By common consent, there were half a million people on yesterday's March for Palestine. By time-honoured convention, it was barely reported. No, of course the ceasefire is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
In November 2023, Keir Starmer whipped Labour MPs against a ceasefire, and he sacked frontbenchers who voted for one. Jonathan Ashworth is being sent out to claim that Labour had "always wanted" one, but he lost his seat because even then, as late as July 2024, that was the opposite of the case. I have known Jonathan for 28 years this month, although it must be 20 since I last saw him, but when are we going to hear from Shockat Adam? He won. And he was right all along.
Coming days after the synagogue murder, holding this march was vulgar.
ReplyDeleteQuite a few days. And in any case, why?
DeleteTwo deaths, one at the hands of the police and the other by a stoner with no known politics, plus it's antisemitic to conflate British Jews with Israel.
DeletePrecisely. And it was well over a week before the march.
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