Whose streets?
Wait, you mean Hamas aren’t the good guys? Are you sure? Did you check with them?
During the protest some activists were heard chanting “Zionist scum, off our streets” and several placards showed support for the Houthi militias in Yemen targeting ships going through the Red Sea.
One pro-Palestine activist on the march could be seen wearing a protective helmet and carrying a riot shield. The man, whose helmet was similar to those used by reporters in combat zones, paraded holding the riot shield with the slogan: “Resistance is justified when your land is occupied.”
One young woman held a placard that read: “One holocaust does not justify another,” in defiance of criticism that such comparisons are anti-Semitic, and another placard showed a bull depicting Gaza goring a person with a Star of David on their body saying: “Slaying of the beast.”
So no wonder the Met is protecting the pro-Palestine marchers and pushing their critics to the ground.
This isn’t new, sadly. It goes back at least as far as the fatwa on Rushdie. It goes back at least to the days when the BBC constantly platformed the Muslim Council of Britain instead of its many critics.
In a video of the incident, Mr Ghorbani is heard shouting, “Shame on you” as officers held him down before saying: “I wrote down Hamas is a terrorist organisation… but they arrested me.”
Mr Ghorbani, an IT professional, said that he had been assaulted by pro-Palestine protesters as he stood holding his sign objecting to Hamas, which is a banned terror group.
Well it may be a banned terror group but it’s also The Authentic Voice of the People, while its critics are nonconforming troublesome rabble.
“They attacked me from behind and hit me in the head,” he said. “They pushed me and told me Hamas is a protector of Palestine. The police destroyed my sign and told me that I had harassed someone in the protest and that is why they arrested me.
“They arrested me because someone who supports Hamas attacked me and I defended myself. After 10 minutes my friends showed them a video of what I was doing and they released me. The person who attacked me was not arrested.”
Because that person is The Authentic Voice of the People.
