Mick Hartley

More on that Whitechapel march yesterday.

It was meant to be a response to the planned UKIP march in the East End, which the Met banned anyway. Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman ludicrously compared this turn out of masked thugs to Cable Street. The thing is, Cable Street was against the Jew-hating rabble-rousers, whereas these marchers here are the Jew-hating rabble-rousers. They were chanting ‘Allahu Akbar’ and ‘Zionist scum off our streets’. Cable Street this was not.

Brendan O’Neill in the Spectator:

Isn’t it interesting what gets called ‘bigotry’ and what does not? Apparently Ukippers hollering about ‘Islamist invaders’ is racism, but Islamist gangs threatening to hound ‘Zionists’ off ‘our streets’ is not. In fact that’s anti-racism. What a moral mess we are in. 

That the left fumes about UKIP but is more than happy to march with Zionist-hating, martyr-praising Islamists is so revealing. It reveals they could not give one damn about Britain’s Jews. They have sacrificed the safety and dignity of British Jewry at the altar of sectarianism, in order that they might preserve the unholy alliance they have made with radical Muslims who share their obsessive anti-Westernism.

When will the left learn what a colossal folly it is to link arms with religious hotheads who hate homosexuals, who think women should be draped in black, and who want to drive Jews — oh I’m sorry, ‘Zionists’ — out of society? There’s a clip doing the rounds showing a placard-waving leftie saying to one of the masked Muslims, ‘We’re on the same side, bruv’. There comes a stark reply: ‘No we’re not.’ The Islamo-left needs to wake up. The road to hell is paved with their suicidal idiocy.