cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21087304
By MEE staff Published date: 5 October 2024 19:45 BST
[We need a lot more of these]
I find these protests distasteful (to say the least) at the best of times, but particularly sour this weekend.
The anti-zionism MEE proudly chose to comment on aside, reporting elsewhere on the tens of thousands who chose to march included this lovely chant supporting the Houthis:
They then gathered outside the British Library, chanting: “Yemen, Yemen make us proud. Turn another ship around,”
The arrests sound delightful too:
Two people were arrested on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation, one of which included a protester wearing what appeared to be a parachute, and there were eight arrests on suspicion of public order offences, four of which were allegedly racially aggravated. Parachutes and paragliders were used by militants from Hamas to launch their aerial assault to enter Israel from Gaza last October.
Three people were arrested on suspicion of assaulting an emergency worker, three were arrested on suspicion of assault and one person was arrested on suspicion of breaching a Public Order Act condition.
Marking the one-year anniversary of an horrendous massacre by paying homage to the terrorists that committed it and assaulting emergency workers. Wonderful stuff.
One hopes the memorial event in Hyde Park later might be somewhat more graceful.
Wake up to the reality, modern Zionism is terrorism.
The IDF is the most brutal terror organization in the world.
Israel is the only country in the world that isn’t allowed to bomb its enemies.
If any other country does it, it’s to protect themselves. When Israel does it, it’s “genocide”.
Summing up the situation as “bombing their enemies” only shows your ignorance or bias.
They are running a starvation campaign. They created a million refugees, then they carpet bomb the refugee camps. They destroyed almost all of the hospitals, schools, and places of worship in Gaza. They rape Palestinian prisoners, and when the rapist was going to be prosecuted, the populace protested and made him a social media star. The civilian leadership has called for the starvation and extermination of the entire population on hundreds of occasions. I could go on and on, the list of Israeli war crimes in the past year is horrendously long.
And now they aren’t just attacking Gaza, they are invading Lebanon as well, doing the same war crimes.
There were people wearing clothes declaring support of Hezbollah, which at worst is literal support of terrorists and at best, dimwitted.
It’s okay though, you can be as racist as you like towards Jews and it doesn’t matter. It’s the only form of racism that’s acceptable.
I’d hope those are the ones who got arrested for supporting a proscribed group. Iirc folks wearing the Hamas logo and dressing up as terrorists at previous protests were arrested for that.
It’s okay though, you can be as racist as you like towards Jews and it doesn’t matter. It’s the only form of racism that’s acceptable.
I think we see enough racism toward other groups to accept that that second sentence isn’t true, but I agree with the first one. Tons of folks have at least a blind spot toward antisemitism and sometimes an active acceptance of it in a way that seems unique.
I enjoyed Howard Jacobson’s piece in today’s Observer on one specific form of it that’s found a new prevalence. It’s difficult to find even limited acknowledgement of it in our discourse at the moment so I’m grateful to those like him daring to write about it.
