Shame on the pro-Palestinian mob for hijacking 7 October

It is one year since the Jews suffered the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since the Nazi era, and what is the British left doing? Raging against the Jewish state. Hitting the streets in their thousands to fume against the nation that was the victim of that carnival of racist killing. They’re protesting not against the pogromists of Hamas who unleashed such horrors on 7 October 2023, but against the country and the people they did it to.

It’s a new low. As Jews in Britain and around the world ready themselves for the painful commemoration of the slaughter of more than a thousand of their people, demonstrators have poured on to the streets of London and other cities to damn Israel as a ‘genocidal’ entity. You couldn’t wait? You couldn’t give it a rest for a couple of days? You couldn’t hold on till 8 October before engaging in yet another noisy display of turbo-smug contempt for the world’s only Jewish nation?

Saturday’s big march in London felt disrespectful in the extreme.