The Metropolitan Police has urged the organisers of pro-Palestinian demonstrations to postpone events due to take place on Armistice weekend.
Thousands are expected to take part in a march in London on 11 November, the same day some Remembrance events are planned in the capital.
Home Secretary Suella Braverman welcomed the Met's statement, which warned of potential disorder.
Organisers had said they would avoid the area where the Cenotaph is located.
But the Met warned of a "growing" risk of violence and disorder fuelled by breakaway groups linked to the protests.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Ade Adelekan said: "This is of concern ahead of a significant and busy weekend in the capital.
"Our message to organisers is clear: Please, we ask you to urgently reconsider. It is not appropriate to hold any protests in London this weekend."
A statement from the force said it had spoken with organisers on Monday from several groups, and that they had "declined to postpone" any demonstrations.
The route of the pro-Palestinian march on Saturday runs from Hyde Park to the US Embassy in south London. It does not pass through Whitehall.
No large demonstration is planned for Remembrance Sunday.
Organisers have pointed out the Saturday march is due to begin almost two hours after the national two minutes' silence of commemoration.
Lindsey German of Stop the War - which is one of six groups listed as an organiser - said: "We met the police today and argued that we wanted to march and were determined to go ahead.
"We believe that this is a denial of our civil liberties and our freedom of expression."
Met Police urges pro-Palestinian march organisers to delay demo - BBC News
Gonna go all Pete Tong
Shalom
Tax does not think for himself. He is incapable of independent thought. Like many English gammons he is simply the expression of a resentment based on prejudice, ignorance and xenophobia which is given form by rehearsing the rhetoric he sucks up from right wing ideologues pontificating from the pulpit of their shill newspapers pandering to the societal extremists who want to see Britain returned to the 19th century. In short, he is blinkered, hidebound, tunnel visioned and frightened someone will take his money away in tax and hates sharing his imaginary nostalgia drenched vision of what Britain was like in the 1950s before the country was overrun by coons, Pakis, Banglas, Wobblers and anyone who is not a Christian or Jew.
Really, he simply regurgitates what he reads in the Daily Telegraph and that’s it.
Yesterday the secretary general of the UN pronounced that Gaza had now become a graveyard for children. The sheer enormity of the murderous onslaught by the Israelites upon the Palestinian people has finally impacted upon even the dimmest. Except of course fossilised psychos impervious to reality, the cvunts in the IDF, the pig Nettyfuckpoo, and all the Old Testament Jew fuckers who are taking a giant shit upon the Palestinians using Hamas’ reaction to decades of oppression as an excuse for wreaking a genocide against them.
I never had much thoughts upon the Jewish faith inasmuch I have always regarded all religions as an absurdity and the province of the deluded and stupid. In short I couldn’t give a fuck what they believe in.
But after the past month and the support that Jewish shills have given to those Israeli fuckers, from the US to the UK, I now finally see that the only chance Palestine ever had of being restored to its people is the destruction of the evil that is the Israeli state.
Nigh on 4000 children have been slaughtered, 10,000 men, women and children, from infant babies to young adolescents, the aged, the infirm, the vulnerable, their bodies lie rotting amid the ruins of their homes deliberately targeted by the bestial swine that are the IDF.
Fuck Israel, fuck Jews, fuck the US, fuck the UK, fuck the world.
The travesty that is the destruction of Palestine and the genocide of its people is the headstone for the death of decency and justice in the world, and the organisation that is the UN is in effect no more.
The sooner Iran gets the atomic bomb the better.
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Have you tried getting counselling?
That’s for pussies. There is no counselling for the truth, you either accept it or you’re a silly deluded cvunt.
Now, you can get counselling for that Prag.
It’s never too late to atone for your sins in Norn Iron.
Do you see the irony?
In my experience there are good and bad actors everywhere, a black and white view of the world doesn't promote peace , dialogue and compromise and ignores nuance and hope.
If you cannot see the wrongs and hurts on both sides just read any article and transpose word jew for arab or israeli for Palestinian. If you are not part of the solution you are part of the problem is a tired clche but apt here.
I condemn the violence on all sides
Russia went from being 2nd strongest army in the world to being the 2nd strongest in Ukraine
Your fucking psycho neurotic addiction to equivalence is the problem David. It’s moral cowardice. The Israelis are the niggers in the woodpile. They caused it, and the application of Occam’s razor is the solution.
Send the Jews in Israel back to Europe and Russia.
Before the Zionist migrations post WW1, Muslims, Jews and Christians lived in harmony in Palestine for centuries. The Zionists fucked it. In their hunger and greed for land that was not their’s to take they’ve created a fucking disaster.
They have to pay.
The Israel and it's vassal are threatening middle east countries.
Another has similar concerns:
NOVEMBER 6, 2023 BY M. K. BHADRAKUMAR
US, Israel to open second front in Lebanon.
"The announcement late Sunday night by the US Central Command [CENTCOM] headquartered in Doha about the arrival of a Ohio-class American nuclear submarine in its “area of responsibility” presages a significant escalation of the situation around the Palestine-Israel conflict.
It is very rare that the use of these submarines is publicised. The CENTCOM provided no additional details but it posted an image that apparently showed an Ohio-class submarine in Egypt’s Suez Canal Bridge. Interestingly, CENTCOM also separately shared an image of a nuclear-capable B-1 bomber operating in the Middle East.
Taken together, these US deployments, coming on top of the formidable presence of two aircraft carriers and warships hundreds of advanced jet fighters in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Red Sea respectively, are with an eye on “the other side of the equation,” as Secretary of State Antony Blinken quaintly described Hamas, Hezbullah, and Iran during his latest visit to Tel Aviv on Friday.
In a related development, perhaps, the CIA director, William Burns arrived in Israel on Sunday for urgent consultations. The New York Times reported that the US is “looking to expand its intelligence sharing with Israel.”
Arguably, the most charitable explanation for the deployment of a US nuclear submarine, which forms part of the Pentagon’s “nuclear triad” –Ohio-class boats are the largest submarines ever built for the US Navy — near the war zone is that the Biden Administration is preparing for an escalation of the war into Lebanon to draw out Hezbollah, which may in turn trigger an Iranian reaction.
In his speech on Friday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrullah seemed to anticipate precisely such a turn of events when he explicitly warned the US of consequences that couldn’t be any different from the catastrophic American involvement in Lebanon’s civil war in the early 1980s. Ironically, this is also the 40th anniversary year of the suicide bombing of the barracks housing US forces in Beirut International Airport in October 1983 in which 220 Marines, 18 sailors and three soldiers were killed forcing a US withdrawal from Lebanon. (See me blog Hezbollah takes to the high ground.)
Clearly, the locus of the US strategy in the present Middle situation may be shifting from diplomacy, which has anyway lost traction. Blinken’s desperate attempts to address the mounting international criticism of Israel’s horrific war crimes by diverting attention to a “humanitarian pause” in the fighting, et al, has been unceremoniously shot down by Netanyahu.
The point is, after pounding Gaza and its people with artillery and bombs, the Israeli army moved in on Friday. So far, it has reportedly advanced to the outskirts of Gaza City but not entered the Hamas stronghold. Fierce urban fighting is expected when it does.
Equally, the Biden administration’s hurried attempt to promote a vague outline for a post-war Gaza that might include a combination of a revitalised Palestinian Authority, a peacekeeping force, etc. has been met with a distinct lack of enthusiasm at Blinken’s meeting in the weekend in Amman with the Arab foreign ministers -– from Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates –- who instead demanded an immediate ceasefire, while Blinken said Washington wouldn’t push for one.
Blinken travelled to Ramallah from Amman where the head of the Palestine Authority Mahmoud Abbas also gave him short shrift saying that the PA would only be ready to shoulder full responsibility for the Gaza Strip in the framework of a “comprehensive political solution” that would include the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza — and, furthermore, that security and peace can only be achieved by ending the occupation of the territories of the “State of Palestine,” and by recognising East Jerusalem as its capital. The meeting lasted for less than an hour and ended without public statements.
Meanwhile, China and the UAE have since called for a closed-door meeting of the UN Security Council in another attempt to seek an immediate ceasefire, which the Biden Administration will certainly oppose. Suffice to say, the Biden Administration feels boxed in and the only way out is by something giving way through exercise of coercive means.
The US is watching with frustration as new regional equations are appearing among Muslim nations. The foreign ministers of Iran and Saudi Arabia held another phone conversation today. The OIC later announced that an extraordinary summit will be held in Riyadh on November 12 at the request of the current chairman, Saudi Arabia, to discuss Israel’s attacks on the Palestinian people.
Certainly, the Iran-Saudi rapprochement, mediated by Beijing, has profoundly transformed the regional security environment with regional states distinctly preferring to find solutions to their problems without outside interference, and the old schisms and xenophobia promoted by the US to perpetuate its dominance having no takers anymore.
As the death toll in Gaza crosses 10,000, feelings are indeed running high in the Muslim world. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said today that “all the evidence and indications show the direct involvement of the Americans in running the war” in Gaza. Khamenei added that as the war goes on, the reasons behind the US’s direct role would become more explicit.
The Fars News Agency, which is close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, also disclosed that Khamenei held a “recent meeting in Tehran” with the Head of Hamas political bureau, Ismail Haniyeh where he told the latter that Tehran’s support for the resistance groups is its “permanent policy.”
Evidently, Tehran no longer sees a problem in acknowledging its fraternal links with the resistance groups. This is a paradigm shift indicative of the shift in the power dynamic, which the US and Israel are compelled to counter through use of force, Washington’s diplomacy having failed to make headway to isolate Iran.
The Chief of the Israeli General Staff, Herzi Halevi, said on Sunday during a meeting in the Northern Command, “We are ready to strike in the north at any moment. We understand that it can happen… We have a clear goal of restoring a significantly better security situation at the borders, not only in the Gaza Strip.”
No power on earth can stop Israel on its tracks now. Its stability and defence is inextricably linked to this war, which will also ensure abiding US commitment to its security as a key template of American global strategies for the foreseeable future. Therefore, Israel’s best chance of survival lies in expanding the scope of the war in Gaza into Lebanon — and possibly even into Syria — shoulder to shoulder with the Americans.
There is no question that the location of the US nuclear submarine to the east of Suez is an attempt to intimidate Iran from intervening, while Israel, with US backing, proceeds to open a second front in Lebanon. The Israeli authorities have announced evacuation of people from settlements located in a zone up to five kms from the border with Lebanon.
A war of indeterminate timeline is set to begin in the Middle East. As the call of the jihad begins, inevitably, there is no knowing how the 80-year old American president will respond.
No, this won’t turn into a world war. It will be fought in the Middle East only, but its outcome will significantly impact the making of a new multipolar world order. The past one month has shown the precipitous decline of US influence and the highly volatile global environment since the war began in Ukraine in February last year."
US, Israel to open second front in Lebanon - Indian Punchline
A tray full of GOLD is not worth a moment in time.
My money is on Iseral.
Displacing Palestinians from West Bank is 'red line', declaration of war: Jordan FM
Expelling West Bank Palestinians an 'act of war': Jordan FM
Don't tell me they are growing a pair of balls in the M.E.![]()
s.a.
would that be the same UN that ...Yesterday the secretary general of the UN pronounced that Gaza had now become a graveyard for children
Member States Fail to Adopt Amendment Condemning 7 October Terrorist Attacks by Hamas in Israel.
General Assembly Adopts Resolution Calling for Immediate, Sustained Humanitarian Truce Leading to Cessation of Hostilities between Israel, Hamas | UN Press
Former Hamas chief ‘behind pro-Palestine Armistice Day protests’
Muhammad Kathem Sawalha is a founder of the Muslim Association of Britain, one of six groups organising the London march on Nov 11
By
Ewan Somerville
and
Daniel Martin,
DEPUTY POLITICAL EDITOR
6 November 2023 • 10:20pm
Mohammad Sawalha
Mohammad Sawalha, seen here in 2007, led the proscribed terrorist group in the West Bank in the late 1980s CREDIT: Richard Keith Wolff/Avalon/Getty Images
A former Hamas chief is behind one of the groups organising the pro-Palestine Armistice Day protests, The Telegraph can disclose.
Muhammad Kathem Sawalha led the proscribed terrorist group in the West Bank in the late 1980s and is alleged to have “masterminded” its military strategy with involvement as recently as 2019, before moving to Britain where he lives in a London council house.
He is a founder of the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), one of six groups behind the under-fire march in London on November 11, and Israeli authorities claim his son, Obada Sawalha, is now its vice-president.
The revelation comes as The Telegraph has discovered that half of the groups organising the march - who are still defying calls from the Metropolitan Police to call it off - have links to Hamas.
It has fuelled further pressure for it to be cancelled, with the chairman of the all-party parliamentary group (APPG) on anti-Semitism saying that it “proves that these marches are not about peace” and the Campaign Against Anti-Semitism describing this newspaper’s findings as “extremely serious”.
Sawalha, 62, worked as a director for MAB between 1999 and 2007 and helped found it, after being granted British citizenship in the early 2000s. BBC’s Panorama claimed in 2006 that he was “said to have masterminded much of Hamas’ political and military strategy”.
He now lives in a council house in Barnet, north London, but in 2004 he was named as a co-conspirator in a US indictment for having allegedly helped bankroll Hamas and he reportedly took part in an official Hamas delegation to Moscow in 2019 and served on the Hamas politburo between 2013 and 2017.
Another of the Muslim Association of Britain’s three directors, Dr Anas Altikriti, co-founded a group called the British Muslim Initiative with a senior commander in Hamas, Mohammed Sawalha, and Azzam Tamimi who has been described as a Hamas “special envoy” in Britain.
Dr Anas Altikriti
Dr Anas Altikriti, who co-founded a group called the British Muslim Initiative with a senior commander in Hamas, with Jeremy Corbyn in 2003 CREDIT: Sean Dempsey
Dr Altikriti, who has lectured at Leeds University, has written columns for The Guardian defending how “Hamas supports democracy” and insisting that “the Palestinian people have chosen” Hamas “to represent them”.
A British Government review in 2015 claimed that the MAB, founded in 1997, had been “dominated” by the Muslim Brotherhood, a controversial group that the report found had made “support for Hamas” an “important priority”. Hamas’ founding charter says that it is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood and the Government has said association with the group is a “possible indicator of extremism”.
Meanwhile, Zaher Birawi, a leader of the Palestinian Forum in Britain - another group organising the Armistice Day march - was described in Parliament in October by Labour MP Christian Wakeford as having been “designated by Israel in 2013 as a senior Hamas operative in Europe”, currently living in Barnet, north London, not far from Sawalhi, posing what the MP described as “a serious national security risk”.
He also allegedly met Hamas’ senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza in 2012 and was pictured with him.
A third group organising the protest, the Friends of al-Aqsa is founded and chaired by Leicester-based optician Ismael Patel who has also visited Haniyeh in Gaza and has joined the Gaza flotilla. According to the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the Friends of al-Aqsa is “harbouring an intense hatred for Israel, campaigning for its elimination, denying its Jewish character, and supporting Hamas”.
According to the Jewish Chronicle, he was filmed at a rally in 2009 saying: “Hamas is no terrorist organisation. The reason they hate Hamas is because they refuse to be subjugated, to be occupied by the Israeli state, and we salute Hamas for standing up to Israel.”
Responding to The Telegraph’s findings, Andrew Percy, APPG on anti-Semitism, said: “The involvement of these people proves that these marches are not about peace, they are about stirring up Jew-hate and a hatred of Western values.
“They are organised to celebrate the murder of innocent civilians in the most grotesque ways, including ripping out babies from pregnant mothers, cutting off limbs of children and worse still. These people have no interest in peace and it is time the UK stopped indulging their hateful ideology.”
Calling on the police to step in and ban the march, Mr Percy added: “The Met need to prove that they are here to defend the values of the majority in this country - not pander to a perverted ideology - by banning this hate march.”
The Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “These findings are extremely serious, and demand investigation by the authorities. Is it any wonder at the level of anti-Semitic hatred and calls for violence that we have seen at these marches if these are the organisers?
“These revelations are all the more reason for the Met Police to heed our call and ban this weekend’s march. London cannot become a no-go zone for British Jews, yet again, on Armistice Day. What a disgrace that would be to the heroes who fought for our freedom to leave without fear.”
The Community Security Trust told The Telegraph: “On October 7, Hamas finally achieved its long-stated intention to kill as many Jews as possible.
“This barbarism did not cause any change or hesitation in the actions of anti-Israel hate groups, which continue now, exactly as they always do: with calls that most Jews regard as demands for the destruction of Israel, even if they are couched in ways that just about remain within the law.”
and yes, its the telegraph again!
SO WE HAVE VIOLENT ISLAMISTS AND VIOLENT ZIONISTS
On the plus most ordinary peacefUl tolerant folk who respect peaceful co existence , live and let live
Just a moment...
Pretty much a long winded version of Obama saying “nobody’s hands are clean”.
This thread has been dominated pretty much by SA and Tax with clearly different opinions.
If I had to take sides between SA, Tax and the guy in the link … I’m going with the septic lawyer from Georgia.
As one of his commenters said, “So painful to read. So rightly aimed”.
Cheers …![]()
The Left can no longer hide the barbarism of its anti-Semitic worldview
ERIELLE DAVIDSON
7 November 2023 • 3:19pm
Erielle Davidson
On October 7th, 1,400 Israelis were murdered by throngs of Hamas terrorists who swarmed Israel’s southern border, going from house to house searching for civilians to slaughter and broadcasting their savagery for those who were unable to join in the brutality.
The reaction in parts of the Middle East was unsurprising – a mixture of raucous cheers from civilians and endorsements or muted responses from Arab governments.
Amongst America’s progressive Left, the response wasn’t much different. Outside the established wing of the Democratic Party, the modus operandi has been to excuse, celebrate, and whitewash the crimes of Hamas. College campuses across the country have erupted in pro-Palestine protests, framing the violence as “liberation from oppression.” Meanwhile, numerous videos have emerged of individuals tearing down the posters of kidnapped Israelis, claiming the victims to be “occupiers” and “colonisers.”
Prominent progressive intellectuals, such as Judith Butler, have called for an end to Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza and warned that the “structural violence” will only continue to produce “resistance”. Similarly condemnatory comments from members of Congress’ progressive “squad” have been generated with predictable regularity.
For years, the American Left has positioned itself as giving a voice to the oppressed and offering refuge to those suffering; its response in the wake of October 7th has destroyed any uncertainty about its true moral compass. Equivocate or even excusing indiscriminate murder surrenders any vestige of moral high ground the movement once held. All that is left is the remains of Left-wing liberalism and a shell of empty syllogisms.
October 7th has shone a spotlight on a grotesque intersection of the academic Left and visceral anti-Semitism among some groups. The relationship between the two movements is symbiotic and converges on a similar hatred for Jews. The progressive paradigm of the “oppressor and oppressed” has found footing in delusional histories of the origins of the state of Israel.
It doesn’t matter that gay men and women are murdered in Gaza and the West Bank, or that women continue to face oppression and abuse. The progressive Left has decided that effectively embracing anti-Semitism is worth it if it means maintaining fealty to the oppression industrial complex.
Liberalism was once a combination of two principles: procedural liberalism (equal rights for all before the law) coupled with a particular sensitivity towards remedying social and economic inequalities. The “new Left” that has engulfed academia, HR departments and the United Nations cast aside the first principle in a mad quest to deliver social justice to the supposed oppressed. Now every inequality is viewed as the result of actions, real or imaginary, by the assigned “oppressor”, and never as the product of internal dysfunction within a particular society.
Once the “oppressor” and “oppressed” have been assigned roles, the cast is fixed and immutable, remaining unresponsive to changing political, economic, and social circumstances. And because of the racial framing of most politics in America, the initial casting of roles almost always follows perceived racial dynamics rather than of actual interactions between the parties.
As a result, the paradigm is generally divorced from reality. Indeed, for many on the progressive Left, Israel is a “white supremacist” nation oppressing “people of colour,” despite the fact that many of Israel’s Jews are of Middle Eastern or North African descent themselves. Thus, it is no coincidence that Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar once compared the Palestinian plight to the “racist killing” of George Floyd. Even the West’s enemies have picked up on how this works.
While many have expressed shock at the anti-Semitism now on display on the Left, for years now, the dominant voices in this movement have been illiberal ones. What has replaced reverence for Western liberalism is a celebration of brutal savagery, destruction, and death directed towards anyone deemed to be a member of a fixed oppressor group.
Now, it is up to the Right to assume control of the moral high ground: to position itself as pro-civilization and anti-barbarism – and to be unafraid to use such language. We must denounce the atrocities unequivocally and unabashedly.
The alternative consists of watching one side of the political spectrum devolve into barbarism dressed up in academic language. For the sake of civilisation, that cannot be allowed.
and yes, it's the Telegraph!
How many far left wingers will be marching alongside the "free Palestine brigade" on remembrance day?
They really are a bizarre confused rag tag group of radicalised fruit Loops.
What better day is there to March for armistice than Armistice Day ?
it’s a no brainier
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