Mick Hartley

Stephen Pollard at the JC, on Saturday’s Whitechapel march:

Given how close we are to the anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, which took place in the same area on 4 October 1936, you might think from my description that it was some sort of Blackshirt tribute gathering. And in some senses it was, not least because there is only one real difference between the 1936 marchers and those on the 2025 march: this time round the fascists are Islamofascists.

This masked mob didn’t only proclaim the supremacy of their ideology, as the Mosleyites did; they also took over the streets outside the East London mosque for prayers. And tellingly, this weekend’s mob weren’t only wearing black clothes; they had their faces covered with black masks. As some of the marchers put it: “No face, no case.”

The march – the so-called Tower Hamlets Unity Demo – was ostensibly an “anti-racist” protest, which is doubtless why the slogans chanted included “Takbir”, “Allahu akbar”, “Zionist scum, off our streets”, “We will honour all our martyrs”, “With our souls and our blood, we will redeem you, oh al-Aqsa” (translated), “The Zionist government off our streets”and – as always – “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. You get the gist. It is of course a golden rule of contemporary “anti-racist” protests that they must target Jews (I’m sorry, Zionists)….

The Tower Hamlets march was chilling as a more distilled version of the hate demonstrated on the national marches. Not just hate, but a programme and a cause: Islamist supremacy. The message was clear about Tower Hamlets: This is ours. We control the streets. We control the area. We control the people.

The Islamists, with their idiot hard-left supporters, have been emboldened by the complete lack of pushback from the authorities. For over two years now the marches in our cities, openly proclaiming Jew-hatred, have been allowed to proceed unhindered. Anyone objecting, like the Iranian man holding up the “Hamas are terrorists” sign, or the Jew showing his Star of David, has been arrested. Birmingham banned the Tel Aviv Maccabi fans largely due to Muslim pressure and threats.

They, the Islamists, could be forgiven now for believing that they’ve got the authorities running scared.