The organisers of today’s huge London march for Gaza today are defying an attempt by Metropolitan Police to force the march to take an alternative route in response to pressure from pro-Israel groups and are insisting they will stick to the ‘banned’ original route from Whitehall to the BBC’s HQ against the BBC’s evident “pro-Israel bias”. Prominent UK Jews have also opposed the attempt to force the route change.
The Met had previously approved the original route caved in to pressure from Zionist groups, MPs and right-wing Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis, claiming that the route now passed too close to two synagogues – there are no synagogues on the planned route. The pro-Israel ‘Board of Deputies’ confirmed the pressure when it lauded the Met for “listening to both national and local Jewish representatives”.
But the march organisers responded defiantly, saying:
We decide where we protest, not pro-Israel organisations.
The group said yesterday that the Met had accepted they could not force the march to re-route. Marchers will assemble at Whitehall at noon, but the force has apparently denied this, saying the ban is still in place.
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It always gets me when fanatical supporters of Israel say about anti-Zionists:
“Those people are obsessed with Israel.”