Anti-racist marchers and anti-genocide Big Ride for Palestine intersect at Houses of Parliament
Anti-fascist demonstrators marched peacefully through London yesterday against the racism of the far-right and the dogwhistles of politicians and media. Skwawkbox was there to capture the scenes as the marchers arrived at Parliament:
The march intersected with the London leg of the Big Ride for Palestine – and the two groups, who of course overlap to a large degree, applauded each other as the ride paused to watch the march go by:
The event came as Israel bombed more schools in Gaza and slaughtered more Palestinian refugees, mostly women and children – while Keir Starmer exploits the far-right hate he helped inflame to attack our rights to peaceful protest and to organise.
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Has the world gone mad allowing this to happen akowçç
This is rather interesting:
https://labourlist.org/2024/08/labour-mp-rochester-strood-tweets-apology-lauren-edwards/
Wikipedia says:
“Edwards worked as a parliamentary researcher for a number of Labour MPs including Barbara Keeley, Teresa Pearce and Lisa Nandy from 2008 to 2013.”
In a previous thread on here (and on Craig Murray’s website) I posted the following clip from the JVL introduction to an article they reposted:
The MP for Finchley – Sarah Sackman, even claimed that the antiracist rally in Finchley on August 7th would be antisemitic.
Anyway, earlier today it occurred to me to do a search to see if I could ascertain why she said what she said, and one of the results that came up was a Telegraph article in which it said the following:
A Labour MP has reported an anti-fascist group in north London to the police after a poster from a protest equated “Zionists” with the far-Right.
Sarah Sackman, the new MP for Finchley and Golders Green, said material shared by groups ahead of a demonstration in North Finchley on Wednesday evening was “clearly anti-Semitic”….
A poster from the group Finchley Against Fascism, advertising the event, read: “Get Fascists, Racists, Nazis, Zionists and Islamophobes out of Finchley.”
Ms Sackman said she had reported the posts to the Metropolitan Police and the Community Security Trust, a charity that seeks to protect British Jews from harassment and violence.
Sunder Katwala, the director of British Future, a think tank, said the protesters had “marred their defence” of the immigration office by using the “anti-Semitic” slogan “Zionists out of Finchley”.
Stand Up to Racism, the main organiser of the counter-demonstration in North Finchley, said Finchley Against Fascism was not connected to it and denounced the content of the leaflet.
Anyway, I thought I’d just point out the reason and the context for why Sackman said what she said (having now learnt why she did), and whatever one thinks and feels about Zionism and Zionists regards the genocide etc in Gaza, it probably wasn’t a good idea to include Zionists in a leaflet/poster about an anti-racist counter protest, and was bound to be denounced as antisemetic. Then again…..
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/08/mp-complains-anti-fascists-zionists-far-right/
PS I assumed, wrongly as it turned out, that Sackman was saying it merely because she knew there would be many left-wingers on the counter protest.
Ohhh… I thought I’d come across the name somewhere before! The following passage is from a New Statesman article:
She [Sarah Sackman] did not stand as a Labour candidate during the Corbyn era: “I didn’t feel that I could ask my neighbours and friends to vote for me – to vote for Labour – in this place at that time.” Instead, she shifted her energies to the Jewish Labour Movement. She was vice-chair of the organisation when it brought its complaint against the Labour Party and its leadership via the Equality and Human Rights Commission.
https://www.newstatesman.com/encounter/2024/06/sarah-sackman-my-labour-values-my-jewish-identity-tension
So Sackman was involved in what was probably the biggest stitch-up in British political history, which consisted of indirectly causing concern and consternation and worry and anxiety in many in the Jewish population. And she was justly rewarded for services rendered it would appear – ie for subverting democracy, along with her playmates in the JLM and CAA and LAAS and the BoD etc, etc, etc.
Hopefully, one day in the not too distant future, every single one of the people involved in the A/S black op smear campaign against Jeremy and the left will be exposed to the millions they duped and deceived and cheated for what they did. And what they ARE, as such.
Afterthought: As I’ve said on more than a few occasions before, isn’t it odd that none of the groups and organisations and individuals that accused Jeremy of being antisemitic – and in some cases called him an antisemite (as the CAA still does on a regular basis) – ever reported him to the police. Not a single one of them.
Hmm, I wonder why not??!
PS If the EHRC was legit, then they would of course have cancelled the CAAs charity status long ago for being the blatantly obvious Zionist propaganda outfit it is. Or are we supposed to believe that it didn’t seem rather odd to them that the CAA had never on any occasion reported Jeremy (or Ken or Jackie or Chris et al) to the police for antisemitism, despite loudly accusing them of such repeatedly.
Yep, the EHRC played ITS part in the A/S black op against Jeremy and the left as well, and a very BIG part at that.
Jews don’t commit Genocide
Therefore
What do you do with those who support the Holocaust in Gaza unequivocally
It is a rarity on a par with finding rocking horse droppings to see something in the Guardian which actually does what it says on the tin and which is worth recommending:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/10/there-can-be-no-excuses-the-uk-riots-were-violent-racism-fomented-by-populism
Bravo and kudos to David Olusoga
“Riots are not protests and there is a difference between motivations and excuses. Despite much that has been said, the riots of 2024 were not born of “legitimate grievances” about poverty, underinvestment and the breakdown of basic services, all supposedly deepened by mass immigration. The people attacked on the streets, those who had to defend their places of worship or their homes, are the neighbours of the rioters. They live in the same towns and suffer the consequences of the exact same poverty and underinvestment…..
…..The profound injustices and stark regional disparities that have been wrongly ascribed as the motivations of the rioters urgently and obviously need to be addressed. But that reality has nothing directly to do with the actions of people who burned down a library and an advice centre, looted booze from a smashed-up Sainsbury’s and hurled rocks at Filipino nurses on their way to their shifts in NHS hospitals.
Far-right groups, organising online, increasingly inspired by and connected to similar groups in the US and Europe, are not motivated by such concerns. They are, however, always eager to exploit them. The far-right already have an agenda; they always have. Disconnected from reason, it changes little over time. Behind the curtain of the dark web, in their grim chatrooms and Telegram forums, their true motivations are on display. They are not looking to address inequalities but to target those whom they will never accept as fellow Britons.
In doing so, they, and those swept up in the chaos they foment, are willing to tear apart the nation to which they preposterously claim to be patriots.”