Yesterday in London there was an inkling of the sort of policing of the Jew haters and Hamas supporters that we should have seen way back in October 2023, but didn’t. For well over a year the Metropolitan Police, possibly under the influence of their Islamic ‘community advisors’, have policed pro-Hamas marches with kid gloves.
The pro-Hamas demonstrations in London started even before the Israelis had started their, in my view, thoroughly morally justified war on Hamas. The pro-Hamas types, who are mostly made up of Muslims and Left wingers, were chanting for the destruction of Israel even before the bodies of the victims of the 7/10 Pogrom were cold.
During the course of the last year and a quarter we’ve seen the Muslims and Lefties chant hatred for Jews and for Israel, call for ‘Jihad’ and even display swastikas on banners. The Met refused point blank during this year to pro-actively police these demonstrations relying on post demonstration appeals to the public for information about miscreants. Even when pro-Hamas people were arrested later on when they got to the courts, they got incredibly lenient sentences. These sentences were especially lenient when compared to the sentences dished out to those who expressed anger on social media following the Southport Atrocity where three young girls were murdered by a knifeman. Those who clearly and obviously were showing support for Hamas, which in the UK is a proscribed organisation, got conditional discharges or minor fines, whilst those who expressed anger over the Southport Atrocity or even those who stood and merely watched the subsequent disturbances, got gaol time.
Since the 7/10 Pogrom the Metropolitan Police have shown the world that they are bent in the manner that they police. They have treated the Muslims and Lefties who make up the bulk of the pro-Hamas marchers significantly less harshly than they have the patriot demonstrations in Whitehall that popped up after the Southport Atrocity. Britain has lived through a period where it seems as if the pro-Hamas demonstrators have had an extra supporter in the form of the Metropolitan Police.
These demonstrators have not only intimidated British Jews from attending the synagogues in Central London on a Saturday (the Jewish Sabbath) but have created a menacing and frightening environment for the tourists and shoppers that Central London financially depends on. According to some figures I’ve seen, attendance at Central London synagogues is down 50% since these pro-Hamas marches started and I dread to think what these intimidatory pro-Hamas marches have done to the takings of shops and service industry firms in the centre of London.
But yesterday (Saturday 18th January) things changed in London for the better. Following a lot of concerted pressure on the Metropolitan Police by Members of Parliament and others, the Met decided that they would police these Islamist and Lefty Jew hatred dominated marches in a much more muscular manner than they previously had done. The Met put conditions on the march which were that the march would not go anywhere near a synagogue that was close to where the march organisers wanted their demonstration to form up.
The organisers of the pro-Hamas march were extremely unhappy about the conditions that the Met imposed on their march and vowed to disobey the, very reasonable in my view, conditions regarding protest route. These conditions were put in place from what I can see to avoid any breach of the peace that would occur and to prevent law abiding Britons being disadvantaged by the physical presence of the march.
Come the day and the organisers of the pro-Hamas march did indeed try to break the conditions imposed on their march by the Metropolitan Police. Marchers did try to push through police lines to get into areas that they had been forbidden by the Met to go into. They also broke conditions that only allowed them to have a static protest.
According to the Met Police there were 77 arrests on the day of participants in the pro-Hamas march. This seems to be a much higher number of immediate arrests than usual and the Met have, at least on this occasion, shown some balls when dealing with these supporters of gross savagery.
Britons were treated to the obscene sight of former Labour Party leader and friend of Hamas Jeremy Corbyn and former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell, pushing against police lines in order to force their way through. Yes you heard that right we had a situation where senior former Labour MP’s were physically trying to breach police lines in order to intimidate British Jews and break reasonable conditions imposed on this march by the Metropolitan Police.
Unfortunately it doesn’t seem that these two cretins were arrested but there was at least one high profile arrest. That was of Chris Ninehan one of the convenors of the Socialist Workers Party front group the Stop The War Coalition. It will be interesting to see how this particular arrest of a well connected, high profile and frankly in my view dangerous left winger is ultimately disposed of. Although it depends greatly on the reason that he was arrested, I suspect that, based on what sentences previous members of these hate marches have got, the courts will give this man a minor slap on the wrist.
Having observed the almost complete decline in quality and effectiveness of the Metropolitan Police over the years, I find myself in the rare and unusual position of having to dish out praise to the Met for the way that they’ve handled this most recent pro-Hamas demonstration. By being tough and proactive when dealing with these pro-Hamas types, the Met have sent a message to the pro-Hamas crowd in the UK that their crap will no longer be tolerated.
Let us hope that the Met continue to treat these pro-Hamas marchers with the policing intensity that they clearly deserve. I don’t think that we should relax, pressure should be kept up on the Met to make sure they don’t backslide into a situation where they appease these hate marchers under the influence of the Wormtongues amongst their Islamic ‘community advisors’. Members of Parliament and members of the public need to not sit back on their laurels following this exhibition of the Met’s new approach to the pro-Hamas hate marches lest the Met sink back into their usual appeasing ways. Those Members of Parliament and others who have pressured the Met into this new position do need to be praised and supported and more political pressure needs to be applied to the Met to make this new approach to the hate marchers permanent.
Although I’m pleased to see the Met becoming more robust with the pro-Hamas marchers it would have been much better for the security of London and the public image of the Met had this style of policing been employed in the first place. Failing to properly police these hate marches has emboldened both the organisers of them and those who participate in them to become even more aggressive and gross.
The softly softly policing of the hate marchers has given those who participate in them permission to get worse and worse. The soft pedalling by the Met over jihad chants or swastikas being displayed, support for proscribed organisations and clear calls for a genocide against Jews, hasn’t reduced the tensions surrounding these hate marches nor has this policy made these demonstrators any less extreme. I’d say that the Met’s prior policy towards the pro-Hamas marchers has made the bad security situation that these marchers have created much much worse.
Well done to the Met for finally standing up to this motley crew of Islamists, revolutionary left wingers and Jew hating morons. It’s just a damned shame that the Met didn’t make the decision to take this more robust approach on October 8th 2023.