The pro-Israel rally had 1% (?) of the attendance of yesterday, yet had:
1. Tommy Robinson attending (plus fans) 2. Tzipi Hovotely on stage speaking 3. One participant screaming: "there will never be Palestine. It's our country. My f***ing country"
Let's see how it's covered
The way that yesterday's pro-Palestine protests were reported on by sections of the media (especially the right wing), shows the double standards at play.
This man was cheered on by so many of the crowd.
And even Tommy Robinson - watch how he is hugged by one of the crowd..
This was a protest of only c.1500 people...
Yet this was what we saw.
Let's be clear. I don't think the organisers of the rally are responsible for Tommy Robinson.
But that's how the coverage of yesterday's much bigger protest was framed.
And it's just ridiculous.
What we can hold the rally organisers for, is who they choose as speakers
And yesterday's rally chose Hotovely.
A person who has a real awful history of racist attitudes
E.g. referred to the 1948 displacement of 700,000 Palestinians as “a strong and popular Arab lie… they made up a story that is called the Nakba”. (Video: fb.watch/5Gi2JsOZre/)
And this is what Haaretz had in a piece: "Hotovely is an unabashed Islamophobe and religious fundamentalist who denies the existence of the Palestinian people and supports annexation of the entire West Bank and Jewish control of the Temple Mount" haaretz.com/amp/opinion/.p…
Hotovely apparently told Palestinian MKs they are "thieves of history"
"Your history books are empty and you are trying to co-opt Jewish history and Islamize it," she said
The Princeton student body cancelled her event after the speech came to light
Denial of the scale of Islamophobia in the Conservative Party is no longer acceptable
Will @BrandonLewis, Chair of @Conservatives, now apologise after he said: "I would dispute that [Islamophobia in the party] is an issue that exists in the first place"?
Will former Deputy Chairman @JamesCleverly apologise, after he had said he didn't agree with @SayeedaWarsi assessment of "almost weekly occurrences of Islamophobic incidents".
There are some very important recommendations laid out in the Investigation, which the Party must take on board.
In many ways these recommendations reflect some of the concerns laid out by the @MuslimCouncil in our previous submission to the EHRC & to the Singh Review itself (see Appendix 3)
The presence of a small number of individuals who espoused awful views in a demonstration of 200,000 people was used to undermine yesterday's pro-Palestine protests in many newspapers and amongst many people
It is the latest in a long list of examples where young children with Palestinian flags, saying "Free Palestine" or expressing pro-Palestinian views are being censured by schools
Of course, shouting "Free Palestine" to another Jewish child, in any way that holds them responsible for Israel's conduct, or expecting them to condemn Israel because they are Jews, would not be okay.
This is the response of the Board of Deputies of British Jews to the careful new report by the internationally renowned and respected human rights organisation @hrw calling out the apartheid of the Israeli regime
Why have some already chosen Tuesday as 1st Ramadan?
Option 1: Assume birth of the moon (on Monday night) is sufficient, even if is not visible in your locality / anywhere in the world
Option 2: Rely on sightability of the moon on Monday night in e.g. Hawaii/S America
See the colours in the moonsighting graphs -> the more to the left you go, the more likely the moon is to be seen in those areas on Monday night; note the latitudinal difference too