Protesting has become the UK’s main industry. All other work ceases at the opportunity to get your keffiyeh and take to the streets waving your Palestinian flag, to sing a few songs which sound nice, at an ISIS convention, but are in fact calls for a (proper) genocide. So to ‘stop the babies dying’, it’s perfectly fine to call for the death of all Jews. Yeah, I get that. Totally on board. That’s not ‘antisemitism’, it’s to ‘stop the genocide’ (the other genocide, the metaphorical one).

And today, October 7th, the 2nd anniversary of the Hamas massacre, not one of those people described above will give but one thought to the 48 people still held hostage in the tunnels of Gaza after 2 fucking year. Half of whom are dead. But in fact that’s probably not true. The protesters are thinking of those hostages, because by taking to the streets today, a Tuesday, it makes a statement. That they’re prepared to take action on a working day specifically for the upset it will cause for all people who sympathise with the captives. There is no actual thoughts for the kids murdered and kidnapped at a rock festival. No consideration that women were raped, burned alive, babies shot, whole families annihilated among the 1250 deaths and 500 taken captive. They are no longer ‘the issue’. Not that these good, moral, caring, considerate souls left their Hampshire knitting circles and their Surrey book-clubs to go out on October the 8th that year to have perhaps a vigil? A march of compassion? An understanding of the suffering endured after such a horrendous massacre. No, on that day they left it to their ‘brothers’, who rode up and down the Edgware Road and the Finchley Road waving Hamas flags and celebrating the slaughter of innocents.

The Prime Minister himself(!!!) has asked people NOT to protest today, but to show some compassion, sympathy, decency. He said to protest would be ‘un-British’. Whatever the fuck that means. In all honesty, Kier Starmer trying to stop today’s protest almost had me reaching for my keffiyeh.

I saw a video yesterday. One of several I’ve seen in which someone is cutting down the rows of yellow ribbons put up to support the hostages. They’re not there to show support for bombings or the IDF. Nor arms sales or invasions of the West Bank. The yellow ribbon is about the hostages. And this heartless or moronic bitch was cutting them down. Probably not even aware of their significance other than ‘its something to do with Israel’. I’m not sure what that says, but it ain’t good.

For God’s sake, free the hostages. What’s left of them.

A xxxx