AIBU to compare pro-Palestine and Tommy Robinson-led protests? Both involve hatred antisemitism or racism and both end up in trouble. Two cheeks of the same ass as I've heard on here before!

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Pro-Palestine and Tommy Robinson-led protests this Saturday with yet again thousands of officers having to spend the day controling these protests. Surely there is a better way. Static protest or once a month for Gaza? I think Tommy's lot isn't weekly like the Gaza lot.

Antisemitism is a major problem and general racism also up. Armoured vehicles are needed now with the first time in 15 years to use them. Terror incidents have risen yet what have either of these 'protests' achieved apart from further divisions!

Stick them in separate areas and tell them to stand with their various placards and keep them there. They ave their virtue signalling and hate fuelled moments but stop annoying the rest of us and keep the costs down - it's costing millions of pounds.

https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-15816041/Met-Police-call-armoured-cars-London-braces-day-pro-Palestine-Tommy-Robinson-led-protests.html

I do

I don't watch anything on Youtube.

Please provide proof.
Proof is provided.
I'm not watching that!

FFS.

You really think that Youtube is proof of anything? Heaven help us all.

You've dismissed it out of hand by refusing to watch it. It could be a public confession on the BBC youtube channel, but that won't matter to you. You've already lost the moral high ground by refusing to even consider you might be wrong.

😂oh dear It's silly to not want £4.5 million spent on policing for 1 day. I'm silly to want the Jewish community to live fear free, without protests going past their homes and synagogues causing fear. It's silly because I think there is hatred on both the PP and TR marches.

Must have hit a nerve then. 🤔

I think you missed the bit about making them static so they don't bring fear to the Jewish community. Protest by all means, but why past unconnected Jewish people in the UK?

Tommy Robinson is somewhat of a friend of the Israeli government, is a self proclaimed Zionist and gets funding from pro-Zionist sources.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/05/uk-jewish-groups-condemn-israeli-minister-invite-tommy-robinson-israel

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/dec/07/tommy-robinson-global-support-brexit-march

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-872232

All for an anti Hamas protest but do it in one place.

Maybe the marchers could pay for the policing.

What about wanting Hamas to stop as well?
Why do we never see anti Hamas protests?

Pro Palestinian is not anti Semitic.

Indeed, how is that stopping protests.

The same with any TR protest, again, in one place and both protests away from each other so it can limited trouble makers from both protests to hurt each other/cause damage to property, cause fear for people going about their daily lives.

At this point I'd take 10 Robinsons rather than the Pallywood brigade. Safer.

Never said it was. What is chanted on those marches calling for action in globalising the intifada is pretty hateful.

No idea. Some poor bloke was attacked when he attended a earlier march with a anti Hamas placard. You'd think he'd be welcome and they all want to see the back of Hamas?

Just kettle them in together and let them fight each other to the end.

Then why past UK Jewish synagogues? How does that protest the Israeli government actions? Is there really any need at all to cause problems for the local Jewish community who are not the Israeli government?

Again static protest away from UK Synagogues would helpp show they aren't 'intending' to increase hatred and fear.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/police-met-protesters-london-palestine-solidarity-campaign-b2676831.html

YABU

So don't click them. Or try to derail them with bizarre antisemitic conspiracy theory youtube channels.

Given the numbers that UTK had last time, I'm not sure that could be described as a fair fight.

I also think that saying TR is against multiculturalism is rather unfair but I don't think this is a hugely rational thread. Perhaps it depends on your definition of multiculturalism. As Kemi Badenoch has said, there is a big difference between being a multi ethnic society and being a multicultural society.

Although arguably also our multicultural society rubs along reasonably well. I think Tommy Robinson would probably agree with that statement? He has very specific concerns - or he did the last time UTK marched, I don't know if he has changed recently.

If we banned all marches on the basis of size then we are in dangerous territory.

anyway, the number of arrests relative to the number of attendees (according to Metropolitan police figures) was very low, and I really hope it goes all right this time.

It’s an American influencer explaining why she takes money from Netanyahu to make posts at his behest. Hardly a conspiracy.

That’s offensive. If you wouldn’t do it to Israelis, don’t do it to Palestinians.

Couldn't make it up 😂😂😂

Alongside videos about how Israel are worse than Nazis.