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Last week I was sent an image of a pro-Palestine stall at Cambridge Market Square.

Not angry students. Not masked radicals. Rather elderly white women encouraging strangers to boycott Israel.

So yesterday I went to Cambridge to hear what they were selling.

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The stall was bigger yesterday - but the same women were also there. I looked over the material and listened for a while - as one activist tried to explain to people how the Arabs had always considered themselves Palestinians -

Newsflash - this was a big fat lie.

Eventually the same woman came over to me. I did not want to confront her - I did not seek an argument.

I just wanted to understand what it was she was selling - so I played as someone there to be educated.

We spoke for about twenty minutes. Everything I was told was false.

I was told the Arab armies in 1948 only entered the areas allocated to the proposed Arab state.
This is false.

I was told the Palestinian Arabs in 1948 were “completely disarmed” passive victims.
This is false.

She called Israel an Apartheid state because of "65 discriminatory laws". I asked for an example. She stuttered and could not give me a single one.

They do not exist, of course. It is empty propaganda where Jewish holidays and state emblems are seen as signs of Apartheid.

By the same token - the UK would be apartheid because of Christmas day and the crosses in the flag and emblems.

But that is really not the point. This is the activists' reason for boycott. The point of her activism - and she did not have a single concrete example.

Their literature was no better.

A newspaper on the stall was still promoting the false claim that Israel bombed the Al-Ahli hospital in Gaza - despite it becoming clear years ago that the explosion was caused by a failed Islamic Jihad rocket.

I was told Hamas was “created by Israel.”
More lies. This is how propaganda works.

Israel maintained ties with Islamic organisations in Gaza after 1967. Hamas did not exist.

That understandable reality later became twisted into conspiracy mythology to smear Israel.

The conversation became darker:

I heard Holocaust revisionism, conspiracies about Iraqi and Yemenite Jews, claims that “Zionists” hated weak and brown-skinned Jews, and repeated attempts to portray Israelis as alien European colonists with no authentic connection to the region.

Eventually the mask slipped completely.

She compared Israeli Jews to white Europeans in Africa - told me they were foreign colonists - and implied they deserved whatever comes to them when forced to take down their walls.

The reality behind all their slogans.

This is what Palestinianism is:
History must be distorted.
Violence erased.
Jihadism excused.
Conspiracies created.
Jews transformed into demonic outsiders.

This is what was on sale at Market Square in Cambridge.

Elderly grandmothers spreading lies about the Jewish state, demanding its boycott, and pressuring it to surrender to people who openly call for its destruction.

Rarely has antisemitism dressed so sweetly.
Rarely has it been so dangerous.

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