Amazing. Starmer and the British government have imported all the Israel and Jew hating Islamists into the nation in record numbers. They’ve protected the Islamists. They’ve sheltered them. They arrest British citizens for mean tweets and flying British flags, but, barely do anything about Islamists carrying Hamas flags and screaming “Death to Israel”. The government has long tolerated Jew hatred. But, now
Keir Starmer calls student protests on 7 October anniversary ‘un-British’
Keir Starmer has urged students not to protest on the second anniversary of the Hamas-led 7 October attacks on Israel, describing plans for demonstrations as “un-British”.
Every child of Israel should be able to live alongside their Palestinian neighbours in “safety and security”, the prime minister said as he marked the anniversary.
That would be impossible. There’s a reason most Muslim nations refuse to take Palestinians in, and why Egypt has a massive wall separating Gaza from Egypt.
Writing in the Times, Starmer said protests due to take place at universities on Tuesday showed a lack of respect for others. He added that the pro-Palestine protests had been used by some as a “despicable excuse to attack British Jews”.
The prime minister wrote in the newspaper: “Today, on the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7, students are once again planning protests.
“This is not who we are as a country. It’s un-British to have so little respect for others. And that’s before some of them decide to start chanting hatred towards Jewish people all over again.”
Leftists in the UK have followed the lead of Islamists over the last few decades in protesting Israel, then learning to hate Israel, then learning to hate Jews. Government has been complicit in this. Including Starmer.
Starmer’s message was repeated on Tuesday by the education secretary, Bridget Phillipson, who told Sky News: “There is, of course, within our country the fundamental right to protest. It’s a cornerstone of our democracy.
“But my message is that, as we remember the awful atrocities that took place two years ago on October 7, I would just encourage those considering taking part in protests to pause, to reflect and to understand the deep sense of loss that many people in our country will be experiencing today, not least given the appalling attacks we saw at Manchester last week.
Again, same government takes the British flags from British people flying them in protest. Tells counter protesters they can’t. Stops pro-Israel protesters.
And
I could keep going and going, but, I think we all know how the UK is Islamicized.
Maybe not “Olde” British but the new norm for Britanistan.
99% OF British “elites” and “leaders” are stupid.
England and much of Europe is lost.
We’ve saved them twice.
I don’t know that they are worth a third.
Winston Churchill is spinning in his grave.
The last line of the final verse of Rule Britannia tells us of “manly hearts to guard the fair”. Alas! It seems that the manly hearts of British men have vanished under European political correctness.
For the UK: The right to freedom of expression and assembly, which includes peaceful protest, is protected by Articles 10 and 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), incorporated into UK law by the Human Rights Act 1998.
Peaceful Demonstrations: This legal protection applies to peaceful demonstrations only and does not extend to violence or damage.
If Dana were king of the US would he prohibit pro-Hamas protests in the US?
Our savant from St Louis, exercising his freedom of speech, asked:
No, I wouldn’t. However, I would use all of the means at my disposal to identify the pro-Hamas protesters, discharge them from my royal service, and deport any who were not my American subjects. I would have the rest publicly identified, along with their places of employment, in the hope that their private employers would discharge them as well. The freedom of speech does not protect one from the consequences of what they say.
Of course, were I king of the United States, I would not have dithered as did President Joe Biden and his policies for the first 15 months of the war, and given Israel as much aid, short of American troops, as I could, and perhaps would already be no more, perhaps the pro-Hamas demonstrators would have had no one to support. I would have urged Prime Minister Netanyahu to expel all of the Arabs from Gaza, Judea, and Samaria, and annex all of the land to give Israel shortened, more defensible borders, turn Gaza, Judea, and Samaria into the paradise the Jews have made of the rest of Israel, and allowed the ‘Palestinians’ to
turn the neighboring Arab countries into the [insert slang term for feces here]holes they always createmake their fortunes in Egypt and Jordan.Dana would not prohibit protests but would punish the protesters.
A distinction without a difference.
Ellwood, they have the right to PEACEFULLY protest. But that right does not keep their employers from firing them.
And as foreigners they do not have the right to attack the US’s foreign policy.
James,
Should government agents contact the employers and pressure them to fire the employees who protest against government policies?
The First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
The Amendment appears to protect “the people” not just US citizens.
Would you deport legal immigrants who criticize Israel’s policies? Should the government cut funding to universities to force them to expel foreign students who criticize the US government?
So, you are saying that the Capitol kerfufflers had every right to protest, but you also supported the criminal prosecution of them, even though the most the government could do was push the vast majority into a single plea bargain misdemeanor for ‘parading’ in the Capitol, with a maximum sentence of six months, and the majority of them got far less than that?
Then, you were appalled, aghast, outraged that President Trump pardoned them, even though most of them had already served their sentences.
Yes! They had every right to protest peacefully!!
The First Amendment: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Anyone who entered the Capitol Building, attacked any police officer, broke a window or door, trespassed or broke any law was open to be prosecuted.
What you call a kerfuffle was actually part of an insurrection. Trump had been working since the election to overturn the results. The Capitol Kerfuffle was his last gasp effort – it was intended to stop or at least delay the Constitutional certification of the 2020 presidential election. Trump admitted as much. The Donald was protected but many of his underlings (mostly his attorneys) were not so lucky. Rudy, Jenna Ellis, Ken Chesebro, James Troupis, John Eastman, Christina Bobb, Jeffrey Clark, Sidney Powell, Cleta Mitchell…