Updated report. Apparently because the police officer was a sick it means the person he was a dick to is now right on everything and the Met Commissioner must go for allowing countless anti semitic hate crimes.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsarticles/c4n19j892neo
When I click on it, it says page not found.
There was an elderly Jewish lady who came on LBC yesterday during a discussion about whether the Met Commissioner should resign. She said media coverage of Gideon Falter's stunt was distracting attention from the real issue, which is the attempt by Israel to eradicate the Palestinians either by bombing them or by stealing more of their land. She felt the eradication of Palestinian civilians was a far more pressing issue than whether Gideon Falter can walk against the crowd protesting against Israel's acts of genocide. She said she was born during WW2 and the Gaza experience reminds her of the Jewish experience in the Warsaw ghetto.
She said the media should stop falling for Gideon Falter's distraction technique and said she is part of a 500 strong Jewish block who regularly attend the anti-genocide marches against Israel. She said openly Jewish people on the march are treated very respectfully. She also said no one can claim to speak for the Jewish community as the community is split between those who support Israel's illegal occupation and slaughter of civilians and those who are against it.
I would add that I was at the first protest outside the Israeli embassy on 10 Oct 2023, and witnessed a lone man draped in an Israeli flag walking through the middle of the sea of protestors holding Palestinian flags. He was probably trying to provoke something to generate bad publicity against the protestors but no one touched him or reacted aggressively towards him - he got some odd looks. The police did not intervene to stop him walking through the crowd. So am not sure what the policeman saw Gideon Falter do that made him think he could provoke the crowd to violence.
There have been a small crowd of counter-protestors with Israeli flags at recent marches. It feels like rival football supporters chanting at a football match, but the marches have not turned violent.
At a march last week, a pro-Israel supporter had left the crowd of counter-demonstrators who were held back at a barrier and he had come forward to the 2nd barrier at the edge of the Palestinian march. He had a video camera and was filming while arguing with some young pro- Palestinian supporters. He was asking them to condemn 7 October and they were asking him to condemn the Nakba and he said he did not know what the Nakba was. When they explained it to him he said he did not care about the Nakba, and Israel did what it had to do to acquire and defend its land, and it has a right to kill people (which presumably includes unarmed villagers) to defend its land. Very odd colonial mindset. Anyway, the police were standing around and did not get involved.
