Letter from anti-racist Jews denounces Establishment’s treatment of anti-genocide marches as antisemitic
One hundred and fifty British Jews have written to Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley denouncing the police (and government) treatment of marches against Israel’s genocide in Gaza as if they are antisemitic. The letter reads:
We Reject Your Insinuation That The Marches Against Genocide in Gaza Represent a Threat to Jews or the Jewish Community and Suggest that It Is Not the Business of the Police to Intervene in Ongoing Political Debates
We the undersigned, being Jewish, wish to support and join a complaint against the Metropolitan Police, for their racist and anti-Semitic assumption that all Britain’s Jews support Israel’s genocidal attacks on Gaza.
We further believe that the decision of the Metropolitan, Police to delay the starting time of the March Against Genocide in Gaza on 17 Feb. 24 from 12.00 to 1.30 pm ‘to accommodate an event at a synagogue along the route’ is lslamophobic, based as it is on the assumption that the large numbers of Muslims taking part pose a threat to Jews worshipping in congregations nearby.
Your decision to delay the start of the march rested u~on the assumption that there is something inherently anti-Semitic about supporting the Palestinians and that anti-Zionism equals anti-Semitism.
The Met’s decision ignores the fact that many thousands of British Jews have already taken part in such marches without feeling threatened in any way. Indeed the march has started from Marble Arch on at least two previous occasions recently without any anti-Semitic incidents.
We are tired of the Police’s racist and anti-Semitic assumption that to be Jewish is to support Zionism and Israel’s racist and genocidal treatment of the Palestinians. There are many thousands of Jews who are active in the Palestine solidarity movement and we resent your assumptions to the contrary.
The letter is signed by:
The letter’s publication comes amid a flurry of racist and Islamophobic comments by government and opposition politicians, with the help of their media allies, aimed at smearing those who object to mass murder as racist – and the arrest of three left-wing protesters in Newham on the nonsensical basis that booing and hissing a supporter of Israel is antisemitic.
The Establishment is determined to suppress free speech against Israel and its war crimes, and to ignore the blatant racism involved in the assumptions it uses to try to justify those attacks. Anti-racist Jews in the UK and the US know better.
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More smoke and mirrors nonsense but the volume of the anti-muslim drum beat has increased. Last November the very same Mark Rowley ignored calls for the National March for Palestinian (labelled by Cruella Braverman in true dog whistle fashion a “hate” march) to be banned, because it fell on the same day as the annual armistice remembrance event, with the right wing lunatics fringe calling for the need to “protect” the Cenotaph and Sunak saying it was “disrespectful” to have the march on the same day, never mind that it happened nowhere near the cenotaph. In the event it was the right wing thugs who disturbed the Cenotaph event not those on the march who were miles away at the time. Here we are five months later with Rowley bending no doubt to intense political pressure, and changing the timing of an anti genocide march, because, (we are invited to believe), Jews in synagogues along the route will find putative muslims participating a threat. It echoes Hoyle’s justification for the departure from parliamentary procedure that sabotaged the SNP ceasefire motion namely that MPs voting against would be at risk – the implication being from Islamic extremists. And then there is Sunak’s histrionic performance after Galloway’s crushing win in Rochdale. It’s all transparently clear and needs robustly challenging. Andrew Feinstein has called for a collective opposition to it all and the next general election is shaping up to be one that determines whether or not the lying sociopaths in charge succeed in their endeavour to drag us all down the road to a police state. We need anti-genocide candidates standing in as many constituencies as possible.
Also known in some circles as Chief cons. Rachel Rowley.
And Met police chief Mark Riley.
Arrest little Rishi Sunak for complicity in the Genocide
Arrest anyone who supports the Genocide
Close down MSM and toilet papers who promote the Genocide
Round up those who finance and arm the Genocide
Establish a Nuremberg II trial in the Hague
For the Prime Minister to denounce the victor in a parliamentary by-election is quite a revelation about how far the anti-democratic forces of the state will go:
– To lie
– To defame
– To undermine democracy
– To insult the Muslim people who vote for peace
– To insult the electorate because they voted “the wrong way”
– To support the terrorist State of Israel in it murderous program of genocide of the Palestinians
We need a lot more campaigners with the courage and the clear-sight of George Galloway.
Anyways, I’m rather looking forward to hear what Galloway has to say in the commons tomorrow.
I doubt he’ll be given right of reply to some of the home truths he produces in it.
But the fume created ought to be worth a watch on the parliament channel.
Not for me to tell Galway how to go about it, but he’d do well to give domestic issues prominence, like he ought to have done in his victory speech.
He did mention improving conditions for mums to be allowing children to be born in Rochdale hospitals. Or was that in a later speech?
Plenty of other offences that little Richard ought to be nicked (and jailed, plus asset-stripped as proceeds of crime) for.
And plenty more of them freeloading parasites in the commons should suffer the same fate.
Well over 100k dead here in the UK (and sadly, more to come) as a result of their continued austerity edict.
GG needs to destroy the establishment by pointing out the illegality of supporting the Genocide, ask for the Legal advice on selling arms to Israel
Little wet farm Rishii has established intent with his speech on Friday, by attacking those calling for a Ceasefire
It’s a start to getting certain individuals lifted by plod or at the very least putting them on notice
Frightening future ahead for anyone who cares about those worse off and left behind. Well they have warned us so we can’t complain that when the SHTF it’s a surprise.
Changes in the law.
In light of the recent revelations about The Met how can less accountability be justified?
What are they preparing to hide?
Follow the link below for further details.
UK: Law changes will make it harder to hold police to account for illegal data access
……………. changes to UK data protection law currently approaching their final stages in the House of Lords would eliminate the need for police forces to record the reason an officer has accessed a particular database.
The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill amends the 2018 Data Protection Act so that logs on consultation and disclosure of information held in law enforcement databases would no longer have to record the justification for consultation or disclosure.
The amendments would STRIKE OUT the following text from the law:
(1) A controller (or, where personal data is processed on behalf of the controller by a processor, the processor) must keep logs for at least the following processing operations in automated processing systems—
(a) collection;
(b) alteration;
(c) consultation;
(d) disclosure (including transfers);
(e) combination;
(f) erasure.
(2) The logs of consultation must make it possible to establish—
(a) the justification for, and date and time of, the consultation, and
(b) so far as possible, the identity of the person who consulted the data.
(3) The logs of disclosure must make it possible to establish—
(a) the justification for, and date and time of, the disclosure, and
(b) so far as possible—
(i) the identity of the person who disclosed the data, and
(ii) the identity of the recipients of the data.
https://www.statewatch.org/news/2024/february/uk-law-changes-will-make-it-harder-to-hold-police-to-account-for-illegal-data-access/
And the memo from keef about this, is?
Toffee – Like you I’ve no idea, but I’ll let you know if I find out.
Toffee – Here’s the latest on this.
The Guardian has gone to a great deal of effort to give the false impression that the decision to change the lyrics was Israel’s choice.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/03/israel-asks-eurovision-candidate-to-change-lyrics
Toffee – See above
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/03/02/150-british-jews-tell-met-top-cop-youre-racist-assuming-we-all-support-israel/#comment-253131
SteveH03/03/2024 AT 9:27 PM
Toffee – Like you I’ve no idea, but I’ll let you know if I find out.
Speak for yourself in having no idea
I can tell you right now. Keef’s memo doesn’t exist, nor will it ever.
And this time he won’t be bragging to the commons about the thank you letter (complete with “but whirrer (sic) the ID cards?”) he’s no doubt written to Richy soonak for saving keef the trouble.
Toffee – What on earth are you prattling on about? 😕
As if you don’t know.
And you have the temerity to ask; “In light of the recent revelations about The Met how can less accountability be justified?”
What are they preparing to hide?
Once again, richy’s saved keef the job.
Toffee – “As if you don’t know.”
Well given that you obviously haven’t a clue what you are blathering on about why would you expect me or anyone else to know.
Even when it’s spelled out for you you pretend you have no idea what I’m on about and then try to make out I have no idea.
What a fucking imbecile. Fuck off, sexually molest your goats, catch some sort of incurable STD from them.
…And then die.
Toffee – I suggest that you try having a chat with your GP, (s)he may be able to offer you some help with your ‘issues’. 😔
BDS
Pressure will build up to start banning Israel from International events like Eurovision and the Euro’s, if they qualify
How about they are allowed to participate and let the crowds make it clear what they think about ‘Jews committing Genocide ‘
The knock on effect will be devastating for Israeli’s back home and Zionists around the world, Pariahs everywhere they go
This is a necessary step to teach the fuckers how to live peacefully in a two state solution
Doug – I don’t often find myself agreeing with you.
I’ll get my coat
Seem summit earlier on abar the Israeli entry for Eurovision….weren’t taking much notice bit i think it was to do with the lyrics being political
Not that I’m arsed, I hate the bleedin’ thing anyway.
But if, IF the lbgt decide to kick up a stink about Israeli involvement in the eurovisions, then you watch how many MPs will get just that little bit braver.
Toffee – Sorry, WordPress sometimes has a mind of its own
See above
https://skwawkbox.org/2024/03/02/150-british-jews-tell-met-top-cop-youre-racist-assuming-we-all-support-israel/#comment-253131
I have been led to believe that a lot of the farming settlers are unsettling and its starting to be effective.
BREAKING NEWS
Jeremy Corbyn to take legal action against Nigel Farage over ‘defamatory’ statement on GB News
Jeremy Corbyn has instructed lawyers to take legal action against Nigel Farage after claiming that the GB News presenter made a “highly defamatory” statement on his show last week.
Posting on X, the former Labour leader accused Mr Farage of spreading “disgusting and malicious lies” about him and said he would not let them go “unchallenged”.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/jeremy-corbyn-legal-action-nigel-farage-defamatory-gb-news-b1143071.html
Geordie Galloway invites JC to get involved in the fight to deprive the Fuhrer of a majority on the ‘Not the Andrew Marr’ show
It should be like shooting fish in a barrel, the electorate are in a worse position than 2015
There needs to be a Rainbow coalition with every interested party who wants to destroy the Red and Blue Tories
The giant carrot is PR, in return for standing down, so there will be concrete change as well as a principled response to the Genocide in Palestine
The guys from the Greyzone have just described it as ”Guy Fawkes time’