>>>You seem unable/ unwilling to appreciate other peoples lived experience or acknowledge the placards we have evidence of (even though you insinuate you single handily vetted everyone) so I don't know what else there is to say really?
You are just derailing or attempting to badly.
Am not derailing at all - though I realise that in some online communities (the reason I am not on broader social media) "derailling" actually means disagreeing. Yep I disagree with the title of this thread and the posts of many supporting it. It seems to have sadly become an echo chamber for many so will soon leave it, while the debate and world moves on. It already has of course.
Of course I neither said nor insinuated that I single handedly vetted everyone. I said what I saw.
Thanks for the press link - confirmed what I saw and what the beeb reported. That there was no ignoring of police requests/instructions to delay the start. Despite some including you saying that there was. And despite several making the charge and then ignoring my reasonable questions about the charge.
The press article you linked also makes it pretty clear where that "charge" came from - The Campaign Against Antisemitism.
A recent comms from them said:
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We are continuing to monitor the weekly anti-Israel protests. This week, we publicised concerns from local Jewish community leaders in central London about the route and persistence of these marches. The Met Police tried to ensure that the marches would start at 13:30 on Saturday after synagogue services had finished, but the protesters gathered at midday anyway. The police bolstered security outside synagogues in the area and we have heard from parents who were afraid to walk home with their children.
Not only are the organisers of these marches refusing to respect local communities and the police, but neither are the protesters.
"""
A complete and utter distortion - which they have managed to spread around.
"but the protesters gathered at midday anyway" - yes but as the police made clear this was the gathering time - which had been publicised some time before and could hardly be changed with folks coming from around the country.
The organisers ignored no police requests.
And of course there was no trouble with this synagogue.
As I said I am still learning and didn't even know of their existence until last year. It is now clear to me that their agenda is simply to stop the marches. Full stop. Despite their worthy sounding name.
I also remember last year telling a Jewish friend (jewish according to both Judaic law and Nazi law) that as part of their campaigning they had declared that central London was a no-go zone for Jewish folk. He scoffed (not at me I stress) and said "they just want to stop the marches".
I would encourage folks to sign up to their mailings. Educational.
Oh, and as I have said anti semitism stinks.
Addendum - using charges of anti semitism for other purposes also stinks. For apart from anything else it of course undermines the countering of anti semitism.
Which does undoubtedly exist.