Sadiq Khan Refuses to Call for Cancellation of Pro-Palestine Protest
Sir Sadiq Khan has refused to endorse calls for pro-Palestine protesters to cancel their demonstrations following the Manchester synagogue terror attack. The Telegraph has more.
The Labour Mayor of London stopped short of demanding organisers call off Saturday’s protest in support of the banned terror group Palestine Action. Instead, he defended the right to “peaceful” and “lawful” protest but said those considering attending should be “mindful of the appalling terror attack”.
Some 1,500 people are expected to turn out for the protest organised by the campaign group Defend Our Juries, at which they will risk arrest by showing support for Palestine Action.
The group has rejected calls by both Shabana Mahmood, the Home Secretary, and Sir Mark Rowley, the head of the Metropolitan Police, to abandon the protest in respect for the victims and communities affected by the Manchester terror attack, in which two men died and three others were seriously injured.
Sir Mark suggested the protests could “stir up antisemitism” and create “further tensions” when communities were most fearful.
Ms Mahmood said pro-Palestinian protests after Thursday’s terror attack were “entirely wrong,” “un-British”, “dishonourable” and “insensitive” to Jewish communities.
However, a spokesman for Sir Sadiq said: “Sadiq has always said that protest is a fundamental cornerstone of democracy, but must be peaceful, lawful and safe.
“He urges those considering protesting tomorrow to be mindful of the appalling terror attack this week, which has devastated our frightened Jewish communities. We all have a responsibility to consider how our words and actions make others feel.”
He added: “As Londoners living side by side with each other, we must always be cognisant about how our actions affect others and seek to support those from other communities. Now more than ever, we need to stand together and show the terrorists who seek to divide us that they will never win.”
The Met Police wrote to Defend Our Juries before the Manchester attack, urging them to drop the plans for the protest on Saturday, which is set to see dozens of protesters arrested for supporting Palestine Action.
However, on Friday, despite further calls to abandon the demonstration, the group issued a statement, condemning the terror attack but maintaining it had a democratic right to protest against restrictions on its free speech through the ban on Palestine Action.
“Cancelling peaceful protests lets terror win. It’s more important than ever to defend our democracy, including our fundamental rights to peaceful protest and freedom of speech, and to take a stand tomorrow against killing and against oppression, and for peace and justice for all,” it said.
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I wonder how many Union Flag or St George’s Cross carrying patriots will be arrested for breach of the peace?
Pro-Palestine “Protests”
They are not really protests, though. They are in fact advocacy marches. They advocate for the planned Second Holocaust. And the interesting thing is that the advocates for the Second Holocaust code their advocacy in the phrase “from the river to the sea” – in much the same way that the First Holocaust was coded as “the final solution”.
Yes they have cynically used and reversed Genesis 15, “Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river, the river Euphrates”.
Shouldn’t these be celebrations now that the Palestinians are going to be managed by the enlightened technocrat Blair?
surely commiserations are in order? Haven’t the Gazan civilians suffered enough already without having to be ruled by Blair?
No.
If the Met had anything about them they would arrest the little khant for behaviour likely to cause a Breach of the Peace. Or, a hate crime given that most of our judiciary are perfectly capable of making any law fit any so-called ‘crime’ they wish to conjure up. Unfortunately the Met, as ever is lumbered with a complete dead leg but I feel better for raising the issue.
“Future leaders in post-war Gaza”? You’ll be lucky if you ever get rid of them.😬
“Pleased to confirm a second cohort of students from Gaza with scholarships at British universities arrived in the UK today to begin their studies.
They could play a vital role as future leaders in postwar Gaza.” Hamish Falconer MP
Seems you can abbreviate Twat to MP.
What Israel (the self-confessed Jewish State) is doing against Palestinian civilians is wrong.
Attacking or killing any civilians is wrong.
All those who do not condemn Israel are complicit and they themselves become a target for revenge in the eyes of those who cannot control their emotions.
It is revenge, NOT anti-Semitism.
Being anti-genocide is NOT anti-Semitic.
It is the democratic right of anyone with a conscience and a moral compass to demonstrate against Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian women and children.
The Manchester synagogue attack by a Muslim (where two people were killed, possibly shot by UK police) was a revenge attack against Jews who may or may not have condemned the Jewish States killing of tens of thousands of innocent Muslims in Palestine.
Yom Kippur is the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. This didn’t stop the Jewish State from killing at least 53 innocent Gazans and commit a mass scale pirate raid in the middle of the sea.
Israel is not a ‘self confessed Jewish state’, to be ‘anti-genocide’ there first has to be an actual genocide, and why do you hold the Jewish state to moral standards that no other country upholds or has ever upheld? Where are you getting your information from?
May I politely suggest reading a few history books on the matter, particularly when one ignores far worse atrocities such as those in Yemen, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Ethiopia and Myanmar.
I’ve been reading “history books” for the last 45 years and am well informed on the situation from a variety of sources.
Not all Jews are Zionists and not all Zionists are Jews.
Many Western governments are run and funded by Zionists.
The financial system is run by Zionists.
Hollywood is run by Zionists.
The main stream media is run by Zionists.
Zionists dictate the narrative.
Do you understand what a ‘Zionist’ is?
Ridiculous question.
I guess that’s a ‘no’ then? Why are you targeting Israel with your selective moral rage?
Zionists run everything yet they can’t stop a 1,500 people protest, or a Muslim running UK’s capital.
Israel is far as I know one of the few states that incorporates a statement about ethnicity in its basic laws:
Basic Law: Israel as the Nation-State of the Jewish People – Wikipedia
I don’t necessarily have a problem with this though the whole business has clearly been problematic. A lot of other countries with longer histories probably never felt the need to declare so explicitly this kind of thing because they didn’t expect to be invaded by aliens (mass immigration) or seemingly they wanted to be invaded by aliens (mass immigration).
But they are not committing “genocide”, they are at war with a hostile state. Until 7th October, they’d left Gaza alone for several years.
“they’d left Gaza alone for several years”????????? Zionists have been killing Palestinians for many, many years. 1. The Haifa Massacre 1937 2. The Jerusalem Massacre 1937 3. The Balad al-Sheikh Massacre 1939 4. The Haifa Massacre 1939 5. The Haifa Massacre 1947 6. The Abbasiya Massacre 1947 7. The Al-Khisas Massacre 1947 8. The Bab al-Amud Massacre 1947 9. The Jerusalem Massacre 1947 10. The Sheikh Burek Massacre 1947 11. The Al-Sheik Break Massacre 1947 12. The Jaffa Massacre 1948 13. The Al-Saraya Al-Arabeya Massacre 1948 14. The Semiramis Massacre 1948 15. The Ramla Massacre 1948 16. The Yazur Massacre 1948 17. The Tabra Tulkarem Massacre 1948 18. The Jerusalem Massacre 1948 19. The Deir Yassin Massacre 1948 20. The Abu Shusha Massacre 1948 21. The Tantura Massacre 1948 22. The Lydda Massacre 1948 23. The Saliha Massacre 1948 24. The Al-Dawayima Massacre 1948 25. The Al-Husayniyya Massacre 1948 26. The Abu Kabir Massacre 1948 27. The Cairo Train Massacre, Haifa 1948 28. The Qalunya Massacre 1948 29. The Nasir Al-Din Massacre 1948 30. The Tiberias Massacre 1948 31. The Haifa Massacre 1948 32. The Ayn Al-Zaytoun Massacre 1948 33. The Safed Massacre 1948 34. The Beit Daras Massacre 1948… Read more »
Again, Israel is not guilty of genocide, and before you start with more accusations, neither is Israel guilty of war crimes, or starvation.
To the contrary, it has done more to protect the civilians of Gaza and Lebanon than any nation that has fought against terrorists who use their civilians as human shields to protect their combatants.
Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, UN commission of inquiry says.
16th September 2025
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8641wv0n4go
Nice try, but not so fast!
Firstly, this independent report does not officially speak on behalf of the UN. Secondly, genocide is only ‘infered’ based on speculation and unreliable terrorist organisation (Hamas) statistics. Thirdly, the report alleges that Israeli authorities and Israeli security forces have committed and are continuing to commit four of the five acts of genocide, thus not reaching the legal status of a ‘genocide’. Fourthly, the UN has since said it “cannot make a legal determination as to whether a situation constitutes genocide under international law”. It goes on to say “a situation is referred to as genocide only after a competent national or international court has declared it as such. Lastly, there’s no official country called Palestine and ‘Palestinians’ as a people were invented in the 1960s.
Why don’t you focus your rage on China, Yemen, Syria or Sudan?
Everyone has a right to self determination, but no one has the right to reinvent history. Whatever you’re reading, it’s badly misleading you.
While you go away and catch up on your Middle East history, look up ‘Uti possidetis juris’.
Whilst Zionist apologists argue the legalise of whether the Jewish state of Israel are guilty of genocide, which is very difficult to prove legally, Israel are still indiscriminately killing women, children and civilians in Gaza.
Your statement is demonstrably false. It seems you have lost all ability to critically think regarding the Israel/Gaza conflict.
I’m happy to have a meaningful dialogue, but I’m not sure you’re capable based on what you’ve stated thus far. A moderate depth examination of the facts debunk everything you’ve stated on this thread – that’s what happens when one doesn’t know enough about a subject to know they’re wrong.
Ad hominem attacks show you have already lost the argument.
That’s not ad hominem, it’s factually descriptive. I have posed several questions, none of which you’ve answered.
I’m sure the German 1933-1945 massacre makes you feel much better.
Disgusting comment.
You left out the Hebron massacre of 1929. Oh no, that was Arabs massacring Jews.
These women have taken a break from being genocided to flog the new iPhone 17. Very enterprising. Good to see the ladies doing their part in the name of martyrdom;
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1974050548681707800
Yes but can we talk about how Nutella are clearly paying Gazans to promote their product? Seems to me it’s a new-fangled ‘Gaza crack’, a highly addictive substance. So much so I think countries should be sending supplies of Ozempic there right about now. Greta should’ve thought on;
https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1973820214937780255
“Israel (the self-confessed Jewish State) “
Do you think they should renounce this? What would be the consequences? Are you against Ethnonationalism? If England declared itself an English state, would you think that wrong? (It’s probably too late for that now we have so many non-English).
Of course not, he probably secretly thinks manchester was great, it’s shame Mr jihad was brought down so soon by an obviously racist copper, and is looking forward to a rerun in London soon.
Are mayoral posts inviolable? How can his tenure be withdrawn as he is clearly not fit for public office.
Is it a case he can only be rejected at the voting box? Ridiculous – and dangerous – if that is the only way.
Any elected official can still be prosecuted if they apparently have broken the law. But just being ‘unfit’, well that’s an election matter.
If it’s any use most ‘machine’ politicians seem apparently invincible – until suddenly they are not. It may take some time though.
“Sadiq has always said that protest is a fundamental cornerstone of democracy, but must be peaceful, lawful and safe”.
Is that so Sadiq? So why did you try to cancel the UTK march a few weeks ago?
As long as the protest fits into the Two Tier system we now have.
Turned out well didn’t it. Hundreds arrested, but how many will be charged ?