MELANIE PHILLIPS (MelaniePhillips.substack.com 12-9-24)
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign has rescheduled a Gaza march which was to take place in central London on Yom Kippur — the Day of Atonement and the holiest day of the year for Jews.
Dave Rich, Director of Policy at the Community Security Trust, had called on the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police to postpone the march which was “likely to intimidate Jewish worshippers” at nearby synagogues.
The Jewish Chronicle reports:
“Every time there is a large anti-Israel march, it includes people carrying antisemitic placards, chanting for Israel to be eliminated and supporting Hamas,” said Rich. “It would be completely wrong and grossly insensitive for another such march to go anywhere near a synagogue on Yom Kippur, or to disturb Jewish people on their way to and from synagogue on such a solemn day.”
Quite so. The PSC, of course, didn’t reschedule this march because of a sudden urge to do the decent thing. It was apparently told by its Jewish supporters that they would be absent on Yom Kippur (even hard-left Jews devoted to the cause of destroying Israel and ethnically cleansing their fellow-Jews from their ancient homeland apparently want to atone for their sins) and the PSC was worried that the marchers would therefore be deprived of their reputational human shields whom they wield to rebut accusations of Jew-hatred.
It therefore brought its Yom Kippur march forward to October 5. So that’s the new Intimidate the Jews Day. This one will be two days before October 7, the first anniversary of the Hamas-led pogrom in Israel. Nice. And indeed, on its website the PSC actually declares:
In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. We need the largest possible mobilisation to demonstrate our solidarity, demand an end to the genocide, and to call on the British government to stop arming Israel.
How disgusting is this. October is the month when decent people will mark the start of the Hamas-led genocidal assault on southern Israel, when thousands of Arabs from Gaza stormed across the border fence and butchered, raped, beheaded or burnt alive 1200 Israeli women children and men and dragged 250 others into the hellholes of Gaza where a maximum of 100 are thought to remain alive in horrific conditions.
