Some of us switch off when we hear a ‘loony left’ story. We might cock an eyebrow at the latest tale of progressive idiocy but that’s about it. They’re at it again, we think, and move on. But there are reports this morning of some truly perverse behaviour among the activist classes and we cannot afford to laugh it off or look the other way. It’s far too serious for that.
It’s the revelation that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign applied for the right to protest against Israel on the very day Israelis were being butchered in their hundreds by the neo-fascists of Hamas. On 7 October 2023, Hamas’s pogrom still unfolding, PSC notified the Metropolitan Police of its intention to march against Israel on the streets of London the following Saturday: 14 October.
In response to a Freedom of Information request from the Campaign Against Antisemitism, the Met has confirmed that a representative of PSC phoned up on ‘Saturday 7 October at approximately 12.50pm’
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