‘Zionist dogs’ placards and support for the ‘resistance’: welcome to London’s Al Quds Day rally

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2. Oh no! A peaceful protest! We can’t be having that, can we? 

3. >The anti-Israel march, which the Met estimates attracted 1,000 people, began outside the Home Office and travelled past Parliament amid a heavy police presence. It culminated outside Downing Street

   Short march – that’s about a 15 minute walk

4. The JC is an intensely Zionist paper. It is totally unreliable as a source.

5. People from the Persian community, including me, are appalled that this irgc/hezbollah sponsored event can just go on in plain sight while useful left wing idiots cheer on

   It’s like 1978-1979 all over again

6. Reminder that on October 7th there were videos of people in London cheering, beeping horns, and waving Palestinian flags.

7. The quintessentially British Al-Quds day march.

   It’s up there with dancing around the maypole and bonfire night.

8. wow that sure looks like a reliable and unbiased news source…

9. Cheers for bringing all your hatred onto our streets. Why not go live in an Islamic country where people actually give a shit or at least pretend like you do?

10. I would put Zionism in a similar dustbin I’d put other extremism.

11. >Thejc

    Incredibly unbiased source there /s

    In September 2014, The Jewish Chronicle published an editorial alleging the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) voted for a “ban on Jews” from the International Union of Architects (IUA) and was, as a result, antisemitic.[41] The RIBA motion had actually called for the suspension of the Israeli Association of United Architects over the building of illegal settlements.[42][43] Following a complaint to the Press Complaints Commission, the Chronicle published a letter of response from David Mond, in which he accused the paper of inspiring “its readers to see antisemitism in every critic” of Israel.[44]

    In August 2016, dozens of prominent Jewish activists including Miriam Margolyes, Ilan Pappe and Michael Rosen signed an open letter criticising the paper for what they viewed as its “McCarthyite” “character assassination” of Jeremy Corbyn after the paper published “seven key questions” for Corbyn, including on his alleged ties to and defence of various Holocaust deniers and on his use of the word “friends” for Hamas and Hezbollah.[45]

    In December 2019, The Jewish Chronicle published an article by Melanie Phillips which asserted that Islamophobia was a bogus term which provided cover for antisemites. The Board of Deputies of British Jews described its publication as an error, and editor Stephen Pollard acknowledged that “A number of people within the Jewish community, and friends of the community, have expressed their dismay – and anger – at its content.”[46]

    When The Jewish Chronicle faced closure due to financial problems in April 2020, former ANC politician and anti-apartheid activist Andrew Feinstein stated: “The Jewish Chronicle’s equating of antisemitism with criticism of Israel has put back the struggle against real AS & all racism by years.” while the freelance journalist Mira Bar-Hillel considered the paper’s potential closure to be “the best news of the day” and referred to it as a “pathetic rag”.[47][undue weight? – discuss]

    In July 2021, a letter was sent to the British press regulatory body IPSO requesting a standards investigation into The Jewish Chronicle due to what the signatories believed to be “systemic” failings. The nine signatories were mostly linked to the Labour party and had either been libelled by The Jewish Chronicle or had complaints about factually inaccurate reporting upheld by the regulator between 2018 and 2021. The complainants alleged that the paper’s editorial standards were “shockingly low” and stated that “unless standards there improve there will be more victims, while readers will continue to be misled.”[48][49]

    Writing in the Byline Times, Brian Cathcart, Professor of Journalism at Kingston University, argued that IPSO had failed to act on “the collapse of journalism standards at The Jewish Chronicle”, which he stated had “been found by the IPSO itself to have breached its code of practice 28 times.” He suggested IPSO’s failure to act was in part due to the regulator’s unwillingness to attract accusations of attempting to silence the paper from the Conservative Party, who benefitted politically from the debate around antisemitism in the Labour Party in which the paper was a prominent player. He also identified The Jewish Chronicle’s owner Robbie Gibb as an obstacle to an IPSO investigation into standards at the paper.[50]

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jewish_Chronicle

12. From one extreme to another. I abhors what Israel are currently doing in Gaza and the West Bank, but this is insanity. Hamas also have blood on their hands.

13. Oh look, a load of deranged racist cunts having a “rally”. If this were the EDL, or whatever lot of rat fuckers “Tommy Robinson” currently supports, there would be universal outrage. Not sure why this mob seems to get away with it

14. If a British party suggested doing a British version of Zionism that treated Jewish people the same way the Israelis treat non-Jews and had politicians making statements like “Jews have higher souls than non-Jews” (Ben Dahan when he was defence minister), what do you imagine the response would be?

    Ethnic supremacism for me but not for thee, is it?

15. Yet, if I was to hold up a placard referring to “Islamist dogs” the police would arrest me. These days they’ll arrest you for holding up a sign that says “Hamas are terrorists”.

16. What the heck are they protesting about now? Every week it’s something new 😂