Thousands have rallied in London’s Trafalgar Square for a pro-Israel event, commemorating 100 days since the October 7th attacks and calling for the release of all hostages in Gaza. The BBC has this report:
People gathered in Trafalgar Square carrying Israeli flags and holding pictures of some of the 105 people still believed to be being held.
A chant of “Bring them home now” was also heard. …
The London event coincides with a 24-hour rally being held in the Israeli city of Tel Aviv.
Speakers in London included Israeli President Isaac Herzog, who appeared remotely on a large screen and said that “this battle belongs to the whole free world”. …
People in the crowd told the BBC they were worried the hostages were being forgotten and that they felt compelled to attend and show support for Israel.
Speaking from a stage set up beneath Nelson’s Column, one organiser said he had “never been prouder to be Jewish”.
The audience also heard from Conservative peer Lord Pickles and Labour MP Christian Wakeford.
Lord Pickles said that Gaza could be rebuilt and peace brought to the Middle East, but that such a process could only begin if “we bring the hostages home”. …
The weeks following the October 7th attacks saw what the Metropolitan Police described as a “massive increase” in antisemitic incidents in London.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Suela Braverman attended the rally and couldn’t help crying when hearing from relatives of the hostages. The Telegraph has more.
Stop Press 2: The BBC reported on the rally, but claimed it was to mark 100 days since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, not 100 days since the October 7th massacre.
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That little baby, who was 9 months old when he was captured by the savages along with his 4yr old brother and parents, turned 1yr old this month. Imagine spending 25% of your life in the hands of sick, hate-filled psychopaths who want you and your family dead? And is he even being held along with his mother? I dread to think of the plight of these kids being held, along with 130+ hostages in Gaza still.
”Pro-Palestine supporters are plotting to “shut down” the London Stock Exchange as part of their plans to cause a week of chaos in the UK.
Protesters from Palestine Action are planning to lock themselves to the gates of the building tomorrow, in a move that could result in “significant financial losses”.
The protest is set to be one of the group’s most disruptive yet, with an activist stating that “we just need to shut it down for the whole working day”.
Speaking to an undercover reporter from The Express, who posed as a potential recruit to the group for two months, the organiser said: “There’s the great chance that you can literally just shut down the London Stock Exchange.
They believe the physical disruption to workers would cause chaos, despite the stock exchange operating electronically: “Obviously people can trade on their phones nowadays [but] there’s going to be a lot of computers in there that people aren’t going to have access to. They could hold hundreds of millions of pounds worth of shares.”
The reporter learned of the group’s plans to cause turmoil tomorrow which will begin with two activists blocking the two revolving doors at the main entrance.
The duo is to be equipped with fire extinguishers containing red paint and they will position a ladder above their heads and then chain their necks to it with bike locks.
Whilst this is going on, the other members will lock themselves to all entrances to the building and will fire bank notes that have been painted red out of “money guns”.
https://www.gbnews.com/news/palestine-activists-plot-shut-down-london-stock-exchange
These people must have missed the classic-COVID era when the stock market carried on despite the global physical disruption to workers.
“The duo is to be equipped with fire extinguishers containing red paint and they will position a ladder above their heads and then chain their necks to it with bike locks.”
I have a solution – pull the firkin ladders up.
Protest will be dead – literally – after two minutes.
Sorted.
Yep, totally agree. Oh, and I see they just cannot keep away from my posts. Not a day goes by without the DS mafia removing bits of them. This is starting to feel personal. Maybe I just need to be abusive and swear more, eh?? They can’t get enough of censoring me around here. This message will self-destruct in 5, 4, 3, 2……
“Not a day goes by without the DS mafia removing bits of them.”
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If this has been expanded on or modified we should be told.
I would appreciate a response from the DS Editorial team.
Ta very much.
Cheers, hux. If I get a reply from the team I’ll let you know. If I don’t get an explanation from them about why I’m being censored regularly, when I’m not even swearing or being abusive, then I think that’s damn rude. They’re happy to take my money but they do the exact opposite of why I give them financial support in the first place! Crazy.
Why would I carry on supporting a site which is evidently *pro*-censorship, when it comes to its posters, and is demonstrably *anti* free speech? Has Clown World logic reached the DS site now? Because something’s changed, and as I’ve been posting regularly on here since 2020, it’s very noticeable.
And the least they could do is offer up an explanation, because it seems to me that the above ”Profanity and abuse” warning is for ornamental purposes only. Censorship by stealth, honestly!!
”Who was it on here that called these ”peaceful protests”? You should be bloody ashamed of yourselves for supporting this!!”
Anyone see anything wrong with that sentence and why it might need removed? Because this is what ”free speech” on the DS site looks like, apparently. Some jumped up mod, going round interfering and removing people’s posts. Well, mine, anyways. Pathetic.
And they are bloody ”mentalists” btw.
How can I find out when similar pro Israel demos are to be held. I could have attended today.
I love the last poster. How telling. Think – all the Israeli Palestinians and non- Jews in Israel are free including free to leave any time they want. It reminds me of a story told by British friends in Hamburg: it was not unusual for German factory workers, in their Mercedes cars, to offer left wing demonstrators a lift to the East German border but it seems none took up the offer.
Interesting, isn’t it, how those who tell us how to live don’t themselves. Why didn’t the western left go to USSR or even one of their communist colonies, green campaigners take private jets and do not live without modern industrial comforts, pro-Palestinians don’t go to live there or even in another Muslim country.
Odd so many who say they hate us want to live here, take our benefits and relatively safety rather than live in the (adjective) places they or their families came from.
these vigils are co-organised by several groups such as British Friends of Israel, Campaign Against Anti-Semitism, Christian Against Anti-Semitism
It would be interesting to know what the views of the downtickers are to the by comparison deliberately intimidating marches
Some went to USSR including the likes of Philby, Burgess and Maclean
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Is it true that Gaza is essentially an open-air prison, the 40 x 10km strip of land surrounded by a high wall and fence with 24/7 surveillance? Is it true there are watch towers along the wall/fence armed with machine-guns that are operated remotely? Is it true there is a single entrance to Gaza on the Israeli side, only open 6 days a week to ‘authorized’ Palestinians, and one entrance on the Egyptian side, open 5 days a week? Is it true there is a tightly controlled supply of goods allowed in or out? Is it true the inhabitants of Gaza are not allowed unrestricted fishing in the bordering waters of the Mediterranean? Is it true the people of Gaza have no possibility to address any issues with Israel by diplomatic means? Is it true there have been multiple occasions over several decades where uprisings have resulted in casualties on both sides of the border, with a ceasefire generally called after widespread destruction of residential areas in Gaza?
If the answer to the above questions is ‘yes’ then it is not difficult to understand how frustrating and hate-inducing it must be if you are born and brought up there.
Is it true that Israeli forces monitoring Gaza reported to their superiors that Hamas was rehearsing for an attack but were ignored? Is it true that on 7th October, after the outbreak of the Hamas armed militants, it took hours before there was any Israeli response? Were these inactions and delays due to incompetence or possibly even intended? Is it true that general pandemonium resulted and many Israelis and Israeli hostages were killed in friendly fire?
I do not know the correct answers to all these questions: how could I, since I have never been to Gaza and know neither any Israelis nor any Palestinians? But I do know, especially after the fake pandemic, that I have no trust in mainstream media reporting. For example, the media reports of raped women, beheaded infants, disembowelled pregnant women, and similar niceties have all turned out to be false – I believe.
How can any of us know who have not been there and seen things for their own eyes? Answer: we turn to our own trusted sources of information. In my case, I refer to Judge Napolitano on YouTube, The Grayzone, The Duran and others. Maybe they are all wrong, maybe they are all liars, but one thing I am certain about – without referring to anyone else – is that the mass killing of 24,000 Gaza civilians, of which apparently 70% are women and children, the destruction of their schools, hospitals and homes, and the obvious intention to continue these actions in response to the 1,200 Israeli lives lost is inexcusable and despicable.
And what of the future? How does Israel imagine its future relationship with the Palestinians will be? How can a long-term peace be conceived?
In my opinion, the only real solution is a dismissal of the master/slave mentality and the introduction of mutual respect for all inhabitants of the area. That this will not be possible in the foreseeable future is sadly obvious, certainly not with the current political leadership.
There have been peace treaties with both Egypt and Jordan, and though difficult to see at the moment there could be here too if at least the right of Israel to exist is recognised. I understand that the terms of a peace agreement with the PLO were more or less fully agreed years ago with the PLO including the position of East Jerusalem and the new settlements but Arafat at the time did not feel able to sign. Also understand the hope was that Hamas would change and use the billions to improve the lot of the inhabitants of Gaza rather than using the concrete for a mammoth underground network and water pipes for rocket launchers. Even now the whole dynamic could change if all hostages were released, and some sort of commitment to prevent a recurrence such as policing by the Egyptians, Jordanians and Saudis.
I think you are missing the point. It is not a question of locking down Palestinians more thoroughly – that will hardly solve the problem.
This is from the UN website, ‘The Question of Palestine’ (https://www.un.org/unispal/history/):
1917 – 1947: British mandate
Palestine was among former Ottoman territories placed under UK administration by the League of Nations in 1922. All of these territories eventually became fully independent States, except Palestine, where in addition to “the rendering of administrative assistance and advice” the British Mandate incorporated the “Balfour Declaration” of 1917, expressing support for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. During the Mandate, from 1922 to 1947, large-scale Jewish immigration, mainly from Eastern Europe took place, the numbers swelling in the 1930s with the Nazi persecution. Arab demands for independence and resistance to immigration led to a rebellion in 1937, followed by continuing terrorism and violence from both sides. UK considered various formulas to bring independence to a land ravaged by violence. In 1947, the UK turned the Palestine problem over to the UN. …
1947 – 1977: Partition plan, 1948, 1967, 1973 wars, inalienable rights
After looking at alternatives, the UN proposed terminating the Mandate and partitioning Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem internationalized (Resolution 181 (II) of 1947). One of the two envisaged States proclaimed its independence as Israel and in the 1948 war involving neighbouring Arab States expanded to 77 percent of the territory of mandate Palestine, including the larger part of Jerusalem. Over half of the Palestinian Arab population fled or were expelled. …
And so on and so forth.
I think it is definitely time that Israel restrained itself. And I still have no idea who had the ridiculous idea of setting up prisoner camps (e.g. Gaza) for the Palestinians – I need to read more – but I assume they were awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. What a world!
You ask who ‘had the ridiculous idea of setting up prisoner camps …’ but you’ve quoted it (in extenso), the UN. Gaza was part of Egypt until Egypt (and the other surrounding countries) kept failing in its attempts to destroy Israel. Despite that the Egyptians (and the other surrounding countries) want nothing to do with the people in Gaza. That should tell you something unlike the bizarre propaganda sites you visit.
20% of Israelis are muslim Arabs who participate fully in the only democracy in the region and are disproportionately over represented in pharmacies and in medicine and hold important positions in law and banking (and their own political parties). More Jews were expelled from the surrounding muslim nations after 1948 than muslims that fled Israel. They found a home in Israel and are not third or fourth generation refugees. Consider the absurdity of that idea for a start. The people in Gaza are hostages of Israel’s enemies, their fate and plight is awful to contemplate.
It’ true that Gaza is surrounded by a wall, machine gun posts etc. Look at what Hamas managed to do with all this in place, just imagine what they’d do if there was an open border or are you stupid enough to think that if Israel removed the wall Hamas would decide they no longer wanted to wipe Israel off the map and lay down their weapons.
Similarly look at how many weapons, including fairly high tech medium range rockets they managed to smuggle in with really tight controls, imagine what countries like Iran would supply them with if it all possible.
You now seem to think Hamas is a trusted source of information as they are the only people releasing claims about the number of casualties and yet you’re happy to quote whatever propaganda they come up with.
Mutual respect would be great, but when one side thinks that Jews are worse than pigs or dogs and celebrates the holocaust how do you suppose this is going to happen. Muslim hatred of Jews go’s back to the origins of Islam and isn’t going to resolved whatever happens in Israel.
Is it just a one sided hatred or should we consider that some Jews see not just Muslims but all non-Jews as inferior and created only to serve them?
Apart from the 20% of muslim Arab Israelis I assume, full and free members of the only democracy in the region. More likely that they see some muslims as bent on their elimination as stated often and in lurid detail.
“non-Jews” should be taken literally.
That explains the disproportionately high number of muslim Arab Israelis in high status occupations and positions of power I assume and those who volunteer for IDF service.
“some Jews” should be taken literally.
No true Scotsman, ackchually