How the State Exploits Jewish Suffering to Silence Gaza Protest
By Gordon Dimmack
On Thursday, the Metropolitan Police wrote to Defend Our Juries, demanding they postpone Saturday’s Trafalgar Square protest. The reason? That opposing genocide amounts to “support for a terrorist organisation.”
The Met claimed their hands are tied, that they need every officer available after the horrific terror attack in Manchester. They said policing the protest would pull resources away from Jewish and Muslim communities at a time of fear.
Starmer’s Plea: Mourning as a Weapon
Keir Starmer waded in too.
“I urge anyone thinking about protesting this weekend to recognise and respect the grief of British Jews this week. This is a moment of mourning. It is not a time to stoke tension and cause further pain.”
But here’s the thing: protesters know full well the issue is Zionism, not Judaism. Nobody is marching against Jewish communities. People are marching against genocide. The only ones stoking tension are the politicians who insist on treating every protest against Israel as an attack on Jews.
That’s not honouring grief — it’s exploiting it.
And what is worse is this: By tying the Jewish community’s grief over the terrorist attack in Manchester with the Pro Palestine protests, the inferrence is that Sir Keir thinks Jews are responsible for the Palestinian genocide.
Which is anti-Semitic.
Sir Keir, who does not believe that Israel is an Apartheid State, has not said anything about the the findings by the United Nations last month, by the way. Which means he’s not just an anti-Semite.
It means he’s a genocide denier, too.
Ten Years of Smears
For the past decade — ever since Jeremy Corbyn dared to lead the Labour Party — every criticism of Israel has been smeared as “anti-Semitic.” We’ve been told again and again that to oppose apartheid is to hate Jews.
But it wasn’t protesters who conflated Judaism with Zionism. It was the establishment and their media allies. They used Jewish identity as a shield for Israel’s crimes, deliberately blurring the lines until no criticism could be voiced without risk of being branded a bigot.
And now, after a despicable attack on a synagogue, those same authorities are exploiting Jewish grief to silence protest. The same people who fuelled this toxic conflation are now weaponising its consequences to crush dissent.
The Met’s Bloody Record
And let’s not forget what happened in Manchester. Three people injured, two killed. The Met have admitted they shot one of the dead and one of the wounded.
Think about that. Palestine Action have never killed anyone. They don’t target people. They target property. The Metropolitan Police, however, have killed more Jewish people this week than every anti-genocide protester and Palestine Action member in Britain combined. Yet they have the gall to brand those same protesters “terrorists.”
That’s how ridiculous this has become.
This law is unpoliceable and they know it. How can people silently holding up signs be prosecuted as terrorists, yet I, a man who said exactly the same thing at the top of my lungs, not be? The police dropped their “terrorism” investigation into me — and I shouted the same words so loud it was reported in The Telegraph!
Protests will go ahead
To say I’m angry is an understatement. Today, these same people will arrest another thousand or so grandmas for holding up signs opposing genocide — and then call them “terrorists.” And they’ll act like they’re the victims while doing it.
Defend Our Juries have said the protest will go ahead as planned. They have a simple solution for the police seeing as they’re so over-stretched: “Don’t arrest us, then!”
Shut It Down. All of It.
This isn’t about “security” or “respect.” It’s about silencing dissent. It’s about protecting Israel and criminalising conscience.
The real dishonour to Jewish grief is politicians like Starmer and his enforcers in uniform weaponising it to justify cracking down on protest.
Protesting genocide is not terrorism. Opposing Zionism is not anti-Semitism. And weaponising Jewish mourning to silence dissent is, quite frankly, fucking disgusting.
These protests are working. The police letter begging DOJ to pause their actions prove it. Arresting pensioners for holding up signs on the pretext of “terrorism” is absurd.
They shouldn’t be paused, these people are protesting a genocide that our government is complicit in. They should grow. We should all be joining them.
They should grow so large the entire country is shut down.
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