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
All those solemn and stern pledges and warnings about hatred chants, even from the Prime Minister and top police officers? Forget them. Discard them.
Here's the reality. Creeps out to disrupt operations at a defence plant in Kent yesterday screeching for "intifada". 1/4
Know where we are. These days, protests are conducted by a toxic hard core. The dregs of the hatred movement that has abused the UK for years now. The creeps are well-known. As in, known through physical scuffles. Here's the same lot at the same site earlier this year. 2/4
Yes, it's another "death to the IDF!" crowd.
These people really are out to wreck defence industry operations. It is not "just protest". Forget granny knitting at Greenham Common. Those days are long, long gone.
Today's London hate march is off to a great start. "ZOG" means "Zionist occupied government". It is a term coined by the American racist far right.
This is the "forming up" point, where violent racist messages are obviously welcome.
h/t @uprising_1
@uprising_1 "Gaza broke the prison door!" - a salute to the Hamas atrocities of 7 October 2023. "Smash the Zionist settler state!" - the customary poisonous hatred.
Remember, these scenes are backed by the Labour left, the Greens, and trade unions.
@uprising_1 More of the 21st Century Nazi favourites. "Death to the IDF!" "Zionism no more!"
Should you seek to justify terrorist attacks on synagogues? Oh yes. That's the view of Sabine Mairey, a Green Party candidate in Lambeth. Israel behaving badly? Sure, attempt to murder Jews in Michigan. That's a message she has promoted.
Mairey has also pushed this video suggesting the Golders Green attack was a "false flag" operation. It draws on the crackpot Annie Machon for support. 2/6
A blood libel. One of the most toxic hatred pits, redolent of medieval antisemitism. 3/6
…asked for the route of a PSC march to be changed, so people could finally go to synagogues in the area of a Saturday without coming across hordes of shouting “intifada!” extremists. Some Jews had simply stopped going because of the hate marches, which were big, frequent,.. 2/14
...and appalling in those times. For once, the Met listened. It did not ask for much either. Merely a route change, with a starting point at Russell Square rather than the BBC.
The “Palestine Solidarity Campaign” responded with a furious tantrum. No fewer than 46 MPs... 3/14
What does today's Green Party want? Hatred and violence.
Try Chandi Chopra, a candidate in Newcastle. Her opening came when Hollie Mildenhall “stepped down as a candidate” in March 2026. Mildenhall had been convicted of criminal damage at a defence plant in the city. 1/10
Chopra is no improvement. She backs Mildenhall wholeheartedly. As Mildenhall went on trial, she wrote: “we hope to see a lot more of this at EACH and EVERY arms factory across the UK making money from genocide, war or conflict. F4CK them all to hell.” 2/10
The hatred is strong and burning. In this typically agitated video, she makes it clear that Israel and Palestine - namely, “the squatter entity of Israel” - is the only issue she really cares about in Newcastle politics. She brands serving councillors “war criminals”. 3/10
You’ve heard the solemn rhetoric. You’ve seen the earnest pledges and the concerned faces in Golders Green.
Now reality in Britain in recent days. First, creeps dressed like terrorists shouting for terrorists at a defence plant near Bristol this morning. “Intifada!” 1/11
Bristol appears to be a place where “intifada” won’t get you in trouble. There is no consistency in UK policing.
They added “smash the Zionist settler state!” and "resistance is justified!", just to be sure you know they back racist terrorists bent on genocide for the Jews. 2/11
It appears gatherings worthy of the KKK are becoming a norm outside Parliament on Wednesdays. Here are some of yesterday's toxic messages.