Pro-Iran Hate Rally to Go Ahead After Mahmood Bans March
A pro-Iranian ‘hate rally’ in London to mark Al Quds Day will now take place as a static protest after a march was banned by the Government. The Mail has more.
The Home Secretary approved a Metropolitan Police request to prohibit the annual Al Quds Day march on Sunday “to prevent serious public disorder”.
The event – named after the Arabic word for Jerusalem – was created by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini after Iran’s 1979 revolution to express opposition to Israel.
It has long drawn heavy criticism, which grew today after its organisers expressed support for Iran’s former leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was recently killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Faisal Bodi, a spokesman for march organiser the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), insisted the despot was a man of “principle and integrity”.
Asked if he would hold a picture of Khamenei, Bodi told the BBC: “Happily. I would rather hold a picture of the Ayatollah than Keir Starmer or Donald Trump. He was a man of principle, a man of integrity, a man who stood for justice.”
He added: “In the same way I would happily hold a picture of Nelson Mandela and Malcolm X and many other towering personalities.”
Bodi added that Khamenei “stood on the side of Palestine”. He also quoted Tehran’s figures for the number of protesters that had been killed during a recent wave of street protests – rather than independently verified figures that are in the tens of thousands.
Today, the IHRC said it “strongly condemned” the Met’s decision to ban its march and would continue with a static protest.
But Lord Walney, the Government’s former independent advisor on political violence and disruption, said Mahmood had made “the right decision”.
“This has always been a highly questionable march, and it is ludicrous of its organisers to suggest that it’s been entirely good natured and there’s been no extremist or legal material on display,” he said.
“It has been effectively a festival of Jewish of hatred for Jewish people, and there has been clear support for criminal organisations, for prescribed terrorist organisations at the margin.”
IHRC said in a statement this morning: “IHRC strongly condemns the decision by the Metropolitan Police to ban the Al Quds Day March. However, a static Al Quds Day protest will still go ahead.
“We hope to see you on Sunday March 15th InshaAllah. All preparations must continue as planned. We are seeking legal advice and this decision will not go unchallenged.”
The statement added: “If it was not clear already, the police have brazenly abandoned their sworn principle of policing without fear or favour, and have capitulated to the pressure of the Zionist lobby.”
So an antisemitic hatefest on the streets of the capital is okay as long as it doesn’t move around? Weird compromise.
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“The police have […] capitulated to the pressure of the Zionist lobby.”
So if they relent and let this march go ahead, they won’t be capitulating to the anti-Zionist lobby? If ever we needed proof that sectarianism is damaging British politics and society, here it is, plain and simple.
You can be damn’ sure that a static protest to celebrate St George’s day would be dropped on like a ton of bricks…
If these muzzies believe that celebrating Ali Quds day, in England, is necessary then by their own admission they have no interest in being in this country. They should be rounded up and shipped out to Iran PDQ where they can protest their joy and loyalty to 7th century mullahs to their hearts content.
These people do not belong in England.
It looks like there might be a bit of argy-bargy in the capital this weekend.
May be the cops could try to make them feel more at home by using live ammo, aiminhg at their eyes, jus’ like back home in dear old Tehran
Muslims around the world wherever they are living have every reason to “hate” Israel since 1948.
There are many, many Jews and Israeli’s who are ashamed of their governments.
There are also many, many, many jew haters and iranian bots.
What reason?
Nonsense.
Shouldn’t the Jewish people have the right to just ONE country that represents their religion (there is no other Jewish state in the world)? The Zionist movement was successful attempt to allow persecuted Jews from all over the world to establish an independent sovereign nation in what is rightly their ancestral homeland, a tiny parcel of land in comparative terms, that has been occupied by the Jewish people far longer than any Muslim or Arabic settlers.
And which is the freest, richest and most democratic country in the middle east, which contains lots of Christians and Arabs, and which provides jobs and high quality medical care to Palestinians… despite being paid back in hatred.
I am afraid that logic and truth count for nothing to frenzied hordes.
Israel has made little effort to live side by side with the indigenous Palestinians and until they do they don’t have any rights. “Genetic analysis has shown that Palestinians have lived there for thousands of years and longer than Israelis. “Palestine” as a term for a geographical unit and sometimes a regional identity appears in Arab Muslim sources in the 7th and 8th centuries. The “Jund Filastin” (Filastin is the Arabic transcription of Palestine) was a military district of Syria (Sham) in the Umayyad and Abbasid Empires. The chroniclers of later empires that ruled this area referred to it as “Filastin.” There were mints for coins there and the word occurs on some medieval coins. Some Jewish nationalists or Zionists seem to really mind the scientific finding that today’s Palestinians and other Levantine Arabs show strong genetic continuity with the Canaanites. This dismay derives from the Canaanite city-states and small kingdoms having preceded Israel in history, such that they have a stronger claim on being “indigenous”.” Some of this post was written by Juan Cole who is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan. https://www.juancole.com/2023/05/palestinians-indigenous-palestinian.html Genetic… Read more »
I presume that the same logic applies to Muslims and Palestinians that make no attempt to integrate and live side by side with the British. Or is it just everyone else who is wrong.
Have I heard this before somewhere? So the Jews have no common origin but are a mix of groups who adopted the same religion? In the same way that the Britain haters say that Britain has no common genetic or cultural roots but is just a mongrel mix of the different peoples who invaded and settled on these islands over the last 10,000 years or so? But the Muslims in contrast, through their conquests and land grabbing and forced integration of the nations they suppressed, forged a single monolithic nation cum religion whose roots go back to before the dinosaurs?
You haven’t heard it from me other than the vast majority of Jews are from eastern Europe ancestry.
I’m proud to be English and have traced my ancestry back to 1499 and good yeoman East Anglian stock.
Palestinians have more rights to the land of Palestine than Ashkenazy Jews.
Oh please! Just stop referring to them as innocent victims. Some of the things Muslims have done and in some countries still do would make your hair curl.
i don’t care how much of a victim they are portrayed as; I don’t want their filthy habits and increasing demands messing up my country.
Were the French Resistance “terrorists”?
There are well documented atrocities by the French Resistance and even by the French army against German civilians for their “occupation” of France for 4 years.
Palestine has been “occupied” by a foreign force since 1948.
US imperial wars on behalf of Israel has killed 4 million Muslims.
4 million reasons for them to be classed as “victims” and to seek revenge.
I agree that there are far too many foreigners in the UK who are of no benefit to the country.
Blame politicians for that.
I do, but they are responsible for their own behaviour once they get here. Politicians don’t get to decide how they behave, that’s down to them. The way most of them are behaving, certainly does not lead me to have any sympathy for “the cause”. its no wonder Egypt and Jordan would not open the gates for them when Israel sought revenge for the attack on its children. i have it from a reliable source, that the terrorists running Palestine quite happily use their population as a human shield; not a nice thing to do. I’m sure the French resistance did do unimaginable things. What do you think happens in a war? The whole point of a war is that you rid yourself of your chosen enemy as fast as possible with whatever means you can. it really is the case of one man’s freedom fighter is another man’s terrorist. as for the dna thing; well. I have dna in my veins that go back thousands of years of ancestry in this country, yet the government dismisses that completely and has more respect for incoming Muslims of Pakistani and Iranian origins rights in this land than mine. Indeed they have… Read more »
You’re confusing the plight of the Palestinians with Islamic terrorism.
I became interested in world affairs in the late 1970’s and it was clear to me that many Israelis wanted to expel the indigenous population and were not willing to accept a One State solution.
The Palestinian cause has nothing to do with religion and everything to do with state terrorism.
Luckily, there are some Jews in Israel who oppose their apartheid government.
“So an antisemitic hatefest on the streets of the capital is okay as long as it doesn’t move around? “
Like the old censorship laws, the Windmill Theatre staged nudes in tableaux which was allowed as long as the girls didn’t move.
Rules for thee but not for me so sayeth the well integrated special treatment most favoured of Government community.
Multi Culturism is our strength, let me hear you all repeat that, otherwise Sir Keir will punish you
I’m so at the end of my rope with all this bollocks now. I just think we should round up everyone who hates the country and hero-worships actual evil dictators and terrorist regimes within a death cult ( which would totally include many white, treacherous home-grown gonks who got us to this stage in the first place ) and give them one chance to leave of their own volition, if they fail to do so go fully primeval on their arses by banishing them to an uninhabited island ( we may need more than one ) and letting them fend for themselves. If they’re observed making rafts and trying to escape just napalm the b’stards. Let’s take out the trash, en masse, incinerate if necessary. Seriously, my field of f*cks lies barren, so not one could I give; ”Why the f*ck are these imported savages so unrelentingly savage? Because that’s who they are. Full stop. Not “trauma.” Not “poverty.” Not some Biden-era clerical error. This is raw, generational pathology, the kind the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit has catalogued for decades in MS-13, Barrio 18, and Tren de Aragua pipelines. These aren’t aspirational migrants carrying dreams in a knapsack; they’re apex… Read more »
Powerful and unerringly accurate.
I feel your pain as it’s mine too!
well said
Is there not a certain irony in the title the Islamic Human Rights Commission? Which human rights in particular are concerned? As far as I can see there are none. There are no human rights for half the Muslim population – the females. There seemed to be no human rights for the tens of thousands of ordinary citizens who were slaughtered in the streets of Iran simply for expressing their point of view.
And who are the members of this commission? How many women are on board?
I have held an opinion for many years that there should be no mass public marches in this country on matters that do not concern the UK. It seems that every other week the Metropolitan police are tied up with controlling marches about matters in other countries. The huge cost of controlling these marches and the disruption caused in London is getting out of hand and should be stopped. If people wish to protest about human rights in Iran, for example, then let them go to Iran and march there.
100 %.
The reason for this is that the proportion of ethnic English Londoners has more than halved in the last 35 years.
We are strangers in our own land.
Iran had the chair of the UN Human Rights corner not so long ago. Funny old UN eh?
It will be interesting to hear what the lefty woke musicians’ representative bodies have to say about the future of music education in this country. Let’s hear from the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music, the Musicians’ Union, and the Independent Society of Musicians. They will tie themselves up in knots in their attempt not to offend the culturally sensitive.
Can you imagine a pro-Hitler march in London during the Blitz? Seems much the same to me.
Has queer fucking stalin outlawed the IRGC yet?
Of course not, it’s probably against international law or summat.
What an utter w@nker he is.
Not clear to me why they shouldn’t march. Don’t we believe in free speech?
We did, when it applied to everyone; but if it’s an exceptionalist privilege only to talk without criticism and punishment and everyone else gets severely punished if they try to do it too, then no, because it’s not free speech!
So you only believe in free speech if everyone has freedom of speech? If free speech is differentially punished then you give up on it? This completely cuts the ground from under a principled free speech position.