featured swastika signs and forced bosses to close the station.

That's next weekend, of course. This Saturday the plan is to shut down just the three stations – Charing Cross, Victoria and Waterloo – which would cause huge disruption, especially for people coming to the Armistice Day ceremony.

And yes, they're planning ahead. Every weekend from now on – every weekend – we'll be seeing more and bigger and more disruptive displays of Jew-hatred in London.

Fears are mounting that breakaway anti-Israel crowds, heard at previous rallies calling for an “intifada from London to Gaza”, could obstruct Armistice Day ceremonies at the Cenotaph.

The JC can also disclose that the organisers of the May 2021 convoy through north London — which saw some activists driving through Jewish neighbourhoods with megaphones shouting about how they wished to rape Jewish women — are planning further convoys alongside Saturday’s “Million March”.

“It is chilling to think that the infamous antisemitic car convoy could be repeated on Remembrance weekend,” said Lord Pickles, Lords chair of Conservative Friends of Israel.

“The prospect adds to an already volatile situation, and it risks further escalating anti-Jewish racism and tarnishing what is a sacred weekend for many millions of Brits. It is high time the Metropolitan Police stepped up to the situation and closed down these harmful protests.”

Well, that's not going to happen.

Earlier in the week the JC revealed that the organiser of the May 2021 pro-Palestinian convoy, Razaq Hussain, was organising another “Convoy 4 Palestine” that will travel to London from Bradford this coming weekend.

In the 2021 incident, groups of cars sporting Palestinian flags were driven through north London’s Jewish areas while their occupants shouted abuse at bystanders. There were calls to “f*** the Jews, f*** all of them, f*** their mothers, rape their daughters and show your support for Palestine”. There is no suggestion that Hussain had any involvement in those events.

In a speech at a rally in Bradford last weekend, Hussain, in referring to Israel, talked about “Zionist pigs” and urged his audience to “stick the middle finger up to the politicians” who stood by Israel. Another speaker asked the crowd if they condemned the Hamas [pogrom]. In reply, they shouted “no!”.