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Palestine solidarity demos in the UK

Fair play:


These kids have now been charged:


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I omitted to mention that in the replies to that Tweet and other, similar ones there was lots of outraged centrist pearl-clutching that anyone could be so irresponsible as to do such a thing whilst others quite reasonably pointed out that there was little or no reaction to the door-stepping of Corbyn by a mostly hostile press. Double standards much?
 
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MoD hit today:
As well as a lobbyist and an electronics company with links to the arms trade:

 
Bit more on the April 15 thing:

This Monday 15th, join us from 8am in Central London to take action in response to the call for a global economic blockade to stop the flow of capital arming genocide.

The Central London meeting location will be shared on Sunday evening. On Monday morning we’ll head to the target location together - so be on time!!
Contact email is A15London@proton.me
 
Busy day today, a lot of direct actions happening - sorry for all the insta links but stuff tends to turn up there first.
London Metric, landlords to Elbit, BAE and Boeing, blockaded in London today:

Rafael blockaded in Newcastle:

Elbit in Kent:

MOD site in Aberporth:

And Elbit investors BNY Mellon hit in Manchester:


Also, Palestine Action related trial starting at Caernafon Crown Court this week:
And Freedom has articles on a blockade of Elbit in Leicester last week:
And a week-long protest at the US Embassy:
 
Just checking: are only Palestine demos this weekend the ones outside Barclays branches?
Dunno if you'll be able to see this, but looks like it from the PSC site:
Will also be a few things happening tomorrow, rally outside parliament in London:
And a banner drop in Manchester:

It's Palestinian prisoners' day then, so may well be stuff happening in other places as well.
 
Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this.

Last night the the BBC reported that

The Met Police has apologised after an officer said an antisemitism charity leader looked "openly Jewish" as he was threatened with arrest for being near a pro-Palestine march.
Gideon Falter was wearing a kippah skull-cap when he was stopped in the Aldwych area of London on Saturday.
He was told by police his presence was causing a "breach of peace", in a video posted online.
Falter is the CEO of the Campaign Against Antisemitism and claims that he wasn't trying to be provocative, but I have serious doubts. Falter's stunt (because that's what it was) was intended to provoke and smear the pro-ceasefire demonstrators, show up the the Met as taking sides and give credence to the claim that Central London on protest days is a "no go area for Jews", despite the fact that thousands of Jews take part in the demos. The news orgs fail to challenge the claims made by groups like the CAA and never interview Jews who are on the marches.

Falter is lying. My bold
Mr Falter, who is chief executive of Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA), said he had been walking in the capital after attending synagogue and was not there to counter-protest.
In footage of the police officers speaking to Mr Falter, posted online by the charity, an officer said Mr Falter would be arrested if he remained at the scene. In response, Mr Falter has accused the Met of creating "no-go zones" for Jewish people.

Falter is not only CEO of CAA, he's also a director and vice chairman of the Jewish National Fund UK, which buys up land on which to build illegal settlements. Here he is being celebrated on the JNF website in 2021.
Last week JNF UK’s Vice Chairman Gideon Falter went on a tour of several life-changing projects that we are supporting in the Negev, seeing first-hand how we are helping people from all walks of life. You can see some of the highlights of the trip in the video below, including Gideon’s inspiring speech to the graduates of the Derech Eretz leadership programme:

Tony Blair is also a trustee of the JNF UK.

The JNF has also funded the CAA not once, but twice.
 
Apologies if this is the wrong forum for this.

Last night the the BBC reported that


Falter is the CEO of the Campaign Against Antisemitism and claims that he wasn't trying to be provocative, but I have serious doubts. Falter's stunt (because that's what it was) was intended to provoke and smear the pro-ceasefire demonstrators, show up the the Met as taking sides and give credence to the claim that Central London on protest days is a "no go area for Jews", despite the fact that thousands of Jews take part in the demos. The news orgs fail to challenge the claims made by groups like the CAA and never interview Jews who are on the marches.

Falter is lying. My bold


Falter is not only CEO of CAA, he's also a director and vice chairman of the Jewish National Fund UK, which buys up land on which to build illegal settlements. Here he is being celebrated on the JNF website in 2021.


Tony Blair is also a trustee of the JNF UK.

The JNF has also funded the CAA not once, but twice.

The original tweet:



There are faults on both sides here.

CAA is a pro Israel Zionist supporting organisation who object to those on demos opposing Israel killing thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and opposing Israel policies towards Palestinians.

No suprise he is leading light in Jewish National Fund. History of which is rooted in ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Land cleared of Palestinians in 48 was handed over to JNF for Jewish settlement. So long history of being a Zionist organisation.

However the video does show an officer telling him he cannot cross the road full of demonstrators due to the march as he looks Jewish. Officer does say this is part of the reason. It was wrong decision.

However he was saying he was just wanting to cross the road. The officer was stopping him. No he wasn't just needing to cross the road he was trying to be provocative

I was at that particular march. Zionist groups have taken to holding counter demo. Filming themselves and trying to make out its not safe for Jews in central London during these marches.

They deliberately try to antagonise marchers to get a response that can use to say these are hate marches.

On that Saturday the police had set up two sets of barrier on Aldwych and a line of police between the counter demo and the march.

It was at point where march came down Kingsway and turned into Aldwych.

March organisers had also put stewards at that point urging marchers that these people weren't worth it and to not stop but continue moving on.

Which with a bit of heckling on both sides did happen.

It must be disappointing for them not to get violent reaction. So I suppose the I just want to cross the road full of marchers is a new one.

I didnt put this photos up before as did not want to give them credibility. But this shows police line / separation and no demo marchers making central London a no go area.

As far as I'm concerned they have a right to protest and the lengths they are going to to try and make out its not safe are rubbish. IMG_20240413_140405.jpgIMG_20240413_140356.jpgIMG_20240413_140216.jpg
 
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The original tweet:



There are faults on both sides here.

CAA is a pro Israel Zionist supporting organisation who object to those on demos opposing Israel killing thousands of Palestinians in Gaza and opposing Israel policies towards Palestinians.

No suprise he is leading light in Jewish National Fund. History of which is rooted in ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Land cleared of Palestinians in 48 was handed over to JNF for Jewish settlement. So long history of being a Zionist organisation.

However the video does show an officer telling him he cannot cross the road full of demonstrators due to the march as he looks Jewish. Officer does say this is part of the reason. It was wrong decision.

However he was saying he was just wanting to cross the road. The officer was stopping him. No he wasn't just needing to cross the road he was trying to be provocative

I was at that particular march. Zionist groups have taken to holding counter demo. Filming themselves and trying to make out its not safe for Jews in central London do to these marches.

They deliberately try to antagonise marchers to get a response that can use to say these are hate marches.

On that Saturday the police had set up two sets of barrier on Aldwych and a line of police between the counter demo and the march.

It was at point where march came down Kingsway and turned into Aldwych.

March organisers had also put stewards at that point urging marchers that these people weren't worth it and to not stop but continue moving on.

Which with a bit of heckling on both sides did happen.

It must be disappointing for them not to get violent reaction. So I suppose the I just want to cross the road full of marchers is a new one.

I didnt put this photos up before as did not want to give them credibility. But this shows police line / separation and no demo marchers making central London a no go area.

As far as I'm concerned they have a right to protest and the lengths they are going to to try and make out its not safe are rubbish. View attachment 420667View attachment 420668View attachment 420669

Falter is now demanding the resignation of Mark Rowley. Who the fuck does he think he is?

I'm well aware of what CAA is and what they do. I've recently had dealings with them. The Green Party referred them to the Charity Commission over their Corbyn smear campaign. That was 4 years ago.,

Over a year ago, the Charity Commission opened a compliance case against the CAA.

The Charity Commission has said it is “assessing concerns” about the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which was at the forefront of antisemitism allegations against Labour under Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership.

The commission has opened a regulatory compliance case against the CAA, after complaints including that the charity is politically partisan.

The CAA made the initial submission to the Equality and Human Rights Commission about antisemitism within Labour, which led to the EHRC finding that the party was responsible for unlawful harassment and discrimination.

The CAA also organised protests outside Labour HQ and a petition, the wording of which was changed from Corbyn “must go” to Labour “must act” after a previous regulatory compliance case. On that occasion the Charity Commission said it had instructed the CAA to change the wording “to ensure it complied with our guidance on campaigning and political activity”.

Jewish Voice for Labour (JVL) has complained to the charities regulator, alleging the CAA is not fulfilling its stated principal charitable objects of promoting racial harmony by the elimination of antisemitism.

It alleges the CAA has engaged in “persistent conflation and equating of antisemitism with criticism of the state of Israel”. This echoed concerns raised by the all-party parliamentary group against antisemitism in a 2015 report, which said “it is important that the (CAA) leadership do not conflate concerns about activity legitimately protesting Israel’s actions with antisemitism, as we have seen has been the case on some occasions”.

JVL, which has had dozens of members investigated by Labour for alleged antisemitism, alleges the CAA is a “partisan political campaigning group”. Charity regulations state that “an organisation will not be charitable if its purposes are political”.
It's gone quiet.
 
I'm pissed of with Falter because he's just gone and absolutely thrown fuel on the fire of people who go 'Jews are manipulative and whining'. Campaign Against Antisemitism do seem to have a habit of setting out to prove their own point and it's fucking annoying because it's counterproductive and you don't actually need to look too hard to find actual antisemitism and discuss it where relevant.
 
Met have just put this out


Way they are going on and you'd think the demos had been causing a lot of problems. All the ones I've been on have been peaceful

What concerns? Concerns are that they are happening at all.
 
This Sky report shows that the an in question was not simply "trying to cross the road".

If I tried to get amongst Britain First at a counter protest I would be thrown to the floor by multiple coppers, arrested for public order offences and put in a van. “To keep the peace”
 
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