Not bad to see so many protestors

Posted on November 17, 2023November 17, 2023 by obligingworldviewer

The news about the many protestors, against what is going on in Israel and the reaction it caused in many places, that turned up on 11 and 12 November in many countries pleased me much. In a certain way, it indicated that many people are not willing to believe all the propaganda and are serious about not willing to allow war crimes.

We cannot continue to watch at the sidelines how Gaza has become a graveyard for babies and small children. Bombs are falling everywhere, whilst humanitarian aid cannot reach the people who need it.

For many Jews around the world, Israel is a symbolic safe haven and representation of their faith, but Jewish opinion is far from monolithic.

In several countries, residents forget that not all Jews agree to the terrible reprisal measures Israel is taking after the barbaric acts of Hamas, last suffered on October 7. As a Jeshuaist or Messiah-recognizing Jew, it must be from the heart that what those ultra-Orthodox Jews, or, better said, Right Ultra-Orthodox Jews perform in Israel is a stain on our name.

Many Jehudiem or Jews living in Israel and beyond do not agree at all with what the far-right government of Netanyahu is doing in Israel. They are aware that a lot of undemocratic things have been happening for a while now, some of which even go against human rights.

In Great Britain, last week, there was a big discussion about allowing, or not, a pro-Palestinian rally on Armistice Day.
In London, the organisers of the march, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, invited all people of conscience to join them in peacefully marching. On Saturday, they were only thinking about 500,000 people would come to converge in London, making it one of the largest political marches in British history. More than double turned up, at certain moments the protestors could even not advance.

Protesters on Vauxhall Bridge, London, marching in solidarity with Palestine and calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war on 11 November. Photograph: Vuk Valcic/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

A shame it was to see how right-wing protestors used the peaceful march to make amok.

“The extreme violence from the rightwing protesters towards the police today was extraordinary and deeply concerning.”

said the Metropolitan Police.

“They arrived early, stating they were there to protect monuments, but some were already intoxicated, aggressive and clearly looking for confrontation. Abuse was directed at officers protecting the Cenotaph, including chants of:

‘You’re not English any more.’”

Ben Jamal, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which coordinated Saturday’s march, criticised British politician and barrister Suella Braverman, a member of the Conservative Party.

“Those including Suella Braverman who have pushed notions of hatemongers and terrorist sympathisers marching in London seeking to disrespect Armistice Day are complicit in what occurred.”

Jamal said.

Jamal accepted that some placards were antisemitic, but hailed the protest as “overwhelmingly peaceful” and blamed “pro-Israel actors” for deliberately seeking out examples of antisemitism.

He said:

“The message being delivered by these pro-Israel actors is that these isolated incidents prove that the march was pro-Hamas or an unsafe space for Jews.”

Jamal also said he had counted 10 examples on social media among 800,000 marchers.

“Some of the placards shown and incidents captured are antisemitic,”

he said.

“The organisers, including PSC, would dissociate ourselves entirely from them. But we reject absolutely the attempt to suggest that they are indicative of our views or the vast majority of those marching.”

While patients and babies died in large numbers at Al Shifa Hospital, because there was no power for the machines, Israel shot at other hospitals and as such neglected the warfare conventions.

It was nice to see how more than 100,000 people participated in a march in Paris on Sunday to protest rising antisemitism since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, Tens of thousands more marched in other French cities. Political leaders from the left, centre, and right participated in the Paris demonstration under heavy security. President Emmanuel Macron, who didn’t attend, urged French citizens to oppose

“the unbearable resurgence of unbridled antisemitism.”

Macron also previously called on Israel to stop killing babies, women and elderly people in Gaza as the country comes under mounting international pressure, including from its main ally the US, to do more to protect Palestinian civilians.

In response to Macron’s comments, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said world leaders should be condemning Hamas and not Israel.

“These crimes that Hamas [is] committing today in Gaza will be committed tomorrow in Paris, New York and anywhere in the world,”

Netanyahu said.

Israel has said that Hamas militants, who are holding as many as 240 hostages of different nationalities taken in last month’s attack, would exploit a truce to regroup if there were a ceasefire.

But, many people thought that Israel should bind and allow the Gazans to evacuate or withdraw safely somewhere.

France has Europe’s largest Jewish population and has faced antisemitism flareups in the past. It has recorded 1,247 antisemitic acts since Hamas fighters conducted a deadly surprise attack in southern Israel on Oct. 7, nearly triple the total 2022. Also, lots of French civilians can not make the difference between what the Israeli right-wing government and the settlers are doing and what the devout Jews think about all that hatred they show.

The important thing is, that every worthy believer in God should make it clear to the world, that there are people in Israel who do not keep to the faith. But also non-believers in God, should make it clear to their government leaders that the ongoing violence cannot be justified as so-called self-defence, like Netanyahu claims.

Preceding