Article published in the Daily Express, 9 October 2025. © Richard Kemp

For ‘march for Gaza’ read ‘march against Jews’. That is the reality of these incessant protests with their screams of the Hamas slogan ‘from the river to the sea’ and demands to ‘globalise the intifada’. For those who don’t understand these battle-cries, they call for annihilation of the Jewish state through the kind of terrorist violence seen in the murderous intifadas in Israel from 1987-1990 and 2000-2005. Chillingly, globalising the intifada means spreading terrorism against Jews beyond Israel. We saw how that became a tragic reality in Manchester on Yom Kippur last week.

Flaunting their Jew hate in the immediate aftermath of Manchester and again on the second anniversary of Hamas’s orgy of murder, rape, torture and kidnap starkly exposes the protesters’ true objective of intimidating Jews in this country. Some have rubbed this in by destroying yellow ribbons and posters supporting the hostages that still languish in Hamas’s dungeons.

That is bad enough, but the protests here and around the world do not go unnoticed by Hamas. They have become part of a wide range of signals that encourage and give the terrorists hope that Israel will be pressured into halting its defensive war in Gaza. That hope is strengthened by endorsement among international bodies, including the UN, of Hamas’s fabricated claims of genocide and famine. And don’t forget our own government’s ‘recognition’ of a Palestinian state, so warmly welcomed by Hamas as approbation of their bestial assault on 7th October.

Indeed the Labour government has Jewish blood on its hands. They have not only tolerated the non-stop hate speech at weekly protests; they have also failed to counter the torrent of lies and distortions propagated in this country. No one expects the government to be spokesmen for Israel, but they do have an unequivocal duty to get the truth out to help protect our own Jewish people. Instead they have poured fuel onto the flames by unjust condemnations of IDF action, imposing arms embargoes and even threatening to arrest the Israeli prime minister.

The government knows the truth only too well, but rather than counter the lies, they have shamefully prioritised appeasement of their hard left and Islamist supporters over the safety of British Jews.

Image: Guy Hurst