At an Israel hatred rally in Preston on 22 May, the Labour council leader Matthew Brown was very keen to show his support.
Note the ugly and divisive framing: “an attack on all of us, an attack on humanity”. He followed up with “solidarity from the Preston Labour party!”
A statement of support was also read out to the rally from the local Labour MP Mark Hendick. “Make no mistake, I stand with you on the issue of Palestine.”
So, solidarity with what, exactly?
“Victory to the intifada!” over ”the few” from the swuppie and former Preston councillor Michael Lavalette.
Throw rocks. We know who the real terrorists are. The Israelis are raping Palestinian women. It is a new Holocaust. They are Nazis.
This came from the PA system on the van that led the march.
No BBC. And no Coca-Cola either. Didn’t you know Coke is Israeli? Forsooth. Hassle supermarkets too.
The old annihilation favourite “from the river to the sea”, of course. With some twists. The ridiculous yet sinister “Netanyahu we charge you with genocide” and a proper peacenik chant: “for Palestine we’re gonna fight”.
This is Labour 2021.
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On 8 October, all of us could see the hideous crimes of Hamas.
In Birmingham, some reacted to the worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust with joy, expressed at a protest *against* Israel before it had even counted its dead.
“I am very happy, I am very happy!” 1/6
This man spoke for the Muslim Association of Britain, a nasty Islamist outfit that organises the hate marches.
He got an early start.
“We are gathered today in solidarity with the right to resist." "We are supporting any human being trying to resist.” 2/6
“Thanks be to God! It’s victory! We should be celebrating!”
First the hate speech, then the ludicrous denials.
The Mahmud Sabir - Al Furqan mosque in Birmingham, a registered charity, told The Telegraph a few days back that it "refutes any claim of promoting hateful messages".
The article covered a talk at the mosque by Abdullah Saif, Midlands and Wales manager for the Islamist pressure group MEND.
Is Gaza a “concentration camp”? No. It was. But now it is an “extermination camp”.
And this in a talk on the best “language” for the war. Yes, really. 2/9
Saif stands by those foul words.
Amusingly, the Mend tirade against The Telegraph calls the nutty friend of terrorists Norman Finklestein "an acknowledged world authority on Palestine".
While the ultra racist Chris Williamson is merely an "advocate of Palestinian rights". 3/9