There was a horrendous far-right gathering in London yesterday. Racist cries cut through the air like a knife. One attendee wished death on an entire race. Others celebrated the mass murder of ethnic minority people. Some even wore fascist-adjacent uniforms, showing off their supremacist ideology to a shocked city.
People in London were cosplaying as Hamas murderers. And we’re told to worry about some noisy blokes in tracksuits having a run-in with cops?
I am speaking, of course, about the ‘March for Palestine’, not that collection of right-wing hotheads at the Cenotaph. Yes, those rowdy men were a menace. They certainly caused a headache for the cops. They accounted for the ‘vast majority’ of the 126 arrests made yesterday. But for the most visceral racism, the kind we dreamt had been scrubbed from our society, it’s the other demo you had to look to.
Essentially there were two far-right marches in London yesterday.
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