Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016
on January 19, 2025, 9:43 am
A large & vibrant Jewish Bloc on the Palestine Demonstration 25.1.25. We Are The Wrong Sort of Jews
I’ve attended about half the Palestine demonstrations in London and this was the most repressive and coercive yet. It was clear that the gloves were off as the institutionally corrupt and institutionally racist Metropolitan Police saw it as its duty to prevent opponents of genocide from exercising their right to protest and demonstrate.
As I said yesterday, the Metropolitan Police took as their pretext for banning a demonstration to the BBC the lying plaints of Central Synagogue’s neo-Nazi Rabbi Barry Lerer for whom no amount of Palestinian blood shed will be enough.
The excuse of disruption to synagogue goers and the unevidenced fears of racist Zionists was more than enough for the Metropolitan Police to ban any demonstration outside the BBC which functions as the propaganda arm of British imperialism in the Middle East.
Almost as soon as I arrived I saw people being arrested for nothing other than being in the wrong place. I departed after a couple of hours but later saw the violent attack on Chris Nineham, the Chief Steward by 10 police.
Despite the atmosphere of fear and tension caused by the Met’s hostile and aggressive tactics there was a steely determination to face the bastards down. There was a large Jewish bloc present, which is of course invisible to the Met because we are the ‘wrong sort of Jews’ i.e. anti-racist Jews.
Jews 4 Genocide counter-demonstration to Palestine Demonstration 18th January 2025
There was a small, well-protected Jews for Genocide contingent, with their far-right Christian supporters well protected behind Police barriers. I attach a few mugshots of these creeps below.
Graham Bash and I did a joint interview with Crispin Flintoff for Sunday’s show, as did others. It was good to see comrades, despite the freezing cold.
This was the second unprovoked arrest I witnessed on the Palestine Demonstration 18 January 2025
The organisers though did not inform people of what they had planned and it appeared to people that they had no plans. Next time we have to mobilise at the BBC itself, whatever the Police have in mind and if they blockade the BBC to prevent us gathering then fine. That is what they should be – blockaded. In addition we will paralyse Oxford Street and cause commercial disruption and chaos. ctd....
The last working-class hero in England.
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