Quote Originally Posted by JamesWales View Post
"Hell of a beating". Give over. I've been consistent in calling out shit that needs calling out and it time you may realise that.

The far-right are idiots. I'm unsure on protocol for the events at the cenotaph on the 11/11, as I've only ever watched the event on remembrance Sunday which I assume is managed. The police didn't want them to attend though and the idiots reacted as idiots did, with violence. Even if the police were unfair or setting some kind of trap in not allowing people to attend, the various attempts to get at protesters shows that many were intent on trouble and rightly and understandable arrested.

So what did we learn? Not much. Far-right are violent idiots. Police continue to allow anti-Semitic chants, but seem to be clamping down a bit more on other behaviours, which is good. Some evidence of police treating different groups differently (they allowed protesters into train stations for sitdown protests for example), but otherwise seem to have done a decent job to keep people apart. My friend was at the event in Cardiff btw which I think seems to be far calmer than London and with less general unpleasantness.

This is the campaign on antisemitism's video of yesterday, which is worth a watch.

"Today, Islamist extremists, the far-left, and the far-right were out on the streets. What a day to be a Jew in London" Hard to disagree with that.

https://x.com/antisemitism/status/17...960873752?s=20
You’re talking as if yesterday changed nothing. It did, before the march we had senior police officers talking what turned out to be rubbish.

https://inews.co.uk/news/met-deploy-...o=in-line_link

The truth was that while it would be wrong to say the pro Palestine element were squeaky clean, the Police are now saying that it was the Cenotaph protectors who were the real problem yesterday

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2445662.html

As for “what a day to be a Jew in London”, I have sympathy for anyone who has felt intimidated by all of the pro Palestine protests, but I’ve also read of Jews joining the pro Palestine rallies and I wouldn’t mind betting that the proportion of Jews on the march yesterday was bigger than the proportion arrested.

On the other hand, if the estimates of 2,000 so called Cenitaph protectors is correct we’re talking about two to three percent of them ended up being arrested - even if we accept the lowest estimate of300,000 I’ve seen of numbers on the pro Palestine march it means.that something like ten thousand of them would have had to have been arrested to maintain parity. Despite this, we’re seeing some trying to make out both sides were equally responsible for the violence - this is clearly not true and your link is another example of the media telling us stuff that is not the reality of the position.

Meanwhile, the woman you have spent much of this thread defending is shamelessly doubling down on her rabble rousing.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-b2445874.html