To think any "pro-Palestinian" marches today should be stopped?

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Today is the second anniversary of the 7 October attacks.

Apparently "Students from London colleges are planning a joint march in the capital, while Manchester, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Bristol and Sheffield are among other cities said to be expecting protests."

In my view, the timing of these marches proves beyond doubt that they are antisemitic in nature, and there is no place for them on our streets.

Do you agree, and if so, what would you like to see happen?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wgx5v90vyo

I absolutely support this cause but doing it today does seem fairly distasteful

Yes I agree OP. But unfortunately it won’t happen.

What about the timing says to you that these are specifically anti-Semitic and not, say, anti the Israeli government's military strategy?

Oh, come on now... Doesn't 7 October ring any bells for you?

If you were really planning to protest against Israel's actions surely you'd do that on the second anniversary of the start of the IDF response..that's not today.

Agree.

Will Isreal avoid killing any Palestinians today ?

These marchers are disgusting brainless idiots.

Will you learn to spell Israel today?

No because I can’t see the difference and rely on predictive text

but shall I assume that you would also like the killing of Palestinian children to stop for a day ?

I'd like the killing of children to stop for good, of course, thats what everyone wants.

Its I S R A E L. There you go!!

People should be able to peacefully protest whatever they want, whenever they want. The government trying to tell people it "isn't British" to protest is dangerous.

It's distasteful but that's not a reason to remove someone's legally protected right to protest.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" as the saying goes (or in my case, I'll post on MN about your right to say it).

Don't you think the timing of it makes the intentions clear and makes a mockery of any legal right to do so? To me, this is flagrant abuse of our liberal policies.

Freedom is freedom. Whether you like the timing or not. You cannot restrict people’s freedoms by saying that they can only be used at certain times.

I agree. The hatred has no limit.

Maybe it does, but that's not the point (IMO). You arrest people / detain people / remove their rights (to protest in this case) if they break the law, not because you perceive them to be making a mockery of something.

A "protest" on the 7th October feels much more like a celebration of the massacre to me.

Re-reading your title, no.

They should be voluntarily postponed out of respect. They should not be “stopped”. We all have the right to peaceful protest.

We have freedom of speech - even if you don't like that speech. I was sickened by the thousands of angry, right-wing, white blokes in London a few weeks ago, rallied by the likes of 'Tommy Robinson' but recognise their right to protest or whatever they were doing.
We're not quite a police state yet.

One result of the Hamas attack has been the slaughter of 60k+ Gazans by Israel. No one life is worth more than another. So let people protest, or let them remember and give them the freedom of choice to do so.

'Celebrating' a massacre to the extent that someone was showing support for a proscribed organisation (Hamas) would be illegal. Encouragement of terrorism (Terrorism Act 2006, s1) ie. publishing statements that are likely to be understood as encouraging or glorifying terrorism is also criminal offence. So hopefully people would be arrested if, as you say, the marches are more about celebrating terrorism than legitimate protests.

I was thinking just the same.

Well, quite.

Of course freedom of protest exists, but that doesn’t mean it should be exercised without regard for context and consequences.

The timing of this is deliberately provocative and inflammatory. Can't the Jewish people have just one day to mourn, without facing political demonstrations that glorify the attacks with slogans and posters like "Two Years of Resistance"?

I mentioned this on the other post and apparently it's on purpose. People will never stop finding new ways to be ridiculous.

There's a massive protest outside my work today - posters in my building were about celebrating the intifada and there are posters of the 'martyrs' put up everywhere. I have refused to go to work today with the full support of my boss. It's disgusting.