Some protesters abused by apartheid-supporting suits
A large gathering of supporters of Palestinian rights and freedom demonstrated outside Labour’s conference in Liverpool yesterday – with some angry suits stopping to abuse protesters and others sneering at the ‘timing’ of the demo.
A considerable number of the protesters were Jewish left-wingers whose opposition to apartheid has seen them targeted and expelled by the Starmer regime. At least one was atrociously verbally abused by a suited conference-goer who called him ‘scum’ and ‘a toad who crawled out from under a rock’. Others, also in suits – who predominate at Starmer’s business-friendly conference that has been sponsored by a number of odious firms – could be heard chuntering about the ‘atrocious timing’ of the demonstration – presumably a reference to the large Palestinian resistance moves at the weekend, as if the protesters chose when Labour’s conference would be held.
Skwawkbox spoke to Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi of Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) and to Helen Marks, the Jewish member of the party who was infamously smeared as demanding to know whether a party investigator came from Israel, only for her recording of the conversation to prove emphatically that she had said no such thing. They told Skwawkbox why they were there:
Hypocritically, the Labour regime fully supports the right of white Ukrainians to use force to resist Russian occupation, but denounces resistance by Palestinians. As one of the protesters’ banners pointed out, this is the ‘elephant in the room’ and the silence and double standards must end.
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