They covered up the Holocaust Memorial stone in Hyde Park yesterday. Ok, so that will stop graffiti, vandalism, damage. It’s only a fucking rock. But strangely efficient as a reminder of 6 million people murdered in the Nazi Genocide of yesteryear. Yet, as a symbol of something ‘Jewish’, it is no longer safe in our City. In MY city. Because although our twit of a mayor maintains that ‘there are no no-go areas’, that is simply not the case, during ‘pro-Palestinian’ marches. Because support of Palestinians, something with which we must all surely sympathise, has been hi-jacked by the radicals into vehement hatred for all things Israel and, by not particularly logical extension, all Jews. It started with the ‘from the river to the sea’ being seen as provocative and ‘a bit much’, calling as it does, for an end to Israel and all its people. Now that phrase is normalised and barely noticed as the rhetoric has moved extreme-wards to out and out hate and reviling of all Jews. Even though probably two thirds of those attending the marches really have no idea what it all means, no more than they could identify ‘the river’ or ‘the sea’; on a map of the Middle East.

But even worse than the marches are the student protests. Both here and in the top universities in America. Where police have been involved due to the level of anti-semitism and general hate invoked by the protesters. Again, most of whom are just ‘there for fun’, with many questioned having no idea where Gaza is or who controls it.

The worst is that the other ‘villain’ of the piece is the governments of the respective countries; the UK and USA. For ‘not doing enough’. And it’s always easy to engage the young into anti-government sentiment.

Yet all this plays into Iran’s hands. The orchestrators of all the chaos. They fund Hamas and Hezbollah because they hate Israel. Then they organise October 7th as Israel were about to sign an accord with Saudi Arabia, their greatest enemy. Now we’ve reached a point where the ‘protesters’ are doing Iran’s bidding. Destabilising western democracies, which Iran despises, supporting Hamas, demanding the end of Israel and now, calling for hatred against all Jews. Other than the ‘radicals’ and their superbly efficient PR online machine, most of the ‘protesters’, the liberals, the ‘sympathisers’, those with no ‘skin in the game’, are all doing Iran’s work.

And I hope they’ll be really happy living under an Iran-ruled caliphate (their stated ultimate dream and aim). Where, ironically, the first thing that would stop would be the right to protest. Along with the right to live a free life by any understanding of the term.

At least the rain stopped for long enough to play tennis this morning.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx