Mick Hartley

The hard left groups are loving this: their moment in the sun. Nobody seems to have told them what the man said many years ago – "Antisemitism is the socialism of fools". 

From the Times:

Thousands upon thousands of pro-Palestine supporters converged on Trafalgar Square last Saturday for a protest headlined: “Ceasefire now!” Two hours beforehand, outside a branch of Barclays Bank in west London, a group of far-left activists who would later attend the main rally seemed to disavow calls for an end to violence.

One bearded demonstrator, wearing a cloth cap and speaking with a slight Geordie accent, grabbed the microphone and bellowed: “Israel is in an offensive position. It is an occupying force! So we have to say … we do not agree with ceasefire.”

To whoops and cheers, he said: “We unconditionally support the Palestinian resistance. We unconditionally support the right of oppressed and colonised people to resist their oppression. We say loudly and clearly, so everyone on this high street can hear us, that resistance is justified when Palestine is occupied.”

The midday rally was organised by the Revolutionary Communist Group (RCG), which wants to build an anti-imperialist, socialist movement in Britain.

The movement — also referred to by the name of the newspaper it publishes Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! — was founded in 1974 and takes inspiration from communist Cuba.

On its website, it calls Britain “a parasitic, imperialist power … in relative decline”….

RCG leaders had planned to hold an earlier march outside the Israeli embassy, in Kensington, but were blocked from doing so by the Metropolitan Police.

Instead they held a 50-strong demo outside a nearby Barclays, where they accused the bank of being complicit in Israeli war crimes.

As poppy sellers sold their pins in the bank’s lobby, protesters blocked the entrance with a “zionism is racism” banner and plastered the front with signs saying: “Victory to the intifada”.

Then, as officers from the Met watched from the sidelines, a series of speakers whipped up the crowd with anti-Israel speeches.

A second young speaker, a Londoner, dressed in a black cap, puffa jacket and trainers, boomed into the mic: “I say, Israel has no right to defend itself. Israel has no right to exist.” He called for Israel to be “smashed” and torn down “brick by brick”.

Protesters were led in successive chants of “From the River to the Sea”, which has garnered criticism over its connotation that it refers to Israel being wiped out.

At one point, police were seen in discussions with Nicki Jameson, an RCG steward, over her placard which also used the same phrase.

She told officers: “I’m holding on to it — if you want to arrest me, get on with it.” They declined….

After the Barclays protest, the RCG protesters boarded the Tube in Kensington and headed for Trafalgar Square, where a video of them chanting for intifada, or civil uprising, went viral.

A young man, wearing a black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, who had also spoken in front of the bank, yelled into a megaphone: “There is only one solution.” The crowd on the train, backed by a drummer, responded: “Intifada, revolution.”

Once in Trafalgar Square for the 2.30pm protest, the RCG gave a microphone to the same speakers who had addressed crowds in Kensington.

There, the speaker who declared that Israel has no right to exist, said: “All they’ve been doing is yapping about hostages, hostages, hostages … Israel has 10,000 Palestinians in prison.”

He called for “no compromises with the moderates” and said that if they kept up the cause: “In our lifetime, the flag of Palestine will fly over Jerusalem.”

Another small group of protesters in Trafalgar Square held a sign directly comparing Israel to the Nazis.

The homemade placard merged the Israeli flag with a swastika, featured slogans saying that Israel was “founded on Jewish supremacy” and compared their soldiers to gun-wielding Nazis.

Back again today.

These idiots may be the foolish gullible young, who are at the age when they seize on this kind of ignorant moral absolutism and think that they're cheering on a bunch of freedom fighters, but in the real world, and especially in the Muslim world, Hamas is cheered on by people who know exactly what motivates them.