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Please no pro Palestine marches tomorrow

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NototerrorismIntheUK · 03/10/2025 15:15

The police and others have called out in the hope that there will be no pro Palestine marches tomorrow. They are stretched and say it will divert resources from trying to protect the Jewish people following the terrorist attack yesterday.

I agree. No march tomorrow AIBU?

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NotsoLovinLefties · 03/10/2025 15:30

DdraigGoch · 03/10/2025 15:29

Nah, it's raining.

Their hatred is strong, a bit of rain won’t stop them.

bythebanksof · 03/10/2025 15:30

@HappyGolmore2 thanks for posting very rare reasonable reply. People are all too happy to deny the threats to Israel, antisemitism and the mass murder of civilians in Gaza.

Cathandkin · 03/10/2025 15:30

NototerrorismIntheUK · 03/10/2025 15:24

Please use this time to chant no to terrorism then as well? Get rid of terrorists? Free the hostages? No? Peace for all maybe?

Please, please don't sing globalise the intifada and from the river to the sea..... (eradicate Israel as it means) etc etc maybe just peace for all?

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You would hope. It won't happen though.

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:31

hattie43 · 03/10/2025 15:27

I think the time for these marches is over . No cause outweighs national security and whilst there are muderous people out there it’s time to calm all this down .

Imagine if people had just decided the time to protest against Apartheid was 'over'.
Imagine if the Civil Rights leaders in the USA in the 60's had just given up. Imagine if all the people arguing and negotiating for peace in Northern Ireland had just stopped because of 'national security'?

Using 'national security' to shut down the right to peaceful protest is a slippery, slippery slope.

Dandeliontea123 · 03/10/2025 15:31

YouveGotNoBloodyIdea · 03/10/2025 15:18

they were not only marching in Brighton last night, they were dancing in the street. Sickening.

This has to stop.

Dancing in the streets? What the hell?

MaturingCheeseball · 03/10/2025 15:32

A sizeable amount of protesters are just rent-a-mob - they want to attack the police and cause trouble. They were in BLM protests, Trans ones and anything else that takes their fancy.

If you asked them to point to the Middle East on a map they’d probably vaguely indicate Australia.

There are radicals who roam MN looking to show how super superior they are but I bet they’ll be only waving virtual Palestinian flags tomorrow because their main work is patrolling threads sneering and calling on posters to “educate themselves”.

Cathandkin · 03/10/2025 15:33

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:24

There's a genocide happening. People have the right to express there feelings about that, regardless of what else is going on in the world.
It is possible to abhor both the murders in Manchester and the genocide happening in Gaza, simultaneously.

I wish they'd said they abhored the murders, but one woman just said "I don't give a fuck about the Jewish community".
This was at the protest, in Manchester, last night. Her right to express herself, as you say, but I found it insensitive and divisive.

HansHolbein · 03/10/2025 15:35

They will be. They can’t help themselves.

They’ll move on to something else when this current Instagram virtual signalling trend stops being trendy.

FirstNationsEnglish · 03/10/2025 15:36

The oldest hatred in a new guise ... now, with Israel, they [the Jewish peoples] endure with a new strength! ...

EsmaCannonball · 03/10/2025 15:37

They'll be enjoying their pro-Hamas march even more. In some ways I think it will be good if the marches go ahead; draw these people out like pus from a boil so we can see who they truly are. I would allow the marches but ban face coverings.

In news that will surprise no-one, the father of the terrorist, a man who called his little baby 'Jihad,' praised Hamas on October 7th. You can see how the terrorist was raised. The father is an NHS surgeon which is scary in itself. Why aren't these people vetted before being allowed to enter and stay in the country? What exactly does it take for the authorities to see red flags? Are these people a danger to their patients in the NHS?

HansHolbein · 03/10/2025 15:37

@EsmaCannonball Grim, utterly grim.

hattie43 · 03/10/2025 15:38

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:31

Imagine if people had just decided the time to protest against Apartheid was 'over'.
Imagine if the Civil Rights leaders in the USA in the 60's had just given up. Imagine if all the people arguing and negotiating for peace in Northern Ireland had just stopped because of 'national security'?

Using 'national security' to shut down the right to peaceful protest is a slippery, slippery slope.

It’s not peaceful though is it , that’s the whole issue .

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 03/10/2025 15:39

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:19

We have the right to peaceful protest and freedom of speech, regardless of how you feel about the cause, so marches should go ahead.
Trying to use hate incidents to shut down freedom of expression is disgraceful.

Your post is a disgrace 😔

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:39

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Sarahconnor1 · 03/10/2025 15:40

Peaceful protest? 40 were arrested just last night in London.

Please no pro Palestine marches tomorrow
DdraigGoch · 03/10/2025 15:40

SriouslyWhutNow · 03/10/2025 15:23

YANBU. Sadly a bunch of zealots will be along any minute now to tell you why they absolutely have to march and how they’re not antisemitic—no honestly they’re not—but that they just have to show their support for Palestine. But they’re just so very sad for what happened in Manchester too, y’know (they just refuse to realise how their actions on and offline contribute to an atmosphere that emboldens people like that).

At least one person yesterday made it clear that she wasn't especially sad for what happened - she didn't support it, she just didn't care enough to even say that she was against all bloodshed.

PraisebetoGod · 03/10/2025 15:40

Palestine Action co-founder, Richard Barnard said on 8 October: "When we hear the resistance, the Al-Aqsa flood (Hamas name for the 7 October attack), we must turn that flood into a tsunami of the whole world"

Cathandkin · 03/10/2025 15:42

Like @EsmaCannonball I would like face coverings to be banned at these marches. Last night's report from the Manchester protest showed at least one man with his face completely covered by a keffiyeh.

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:43

CharlieKirkRIP · 03/10/2025 15:40

They won’t listen to any reasonable demands.

Please follow my lovely Sammy on Instagram and stay strong. ❤️🇮🇱❤️

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPVx8OpiKRz/?igsh=MmNzYzhwMWF3bmRz

One look at your user name and I know not to click on nay link you post

Cathandkin · 03/10/2025 15:43

PraisebetoGod · 03/10/2025 15:40

Right.
When someone shows you who they are, believe it.

Cathandkin · 03/10/2025 15:44

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:43

One look at your user name and I know not to click on nay link you post

I thought you were in favour of freedom of expression?

NotsoLovinLefties · 03/10/2025 15:44

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Ahh yes when you don’t like something that is said pretend they’re a Russian bot. You need to take a long hard look at yourself and the type of people you associate with because yes they were dancing, and celebrating over innocent Jewish people being murdered.

clipboardz · 03/10/2025 15:44

Anyone who attends one tomorrow will be showing themselves up as a nasty piece of work. No excuses anymore, even for the useful idiots.

They don't care

HappyGolmore2 · 03/10/2025 15:45

Sarahconnor1 · 03/10/2025 15:40

Peaceful protest? 40 were arrested just last night in London.

6 for assault, good. Arrest them. It doesn't mean that people should still have the right to protest, but if they breach any conditions - yes arrest them.

Again trying to using 'security' as a reason to shut down civil rights isn't the way civilised countries behave.

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