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I don’t think the next pro-Palestine march should be banned. I think it should be policed and scrutinised to within an inch of its life. I think there should be an overwhelming police presence, call in the army if need be. And any fucker or group that chants for the death of Jews or jihad or supports Hamas or any terrorist group, holds up an antisemitic placard or anything that could be considered incitement or breaking the law including holding a flag of the Iranian regime or the Ayatollah if the IRGC are proscribed in time, the police get straight in there and pull them out and detain or at the very least get their details and collect evidence to see if a crime has been committed and they can be prosecuted. And anyone who tries to stop them is immediately arrested for interference. At the end that’ll leave about three people. And let’s see how many people turn up to the next one if they know they’ll now be held accountable for their incitement to violence. It’ll then be very clear that these marches were never about calling for peace for Palestinians, otherwise there would be peace signs and condemnations of Hamas, they were always just an excuse for Jew haters to gather and spread their bigotry.

I hate to call coverage like this antisemitic, but how can it not be. A non-lethal crime in Israel getting international coverage like this is odd. Does random acts of violence against Hindus in Pakistan or Muslims in India get similar coverage?

@MarinaPurkiss @JeremyVineOn5 You were shown up as having absolutely zero knowledge on the subject - the only appalling thing here is you think you have a perspective worth listening to, when in fact you are a perfect example of the rhetoric making jews less safe in Britain

I found this whole exchange appalling to be honest… I don’t know how to debate this Genuinely Rude, dismissive, and unable to acknowledge any role that the actions of the Israeli government plays in fanning antisemitism.

This is one of the most jaw-dropping, chilling interviews I have seen. Watch this Rabbi from London, respond to question about the terror stabbing in Golders Green!

Please can we not make this just about marches. It has to be about so much more than that. And can we not talk just about our politicians. Britain’s Jews don’t want to be a political football. We want actual action. That means looking at: - hate preachers in mosques - antisemitism not being prosecuted by the CPS - antisemitism in our political parties - a huge swathe of the left not only ignoring antisemitism but actively encouraging it - antisemitism being allowed to run rampant in the NEU, in our universities, and our NHS - foreign bodies hostile to Jews and the West including the Muslim Brotherhood and the IRGC being allowed to run rampant - even collect money for their charities - while other countries proscribe them - conspiracy theories about Jews being pushed across social media, content creators being encouraged to post it as it makes money - and yes hate speech such as ‘globalise the intifada’ - stop the gaslighting that this is a peaceful cry - a lack of education about antisemitism with many people thinking it began and ended with the Holocaust, and a total lack of education about antizionism. Action has to mean actual action.

BREAKING: Islamists in Nigeria who kidnapped 416 women and children three days ago, say that ultimatum has expedited and they will begin executing the hostages. There has not been a word about this in the media for the last three days. Now they’re starting executions.

The problem with answering, Owen, is that it's long. Because you aren't a little wrong, but spectacularly wrong in kind of evil ways. But you told me not to evade. So let's do it. 1. “No protests in British history have been bigger than opposition to the American and British slaughter of Arabs in Iraq, so what now?” Let's let the twitterati judge. February 15, 2003, London. Police estimate of 750,000 participants in anti-Iraq War protest. Organizers claim as many as 2 million. The biggest one-off protest ever held in London. But here's what I said: "The slaughter of Arabs has never triggered anything remotely similar in scale and regularity and consistency in the history of British marches." Because there were literally *millions* who marched over Gaza, cumulatively, week in and week out, across the entirety of the UK. And many millions more throughout the West. It was everywhere. ACLED recorded 48,000–51,000 protests from October 2023 through 2025 over Gaza, across 130 countries. A third of the city of Amsterdam marched. Hundreds of thousands in Toronto and New York. A million in Pakistan, a million in Algiers, hundreds of thousands in Rabat and Jakarta. Countries that have no connection whatsoever to Israel, aren’t allies of Israel and don’t arm Israel saw the identical phenomenon. And still your best analysis is “you’re a WESTERN ALLY?” Just as an analyst, you really think that encompasses the phenomenon? And even that’s not the truly remarkable part. The remarkable part was the repetitiveness itself, the regularity, the duration and stamina of weekly protests for months and then years. There’s never been anything like it, not for any war, not in the history of Britain. Not even close. That’s a simple fact. Denying that fact is therefore a bad strategy on your part. A better strategy would be to try to explain it. Maybe it’s not nefarious antisemitism – or at least not *just* an obsession with Jews embedded deep in progressive and Muslim-world politics and identity. Maybe it’s because people could see the victims on their TikTok feeds, something they’d never seen at that scale from any previous war. Maybe. I suppose we’ll know in the next war if this is a profound shift in consciousness inaugurated by changes in how we consume information – which would be a beautiful discovery, because it would mean it isn't a surge in antisemitism, and it would also mean that it will be harder to fight wars in future, because everyone everywhere will see the pain of war up close. That would be a beautiful and redemptive outcome, a huge silver lining flowing from the catastrophic tragedy of Gaza. Or maybe none of that will happen, the only images that will ever flood anyone's feed will be of Jewish criminality, and it really is in the end just a new version of the old civilization-organizing bigotry it was of old, once again, like it always does, masquerading as righteousness. 2. “No British columnist has written more about the Saudi war on Yemen.” Holy shit, Owen, it isn’t about you. What a strange and irrelevant claim. Coverage and exposure for Gaza was and remains orders of magnitude – multiple orders of magnitude – larger than it ever was for Yemen or Sudan or Syria or all other conflicts underway everywhere put together in the last three years. It’s vastly greater than Yemen ever got in the darkest moments of that conflict. Even when tens of thousands of children were dying of hunger. Not three-fold or five-fold, not even 100-fold. We're talking 1000-fold and more. 3. “There has not been a Western facilitated war on the very right of Yemenis to exist as a people going back GENERATIONS” You think you're helping the cause of Gaza here, but you're just minimizing the evils of the Yemen war. There has not, in fact, ever been a Yemeni campaign to erase Saudi Arabia. You notice? Nor a pan-Arab and Iranian campaign that launched multiple annihilationist wars and built vast and sophisticated terrorist movements to destroy the entire Saudi people – which might have led the Saudis to take seriously a Houthi commitment to annihilate them. I voted repeatedly for a Palestinian state. My own politics didn’t destroy those attempts. It was the annihilationists on the other side that did that. Up till now you’re just hedging and wriggling and telling half-truths. Here you get kinda evil. And ironically, over the very thing you think gives you moral weight: Yemen’s suffering. 4. “the thousands slaughtered by Saudi bombs over many years in a Yemeni civil war with multiple armed actors is a) a hideous crime b) not even approaching the number of Palestinians slaughtered either in absolute or proportionate numbers, and certainly not in the time scale of Gaza. About 9,000 Yemeni civilians were killed Saudi air strikes in the space of 7 years." Jesus Christ, Owen. The famine. The fucking man-made famine, Owen. Once again, it isn’t about you. You know there are 377,000 dead from that war and you cherry-pick the sliver of statistics that will downplay that into nothingness just to win an argument on twitter. Tell me again how much you cared about Yemen. Just the deaths from military action were over 150,000. And the blockade wasn’t carried out with Western military hardware? It was, dear Owen. “Do you agree that’s a terrible crime?” Yes, you man-child. One of the greatest ever committed. “(Let’s see if you even do or if you supported the Saudi war - spit it out!)” I’m a big fan of bombing the shit of out the totalitarian, slavery-legalizing Houthis. But the famine, holy shit, man. The famine should have shaken the foundations of the world. It never did. Because Jews weren’t involved. Ball's in your court, buddy.

Except that the marches were not, in fact, triggered by “the slaughter of Arabs.” The slaughter of Arabs has never triggered anything remotely similar in scale and regularity and consistency in the history of British marches, even when the slaughter was an order of magnitude larger than the civilian death toll in Gaza and actually and explicitly genocidal in intent. No, it took one added little element this time around to make these marches so big and mobilizing and radicalizing. And that new element wasn’t the death of innocents. Let’s find out how many murdered Jews it will take for Owen Jones to spot the factor that made this movement so much bigger and more politics-defining than anything that came before.

I am, like most British Jews, growing really frustrated with this vague talk about “division and unity and hate.” We have a very specific problem here. An IRGC cut out is recruiting disaffected Islamist-radicalised men, many long known to the police and negligently left ambling about, to a conduct a targeted intifada against the London Jewish community. And both our counter intelligence and counter terror forces are failing to intercept them. I don’t need a mass London rally of well wishers or cultural luminaires to post their wishes — nice as that is — I need an actual security strategy to clamp down on this so my community can go about our lives in peace as is our absolute minimum right. And I need politicians to call the problem for what it is — not good vibes.

The uncomfortable answer from moderate Arabs and Muslims: “Many more will emerge, until you stop giving liberal freedoms to radical Islamists who misuse them and who blackmail you using ‘Islamophobia’ to shield their violent hateful agendas.” You’re welcome. 🌹

@Kathleen_Tyson_ Or maybe the islamification of our terrorists is what should really be terrifying us all

The Israelification of British policing in London is truly a terrifying trend.

Following the antisemitic stabbing of two Jewish people on the streets of Golders Green this morning, words of condemnation are no longer sufficient. This must be a moment that demands meaningful action from every institution, every community, every leader, and every decent person in our country. This is a hatred that we must face down together.

@PeterTatchell Bullshit - you carried a sign calling for this to happen

Another shocking attack on the Jewish community in the UK. SHAME! I stand with Jewish people They are my friends & neighbours - and should never live in fear Fight all hate: speak out, stand up & show solidarity Together, we will defeat antisemitism theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…

The increase of violence against Jews in Europe and America is not the result of the local populations becoming more antisemtic. It's the result of more Muslims moving to these countries and bringing their terror with them. Don't let the media distract you from the real issue.

@PeterTatchell @The_NewArab The intafada was indeed globalised in Golders green today - well done you, you must be feeling very proud

UK court accepts that ban on Peter Tatchell attending Palestine protests is unreasonable He was granted unconditional bail Arrested for placard “Globalise the intifada. NONVIOLENT resistance. End Israel’s occupation of Gaza & West Bank” newarab.com/news/uk-court-… Via @The_NewArab

Jewish people in our country are under constant attack. This is no longer a growing pattern. There is an epidemic of violence against Jewish people. It is now a national emergency and needs to be treated as such by the Government and public authorities.

@Keir_Starmer This is absolutely not an attack on Britain, its an attack on jews - name the problem and deal with it NOW

The antisemitic attack in Golders Green is utterly appalling. Attacks on our Jewish community are attacks on Britain. Thank you to Shomrim, Hatzola and the police for acting swiftly. Those responsible will be brought to justice.

We've allowed the most outrageous slurs against Jews to circulate for years now. A columnist for the nation's great left-of-centre newspaper passes on a baroque horror story about dogs raping prisoners and there are no consequences. A group of men call for the rape of Jewish women from a car and there are no charges. An ex footballer amplifies exaggerated claims from Hamas - even down to a JewRat emoji - and continues to be a 'national treasure' as if it's all perfectly normal. From Birmingham to Tower Hamlets thousands of angry young men march in masks screaming for the death of Jews and for Jihad, and the police look at their feet. Pop stars praise Hezbollah and Hamas and the Glastonbury set cheers. So are we surprised when synagogues are attacked and Jewish Londoners stabbed?

It's very disturbing to me that Britain is full of islamists who at the smallest hint of a riot will form militias and march through the streets. It's honestly depressing and terrifying.

Two people have been stabbed in Golders Green - the heart of London’s Jewish community - at the bottom of my road. The Government needs to get to the root cause of this problem. There can be no stone left turned. The silent majority needs to speak out now. Before it really is too late. Although I fear it already is.