The Met has the means to clamp down on this hatred
Pro-Palestinian demos are spreading antisemitism and fuelling attacks — police can do far more
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Narrated by Melanie Phillips
There has been much astonishment and concern at the support for Islamic extremism by pro-Palestinian demonstrators in response to the atrocities in Israel and subsequent bombardment of Gaza. At Saturday’s demonstration in London, a speaker was filmed declaring: “What is the solution to liberate people in the concentration camp called Palestine? Jihad”, with some men in the crowd echoing: “Jihad, jihad, jihad.”
Demonstrators have repeatedly been chanting “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”, a call for the annihilation of Israel. Others have chanted an Arabic slogan that extols Muhammad’s slaughter of the Jews in Khaybar, a 7th-century massacre that acts as a war cry against the Jews for today’s jihadis. And some demonstrators have been waving a black Islamic flag.
