Police Make Arrests as Pro-Iran Demonstrators Hold Placards Declaring “Boom Boom Tel Aviv” As Thousands Gather for London Al-Quds ‘Hate Rally’ With 1,000 Riot Officers on Alert
Thousands have joined a pro-Iran Al-Quds rally in London, waving militant placards and chanting slogans while riot police flood the streets. The Mail has this report.
Demonstrators congregated on the South Bank of the Thames for prayers and brandished placards declaring “Boom boom Tel Aviv.”
Chants of “From the river to the sea” and “Israel is a terror state” could be heard as people held pictures of the assassinated Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and his successor, Mojtada Khamenei.
Three people have been arrested so far, the Met Police said. One for showing support for a proscribed organisation, one for dangerous driving and a third for threatening and abusive behaviour.
Bobby Vylan – one half of the punk rap duo Bob Vylan – repeated his controversial Glastonbury chant of “Death to the IDF” following a ranting speech at the rally. …
Around a hundred counter-protesters were seen on the opposite side of the Thames ahead of a demonstration organised by Stop The Hate.
They waved Israeli flags while another read “Hamas is terrorist.” Police vans are parked up on nearby Lambeth Bridge, with a police boat seen patrolling the water.
The march has been reduced to a two-hour static protest after the Home Secretary this week banned the planned Al-Quds Day march.
The rally, organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), was due to head through the streets of London but was curtailed by Shabana Mahmood due to the risk of serious disorder.
The Met Police is using the Thames as a buffer to separate pro-Iran demonstrators from a counter-protest who have been told to gather on the north side of the river.
Both groups were told they must leave the area at 3pm. At 3.40pm the Met Police said both groups were dispersing.
The force also said it was “aware of chanting made by a speaker at the Al Quds protest” and said it “will be investigating”. …
Pro-Iran demonstrators held signs which read “Home Secretary, de-prescribe Palestine Action.”
Other pro-regime signs are on display, and one banner which says the “Epstein regime” murdered 168 school children in Iran.
Leaflets circulating at the rally show a picture of Ali Khamenei and the words “No2Nato No2War.”
Bob Vylan told the crowd the West was being run by “cold-hearted monsters”.
He also accused the Government of “gaslighting” protesters and branded the police “pigs”.
“These pigs you see here today are here on the orders given to them by the coward Met Commissioner Mark Rowley,” he said.
“He has refused to meet with organisers of pro-Palestine marches and rallies, but never misses an opportunity to cosy up next to the Board of Deputies.
“The Zionist influence here in the UK is palpable.
“We can feel it. We can see it. We can see it when we look at these pigs that are itching to put their heavy hands on any and every one of us that might challenge the wretched system that they uphold, a system corrupted from the top down, not the bottom up. …
“And I would like to conclude with Death, Death, Death, to the IDF.” …
Police warned before the rally that they would arrest anyone chanting intifada slogans, showing support for Palestine Action or holding placards inciting hate.
More than 1,000 riot police were on standby at the protest centre, while uniformed officers protected mosques and synagogues in the capital and kept guard at the Israeli and Iranian embassies. …
Al-Quds Day began in Iran in 1979 after the Ayatollah’s revolution. It spread to the UK, and has been held in London for 40 years. …
The IHRC was described in the independent review of the Prevent strategy as an “Islamist group ideologically aligned with the Iranian regime, that has a history of extremist links and terrorist sympathies”.
What the heck is the ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ when it’s at home? Are they basically just stewards, then? ”Right, if you’re not wearing a teatowel you’re not coming in.” Planks;
”ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION try to shut down free speech debates at the Al Quds protest today.”
This calls for an old idea I had for effectively policing idiots really making a nuisance of themselves in public: They should have sprayed him with mint sauce. After all, assuming you’ve been thoroughly drenched with mint sauce while trying to pull some pseudo-heroic stunt in public, what else can you than go home and hang your head in shame?
No, mint sauce. The outcome will be that the targetted person will have become wet, green and sticky and will have an intense mint odour. There’s no way anyone will be taken seriously in this state and not really anything to complain about wrt police brutality or anything which would make the speaker appear to third parties as something other than a sorry idiot. Imagine someone who has been drenched in mint sauce by super soaker wielding policemen shouting “Death, death. death to the IDF!” Can the effect be anything else than universal laughter?
Unfortunately your idea founders on the assumption that these people are capable of feeling shame… if they were, they wouldn’t be on the streets in support of a regime that has slaughtered upwards of 30,000 of its own people.
That all good people must naturally share your opinion about this is just your pretty partisan opinion about this. People supporting the other side will be as partisan about that and not shed a tear because the revolutionary guard executed a few thousand law breakers who had it coming. The so-called Islamic Republic couldn’t exist without at least the tacit support of the majority of its population and there’s certainly a minority much larger than 30,000 whose member adamantly support it for religious reasons.
The secular West has grown unenthusiastic about religions because the belief to know the absolute truth about good and evil as decreed by some divine entity easily lends itself to commit what we would call atrocities against people whose ideas of good and evil differ significantly from that. But that’s a sentiment not shared in most parts of the world and also not shared by many people living here. For instance, the attendants of this rallye who are certainly also convinced to have knowledge about absolute good end evil. I think ridicule is a powerful weapon against the vain grandiloquence of someone like this Bob Vylan guy.
I definitely think Britain needs to keep going with these terrorist-supporting protests because it’s basically guaranteed that social cohesion will go up and anti-Muslim hate will reduce as a result. There can be no other possible outcome.🤥 Brendan O’Neill can attest to this as he was there and can speak to how harmonious the entire experience was; ”I was left in no doubt whatsoever of the double standards that fuel ruling-class identitarianism. Imagine if white Brits had gathered to laud a foreign neo-Nazi who revels in the murder of Jews. Or if they had swarmed the streets to swear allegiance to some far-right regime overseas. Fundamentally, though, it was the ideology of multiculturalism that was indicted on the streets of London today. There is a tendency to see multiculturalism as merely divisive. If only. The true social cancer in this self-hating creed is that it actively incites hostility towards the nation itself. It simultaneously inflames a culture of grievance within minority groups while heaping sarcastic derision on Britain and its history, giving rise to an extraordinary amount of anti-British, anti-Western, anti-social animus. I glimpsed that today. A bristling hostility towards me not only for my crime of refusing to hate… Read more »
MajorMajor
28 days ago
Britain 2026.
Vibrant multiculturalism on display.
Give it a few decades, this once tolerant, peaceful and safe country will be an islamo-marxist hellhole. Violent, sectarian, corrupt, decaying third-world dump.
“Police Make Arrests as Pro-Iran Demonstrators…” is an imprecise heading. Is this deliberate or careless? These demostrators are pro IRGC, and/or Pro Islam. The nation of Iran was captured by Islam 40 or so years ago and these ‘individuals’ want to maintain Islamic control.
It was islamic long before this time, just not a theocracy.
Pembroke
27 days ago
The protesters quite clearly don’t like protesting in London; perhaps they could take their march to Tehran. I’m sure the IRG would be only too pleased to accommodate them.
Pete Sutton
27 days ago
The ludiccrous “Bob Vylan” – real name Peregrine Fortesce Robinson – will sink to any depth in the hope of retrieving his showbiz career.
Pete Sutton
27 days ago
The fact that “Al Quds” can be mentioned in an article without explanation (who the ƒ was AlQuds) makes it seem it’s as accepted as a regular part of the English calendar as St Patrick’s (or even St George’s) day…
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Did the ‘pigs’ lay their heavy hands on him? We can only hope…
What the heck is the ‘Islamic Human Rights Commission’ when it’s at home? Are they basically just stewards, then? ”Right, if you’re not wearing a teatowel you’re not coming in.” Planks;
”ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION try to shut down free speech debates at the Al Quds protest today.”
https://x.com/Alexarmstrong/status/2033245218972049603
“ISLAMIC HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION ”
And the prize for today’s most (oxy) moronic phrase goes to…
The islamic human rights commission.
Which comedian dreamed this up?
This calls for an old idea I had for effectively policing idiots really making a nuisance of themselves in public: They should have sprayed him with mint sauce. After all, assuming you’ve been thoroughly drenched with mint sauce while trying to pull some pseudo-heroic stunt in public, what else can you than go home and hang your head in shame?
Or else how about pigs blood?
Or Napalm?
No, mint sauce. The outcome will be that the targetted person will have become wet, green and sticky and will have an intense mint odour. There’s no way anyone will be taken seriously in this state and not really anything to complain about wrt police brutality or anything which would make the speaker appear to third parties as something other than a sorry idiot. Imagine someone who has been drenched in mint sauce by super soaker wielding policemen shouting “Death, death. death to the IDF!” Can the effect be anything else than universal laughter?
Unfortunately your idea founders on the assumption that these people are capable of feeling shame… if they were, they wouldn’t be on the streets in support of a regime that has slaughtered upwards of 30,000 of its own people.
That all good people must naturally share your opinion about this is just your pretty partisan opinion about this. People supporting the other side will be as partisan about that and not shed a tear because the revolutionary guard executed a few thousand law breakers who had it coming. The so-called Islamic Republic couldn’t exist without at least the tacit support of the majority of its population and there’s certainly a minority much larger than 30,000 whose member adamantly support it for religious reasons.
The secular West has grown unenthusiastic about religions because the belief to know the absolute truth about good and evil as decreed by some divine entity easily lends itself to commit what we would call atrocities against people whose ideas of good and evil differ significantly from that. But that’s a sentiment not shared in most parts of the world and also not shared by many people living here. For instance, the attendants of this rallye who are certainly also convinced to have knowledge about absolute good end evil. I think ridicule is a powerful weapon against the vain grandiloquence of someone like this Bob Vylan guy.
Protect the mosques from what?
I definitely think Britain needs to keep going with these terrorist-supporting protests because it’s basically guaranteed that social cohesion will go up and anti-Muslim hate will reduce as a result. There can be no other possible outcome.🤥 Brendan O’Neill can attest to this as he was there and can speak to how harmonious the entire experience was; ”I was left in no doubt whatsoever of the double standards that fuel ruling-class identitarianism. Imagine if white Brits had gathered to laud a foreign neo-Nazi who revels in the murder of Jews. Or if they had swarmed the streets to swear allegiance to some far-right regime overseas. Fundamentally, though, it was the ideology of multiculturalism that was indicted on the streets of London today. There is a tendency to see multiculturalism as merely divisive. If only. The true social cancer in this self-hating creed is that it actively incites hostility towards the nation itself. It simultaneously inflames a culture of grievance within minority groups while heaping sarcastic derision on Britain and its history, giving rise to an extraordinary amount of anti-British, anti-Western, anti-social animus. I glimpsed that today. A bristling hostility towards me not only for my crime of refusing to hate… Read more »
Britain 2026.
Vibrant multiculturalism on display.
Give it a few decades, this once tolerant, peaceful and safe country will be an islamo-marxist hellhole. Violent, sectarian, corrupt, decaying third-world dump.
A decade maybe. No need to pluralise.
“Police Make Arrests as Pro-Iran Demonstrators…” is an imprecise heading. Is this deliberate or careless? These demostrators are pro IRGC, and/or Pro Islam. The nation of Iran was captured by Islam 40 or so years ago and these ‘individuals’ want to maintain Islamic control.
It was islamic long before this time, just not a theocracy.
The protesters quite clearly don’t like protesting in London; perhaps they could take their march to Tehran. I’m sure the IRG would be only too pleased to accommodate them.
The ludiccrous “Bob Vylan” – real name Peregrine Fortesce Robinson – will sink to any depth in the hope of retrieving his showbiz career.
The fact that “Al Quds” can be mentioned in an article without explanation (who the ƒ was AlQuds) makes it seem it’s as accepted as a regular part of the English calendar as St Patrick’s (or even St George’s) day…