The Metropolitan Police has asked the public to help identify pro-Palestine protesters with anti-Semitic placards on Saturday.
A man wearing a keffiyeh scarf was pictured holding aloft a sign that showed the Israel flag with the words “the final solution”, which was the title of the Nazi plan for Jewish genocide during the Second World War.
The placard also depicted two people trying to topple the Star of David with a US flag emblazoned on it.
Another sign compared Nazi concentration camps to Gaza.
Scotland Yard said: “We understand why people are angry and disappointed that this man wasn’t arrested yesterday during the protest. We share those frustrations and obviously we wish he had been.
“We’re appealing for the public’s help to identify this man.
“The reality is with a protest involving 40,000 people where officers are focusing not just on placards but on crowd safety, potential disorder and other offences there will always be some that are missed,” the Met added.
“We have shown that where offences aren’t seen in the moment we will still act, identifying suspects and making arrests.”
**Nude Holocaust victims photograph**
Some 13 people were arrested in the latest of the marches in support of Palestine that have descended upon central London on Saturdays. Most were for offensive placards and bring the number of arrests at related protests in the past two months to 300.
At the same march, a woman was filmed brandishing a cardboard sign with a photograph of nude Holocaust victims being rounded up for death in 1943 alongside an image this year of Gazan men being stripped to their underwear next to Israeli soldiers, with the caption: “Spot the difference.”
The other side of the placard said “stop killing children”.
The Met has asked the woman, who was wearing a beanie hat and a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, “ to come forward”.
Anyone with information has been asked to call 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, quoting 4240518/23 for the “final solution” placard and 4240526/23 for the placard comparing Nazi concentration camps to Gaza.
“placard comparing Nazi concentration camps to Gaza.”
ok, explain what arrest worthy about that, I feel like it’s missing some context on what is actually said, maybe it was comparing Jewish people as the Nazis maybe?
Isn’t this just an example of why grammar is important? If the sign in question is definitely the one described and in the image, it has a question mark which suggests the protestor is asking “is [what’s happening in Palestine] really acceptable and the end goal”? It’s not a statement but a fairly peaceful “is this really the only way?”
The Pro-Palestine protests have been incredibly peaceful compared to the other protests around them. This seems to be clutching at straws. Let’s not forget the far right derailing the pro-Israel protests during Remembrance Day. The US vetoed the ceasefire vote hence their inclusion in the sign. The fact the placard is even shown in the preview image suggests it’s not *that* bad a statement to be asking.
Also, it’s not really anti-Semitism to use that sign. Again, blurring the lines of protest and hate speech, and general ignorance. Anti-zionism is not Anti-Semitism. Anti-Israel (or anti-IDF) is not anti-Jew. What’s happening in Gaza is showing signs of genocide from stripping men down to their underwear and lining them up, to rounding up and forcing civilians into a corner and destroying homes and infrastructure cleansing the land and confiscating property. It’s eerily similar to what happened during WW2 and stomach wrenching to see. This is all fairly well reported as well, including journalists being attacked from trying to report this.
It is telling that not ONE person in the crowd who saw the sign saw fit to take it off and send the fascist carrying it packing.
Carry an openly Nazi banner at any other march and you’ll be told to leave, likely even given a clump round the ear for your trouble. Carry it at a Palestine march and nobody bats an eye.
Is it “Israel’s Final Solution Against Palestinians”, or “Final Solution Against Israelis”? The former is not antisemitic, while the latter is. The sign has Israel/America killing someone with a Palestinian flag, so I think it’s the former and doesn’t warrant arrest.
Helpfully(?) The article has cropped the bottom of the photograph off so you cant see the persons face. How do they expect us to identify them then
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The Metropolitan Police has asked the public to help identify pro-Palestine protesters with anti-Semitic placards on Saturday.
A man wearing a keffiyeh scarf was pictured holding aloft a sign that showed the Israel flag with the words “the final solution”, which was the title of the Nazi plan for Jewish genocide during the Second World War.
The placard also depicted two people trying to topple the Star of David with a US flag emblazoned on it.
Another sign compared Nazi concentration camps to Gaza.
Scotland Yard said: “We understand why people are angry and disappointed that this man wasn’t arrested yesterday during the protest. We share those frustrations and obviously we wish he had been.
“We’re appealing for the public’s help to identify this man.
“The reality is with a protest involving 40,000 people where officers are focusing not just on placards but on crowd safety, potential disorder and other offences there will always be some that are missed,” the Met added.
“We have shown that where offences aren’t seen in the moment we will still act, identifying suspects and making arrests.”
**Nude Holocaust victims photograph**
Some 13 people were arrested in the latest of the marches in support of Palestine that have descended upon central London on Saturdays. Most were for offensive placards and bring the number of arrests at related protests in the past two months to 300.
At the same march, a woman was filmed brandishing a cardboard sign with a photograph of nude Holocaust victims being rounded up for death in 1943 alongside an image this year of Gazan men being stripped to their underwear next to Israeli soldiers, with the caption: “Spot the difference.”
The other side of the placard said “stop killing children”.
The Met has asked the woman, who was wearing a beanie hat and a Palestinian keffiyeh scarf, “ to come forward”.
Anyone with information has been asked to call 101 or contact Crimestoppers anonymously on 0800 555 111, quoting 4240518/23 for the “final solution” placard and 4240526/23 for the placard comparing Nazi concentration camps to Gaza.
“placard comparing Nazi concentration camps to Gaza.”
ok, explain what arrest worthy about that, I feel like it’s missing some context on what is actually said, maybe it was comparing Jewish people as the Nazis maybe?
Isn’t this just an example of why grammar is important? If the sign in question is definitely the one described and in the image, it has a question mark which suggests the protestor is asking “is [what’s happening in Palestine] really acceptable and the end goal”? It’s not a statement but a fairly peaceful “is this really the only way?”
The Pro-Palestine protests have been incredibly peaceful compared to the other protests around them. This seems to be clutching at straws. Let’s not forget the far right derailing the pro-Israel protests during Remembrance Day. The US vetoed the ceasefire vote hence their inclusion in the sign. The fact the placard is even shown in the preview image suggests it’s not *that* bad a statement to be asking.
Also, it’s not really anti-Semitism to use that sign. Again, blurring the lines of protest and hate speech, and general ignorance. Anti-zionism is not Anti-Semitism. Anti-Israel (or anti-IDF) is not anti-Jew. What’s happening in Gaza is showing signs of genocide from stripping men down to their underwear and lining them up, to rounding up and forcing civilians into a corner and destroying homes and infrastructure cleansing the land and confiscating property. It’s eerily similar to what happened during WW2 and stomach wrenching to see. This is all fairly well reported as well, including journalists being attacked from trying to report this.
It is telling that not ONE person in the crowd who saw the sign saw fit to take it off and send the fascist carrying it packing.
Carry an openly Nazi banner at any other march and you’ll be told to leave, likely even given a clump round the ear for your trouble. Carry it at a Palestine march and nobody bats an eye.
Is it “Israel’s Final Solution Against Palestinians”, or “Final Solution Against Israelis”? The former is not antisemitic, while the latter is. The sign has Israel/America killing someone with a Palestinian flag, so I think it’s the former and doesn’t warrant arrest.
Helpfully(?) The article has cropped the bottom of the photograph off so you cant see the persons face. How do they expect us to identify them then