Britain’s Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) advised the Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) on the day of the 2023 terror attack of its intention to hold a protest, a freedom of information request has revealed.
On the morning of October 7th, Hamas unleashed two geographically separate campaigns of murder, rape, and kidnapping. Terrorists targeted the Nova music festival, and villages and kibbutzim close to the border fences separating Gaza and Israel, killing at least 1000 people in total.
As the raids continued, a PSC organiser contacted the MPS in a call logged at 12.50pm to make arrangements for a London march on October 14th, 2023. A police spokesman told the Telegraph:
The Met was contacted on Saturday Oct 7 at approximately 12.50pm via telephone call and informed of the intention to protest. The Met committed this to our systems on the same day and are satisfied that being contacted by telephone was a sufficient means in which to notify the MPS as the event was taking place seven days after notification.
While the Met police and PSC discussed the logistics of the first of many weekend marches through central London—as distinct from the ‘spontaneous’ celebrations of ‘Palestinian resistance’ that broke out on October 7th and on social media—the terror attack continued, concluding on October 9th. By then, the Israel Defense Forces had recaptured Israeli territory and expelled Hamas infiltrators from towns and villages.
According to Dave Rich, the head of policy at the Community Security Trust:
It’s hard to comprehend that while Jews around the world watched with horror as a pogrom took place in Israel on Oct 7, the ghouls at PSC saw the exact same images and thought “let’s have an anti-Israel demo.”
The lack of empathy from the PSC shown to the victims of Hamas won’t surprise anyone. Some October 14th demonstrators brandished glider-themed tributes to terrorists and Holocaust denial materials, while the hateful Arabic chant “oh Jews, the army of Mohammed is returning” was also heard.
One year on, demonstrations in European capitals were still showing all the same traits. Although ‘Pro-Palestine’ marchers may deny it, anti-semitism looks less like a ‘bug’ in their system and more like a permanent feature.
