Gaza blockaded

[JustKeepSwimming]

Pay respects? Even the far right media know better than that

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...ed-police.html
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/247522...-anti-semites/

The police did turn up in riot gear and try to block their path. They did not do that with hamas side. Even when the hamas side deviated from their route yesterday and stormed down whitehall all you could see is standard officers sprinting to surround the cenotaph, no riot police anywhere.

You can't use force against one and not the other and then claim any push back against that force is proof that the force was justified.

it seems to me that the Police are scared off the larger hamas protests and refusing to police them normally for fear of violence.

With the far right side, due to their smaller number, they seem happy to crack down on them especially hard.

[BlueSharp]

The police did turn up in riot gear and try to block their path. They did not do that with hamas side. Even when the hamas side deviated from their route yesterday and stormed down whitehall all you could see is standard officers sprinting to surround the cenotaph, no riot police anywhere.

You can't use force against one and not the other and then claim any push back against that force is proof that the force was justified.

it seems to me that the Police are scared off the larger hamas protests and refusing to police them normally for fear of violence.

With the far right side, due to their smaller number, they seem happy to crack down on them especially hard.

Exactly this. It was a breakaway group, where was the riot police, and even the Met have said they were unprepared on Twitter. (https://twitter.com/metpoliceuk/stat...33634413441325).

hey were quick enough to remove JSO oil protesters the last few days as well.
https://www.standard.co.uk/news/lond...-b1120170.html


IMO, there is a culture of fear in the police of being labelled Islamophobic and it's showing in their policing of these events.

This is how they policed student tuition fees protests a few years back. Not even a mention of hate crime here but many more arrests for disorder we see everytime there is a 'Free Gaza' march.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...-war-dead.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-11877034

or a Green peace protest:

https://www.theguardian.com/environm...lution-protest