As a huge wave of the darkest antisemitic hatred crashes across the land, including calls for the mass murder of Jews, what is the "anti-racist" group "Hope not Hate" really worked up about?
Matthew Parris. 1/6
"Friends of Al Aqsa" is at the heart of the ugly agitation we are seeing, just as it has long been.
It is dedicated to fanatical hatred of Israel and promoting antisemites. Its founder and leader, Ismail Patel, is a fan of Hamas. Up the "anti-racist" street, right?
Oh. 2/6
Indeed, Hamas has built up an extensive UK support network since the 1990s. Journalists have covered it and counter-extremism activists have challenged it for years. It is one of the roots of Labour's ruin.
Going by their website, "Hope not Hate" hasn't even mentioned it. 3/6
The "Palestinian Forum in Britain" is another player behind today's ugly scenes. Israel=Nazis.
It used to bring some of the Middle East's very worst hate preachers to Britain before the Government banned them, with encouragement from activists, including Muslims.
Ah, I see. 4/6
Well, this is an outfit that was "delighted" to appoint Kevin Courtney of the NEU as a patron to its "HOPE Education Fund". One couldn't ask for a better friend for Islamists. He's with them all the way, even in defiance of Birmingham's Labour council. 5/6
To add to the picture, further footage of this incident in Leeds today, filmed by local YouTuber @mondymedia.
For context, among so many other issues, West Yorkshire Police think hatred rally speeches hailing the Hamas atrocities of 7 October 2023 are just fine.
If you want to understand antisemitism in today’s Britain, turn to Lubna Speitan of the Green Party and her circles. Yesterday, she and Shola Mas-Shogbamimu delivered a masterclass.
“Nothing is more antisemitic than Zionism!”
Yes, being deranged is central to the creed. 1/4
Impressively, in just a few more seconds in the clip above, Speitan managed to add the “good Jew” of dark yore and a foul Holocaust slur too. See? It's simple. Antisemitism? Blame Jews!
Nazi slurs are crucial in this camp. You must hurl them frequently. Here is another one. 2/4
Excited, Shola responds with "who gives a rat's a**e how the Jews feel!". In the context of the 7 October Hamas atrocities. Shola loves this line. Well, it is important. Only hate, comrades, only hate.
Anyway, we all know who was responsible for the killing on 7 October. 3/4
No low is too low for the "Palestine Solidarity Campaign". Tadhg Hickey is an off the charts extremist hater who backs terrorists.
Neturei Karta is a tiny, nasty, and reviled sect aligned with the Iranian regime. A stain, not a fig leaf.
Louise Regan is Chair of the PSC. 1/8
"Of course black people face racism! What do they expect when black men commit so many crimes? Come on!"
That's what this is, but addressed to Jews, in the context of terrorist attacks against them. By the way, all Israelis are"genocidal", you know. 2/8
Hickey claims there that he doesn't support attacks on innocents. Yeah, right. See him at a Hamas UK meeting. Do not be "squeamish" about "the resistance". Do not "dehumanise" them by calling them terrorists. That would be so "Western".
The Agenda is littered by "waah we can't be hateful" motions. Here's just one of them. It is disgusting and pathetic. No, antisemites are not in trouble in the NHS. They thrive there.
Ordinary people don't want *any* politics in the NHS, whatever their own views may be. That the BMA is just another trade union with a shameful obsession is plain wrong. And disturbing.
So, who was up for abusing Jews in Edgware last Sunday? It's no surprise to find the vandal Layla Mohamed in their number.
She was not the only one. Here's Heba Muraisi at the Edgware hatred rally, sporting a red triangle, which means "I back Hamas". She faces charges for... 1/9
...the "Filton 25" attack on a defence plant in Bristol, where another raider attacked a police officer with a sledgehammer. At his sentencing at Woolwich, she joined "death!" chants with Qesser Zuhrah, another alleged vandal.
Catch Heba at Marxism 2026. Yay, violence! 2/9
Abdalla Alanzi also joined the Edgware rabble. The disgusting oaf is a hate march regular. Here he is at another protest in London, with the megaphone. "Death!" He currently faces charges for stirring up racial hatred with "intifada" chants outside the Ministry of Justice last December. 3/9
Yesterday's march on a synagogue in Edgware was an utterly disgusting spectacle. This short clip alone says so much. The triangle gesture, made here against Jews, in front of the police, means "I back Hamas". A sort of 21st Century Nazi salute.
And the man in the white top? 1/9
Abdallah Alanzi, charged in January with stirring up racial hatred with intifada chants at another protest. You'll find him at the ugliest rallies. Evidently, a brush with the law does not dissuade him.
More triangle goons at Edgware. A proper Hamas hatred crew. 2/9
The protest targeted an Israeli property event, ostensibly because land in the West Bank was offered. The organisers deny this. But it doesn't matter. These people want Israel itself to be destroyed. They made this clear over and over again. "Zionists out!"