Anyone seen the video where the police officer says a swastika is not anti-Semitic at a pro Palestine March?

[EvangelicalAboutButteredToast]

I know there are lots of pro-Palestine supporters in this area of the board. If not anti-Semitic then what else is it standing for in this context? Apparently it was drawn on some protestors banners.

@Scirocco Are you saying that there is nothing traumatised about IDF soldiers? That the events of 7 October are unlikely to have touched them personally in any way?

Are you saying that about people calling for ceasefires?

But can you understand why the use of swastikas mean that it looks like an anti Israel march?

You say that like it's an accepted practice rather than something which is clearly unacceptable.

I do have some sympathy with the police in that managing large public demonstrations and keeping order can be sensitive and complex . CCTV can be used to track down people who have caused an offence with banners etc at a later date - as I think happened here? Maybe the police on the ground have to focus on any actual physical threats in the moment.

There is quite a big difference between the Nazis swazstika and the Israeli flag. The Nazis killed 6million jews, gypsies and other minority groups, set up concentration camps to carry out their extermination of an entire race.

No - I’m definitely not saying it’s an accepted practice. But even one swastika turns a peaceful March for a ceasefire into something that looks anti Israeli

Peace?

Just because Nazis’ appropriated Indian symbology, reversed it and rotated it 45 degrees, doesn’t mean the original Buddhist swastika (which means well-being and all that is good) is now also a symbol of hate.

Many people can’t tell the difference in the symbols. If it were the original swastika, it’s not anti-Semitic. If it’s the Nazi corrupted, stolen, reversed and rotated swastika, then it is anti-Semitic.

They are more different from each other than a b is from a d.

It wasn’t allowed to go on? The person had already been arrested when the woman was doing the video. The police can’t be the court magistrate and decide innocent or guilty.

There is no such thing as “the swastika” as if there were only one swastika with one meaning in existence. It is a fair question to ask which swastika was on the placard?

The London police all seem to be afraid of the Palestinian protesters so stand by and they fo what they like. Only a few weeks ago the very offensive quote from the rivers to the seas was projected on a public building. The police did nothing to stop it happening.

Has anyone seen confirmation as to whether the alleged Nazi type of swastika was held by a person on the Pro-Palestinian side or the Pro-Israeli side? I ask because I have seen placards saying Hamas are Nazis with the Nazi swastika behind the red ban symbol drawn over it. 🚭 like this no smoking sign.

Bringing the holocaust into this discussion is something I find deeply offensive. You can discuss what is happening without referencing it.

Because it means that the area from the River and the sea should be Palestine. E.g. the destruction of Israel.

Comparing the situation in Gaza with the holocaust is seen as a form of holocaust inversion. There are many interesting articles online about the issue.

The problem with this interpretation is that then the Likud party manifesto which also says from the river to the sea would be calling for the destruction of the Palestinian Territories too? “Between the sea and the Jordan [river] there will only be Israeli sovereignty."

This is really tiresome. Both Israeli lands and Palestinian lands, as recognised by the United Nations, go from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea.

It is widely acknowledged this phrase is used to mean freedom and self rule by both Israelis and Palestinians.

@twinklestar10
You go too far. Calling for any country to cease to exist and be destroyed is hate speech. I have reported your post.

As for the go back to where they came from comment....I'm utterly speechless.

I saw on another thread that poster is a teacher btw.

@twinklestar10 Ironically, you're demonstrating exactly why Israel needs to exist.