Policing of pro Palestinian marches

Policing of pro Palestinian marches

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President Merkin

3,030 posts

20 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Vipers said:
Farage fekked up again.
He didn't though. he did exactly what he always sets out to do. Sow division, stir the pot, make bad situations worse. He is a cancer on public discourse. Lying is merely the currency.

Vipers

32,894 posts

229 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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President Merkin said:
Vipers said:
Farage fekked up again.
He didn't though. he did exactly what he always sets out to do. Sow division, stir the pot, make bad situations worse. He is a cancer on public discourse. Lying is merely the currency.
Spot on.

Tango13

8,449 posts

177 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Countdown said:
Killboy said:
oyster said:
So Farage lied?
Or was incorrect?

Has he posted an apology yet for being wrong?
He is an "entertainer".
Poundshop Bernard Manning
But harsh on Bernard Manning imho, having seen a few programs & interviews with Bernard Manning when he was being himself as opposed to a commedian he always struck me as a decent bloke.

After all, Manning named his house 'Shalom' the Hebrew word for 'peace' not something I could ever see that odious armpit farage doing

z4RRSchris

11,302 posts

180 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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DSLiverpool said:
At 59 this is most (the only) time I’ve been concerned being Jewish in the U.K.

So much so I’m thinking of changing my company name which is my surname.

Sad worrying times as we continued to amass an anti Jewish army here arriving both legally and illegally.
protesting is not against Jewish people in the UK, or against Jewish people anywhere, its against the actions of the Israeli government only. - its lazy to shout anti semitism. Maybe its been drilled into jewish people that to be against israeli government is to be against the whole jewish people - no ideal thats me speculating about zionism. im not jewish.

"Amass an anti Jewish" army - again lazy to say all Muslim immigrants are anti sematic.

pork911

7,162 posts

184 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Earthdweller said:
We have a small ( relatively ) unarmed Police service with no paramilitary capability and an ethos of policing by consent

Our peer nations, other than Ireland, police by authority and command

The Met mustered 1k police to control umpteen 1000’s of angry protesters.. to say that it only involves 7 arrests and no significant disorder is a WIN on the day

https://news.met.police.uk/news/update-on-arrests-made-by-officers-at-the-coronation-471492

https://news.met.police.uk/news/update-arrests-at-...

Countdown

39,955 posts

197 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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z4RRSchris said:
DSLiverpool said:
At 59 this is most (the only) time I’ve been concerned being Jewish in the U.K.

So much so I’m thinking of changing my company name which is my surname.

Sad worrying times as we continued to amass an anti Jewish army here arriving both legally and illegally.
protesting is not against Jewish people in the UK, or against Jewish people anywhere, its against the actions of the Israeli government only. - its lazy to shout anti semitism. Maybe its been drilled into jewish people that to be against israeli government is to be against the whole jewish people - no ideal thats me speculating about zionism. im not jewish.

"Amass an anti Jewish" army - again lazy to say all Muslim immigrants are anti sematic.
One of the best political achievements of recent Israeli Govts. is conflating any and all criticism of their policies as "anti semitic".

shed driver

2,166 posts

161 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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I wonder whether Corbyn actually had a point that he wasn't anti-Semitic after all?

SD.

Earthdweller

13,591 posts

127 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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pork911 said:
Earthdweller said:
We have a small ( relatively ) unarmed Police service with no paramilitary capability and an ethos of policing by consent

Our peer nations, other than Ireland, police by authority and command

The Met mustered 1k police to control umpteen 1000’s of angry protesters.. to say that it only involves 7 arrests and no significant disorder is a WIN on the day

https://news.met.police.uk/news/update-on-arrests-made-by-officers-at-the-coronation-471492

https://news.met.police.uk/news/update-arrests-at-...
Pointless post is pointless

Eric Mc

122,051 posts

266 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Earthdweller said:
We have a small ( relatively ) unarmed Police service with no paramilitary capability and an ethos of policing by consent

Our peer nations, other than Ireland, police by authority and command

I hope you meant to type "Northern Ireland".

Earthdweller

13,591 posts

127 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Eric Mc said:
Earthdweller said:
We have a small ( relatively ) unarmed Police service with no paramilitary capability and an ethos of policing by consent

Our peer nations, other than Ireland, police by authority and command

I hope you meant to type "Northern Ireland".
No

the Republic of Ireland is the only other European country that “polices by consent and the law in ROI is based on U.K. law and principles, just take a look at the Irish statute book and you’ll see what I mean

The PSNI police by the same principles as in GB and the ROI albeit routinely armed

The Garda is like GB predominantly unarmed, the only other Police force in Europe that is

Zetec-S

5,887 posts

94 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Countdown said:
z4RRSchris said:
DSLiverpool said:
At 59 this is most (the only) time I’ve been concerned being Jewish in the U.K.

So much so I’m thinking of changing my company name which is my surname.

Sad worrying times as we continued to amass an anti Jewish army here arriving both legally and illegally.
protesting is not against Jewish people in the UK, or against Jewish people anywhere, its against the actions of the Israeli government only. - its lazy to shout anti semitism. Maybe its been drilled into jewish people that to be against israeli government is to be against the whole jewish people - no ideal thats me speculating about zionism. im not jewish.

"Amass an anti Jewish" army - again lazy to say all Muslim immigrants are anti sematic.
One of the best political achievements of recent Israeli Govts. is conflating any and all criticism of their policies as "anti semitic".
Flip it around, one of the "best" achievements of anti-semites is to link the actions of the Israeli government to ordinary Jewish people.

The vast majority of those protestors are not anti-semites, but there will be some in amongst them. Of varying degrees... I would say DS is right to be a little concerned, it doesn't take a whole mob, just 1 or 2 to be wound up and looking for an excuse.

I'm not defending the actions of the Israeli government, and the way they are treating ordinary Palestinians is inexcusable. The protestors are marching for a "worthy" cause, it would just be nice if they had the same passion/enthusiasm to protest against the actions of Hamas.

bitchstewie

51,335 posts

211 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Some of the people there are just utter scum.

https://x.com/Vahid_Beheshti/status/17138442109006...

JuanCarlosFandango

7,801 posts

72 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Countdown said:
One of the best political achievements of recent Israeli Govts. is conflating any and all criticism of their policies as "anti semitic".
They've had a fair bit of help with that.

z4RRSchris

11,302 posts

180 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Zetec-S said:
he protestors are marching for a "worthy" cause, it would just be nice if they had the same passion/enthusiasm to protest against the actions of Hamas.
Hamas are a terrorist organisation. They are also the legitimate government elected of Gaza with 30% odd vote of people who can vote. They will do anything to lead to the establishment of their own state, outside the rule of Israel government.

What they did to the people of Israel last week is deeply wrong, I don't know anyone who supports that. I do know many people who say that the terror they felt is one that the Palestinians feel daily and everyone on both sides should be pushing to a 2 state solution with no more bloodshed.

no one wants to see more Israelis dead, or Palestinians dead.


Skeptisk

7,508 posts

110 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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z4RRSchris said:
Hamas are a terrorist organisation. They are also the legitimate government elected of Gaza with 30% odd vote of people who can vote. They will do anything to lead to the establishment of their own state, outside the rule of Israel government.

What they did to the people of Israel last week is deeply wrong, I don't know anyone who supports that. I do know many people who say that the terror they felt is one that the Palestinians feel daily and everyone on both sides should be pushing to a 2 state solution with no more bloodshed.

no one wants to see more Israelis dead, or Palestinians dead.
Is Hamas the legitimate government? I’ve read on other posts that they won an election but have not allowed another vote since. I have no idea how much real support they still have amongst the population in Gaza.

SweptVolume

1,091 posts

94 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Earthdweller said:
We have a small ( relatively ) unarmed Police service with no paramilitary capability and an ethos of policing by consent
If only they all stuck to shagging by consent...

Solocle

3,300 posts

85 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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z4RRSchris said:
Zetec-S said:
he protestors are marching for a "worthy" cause, it would just be nice if they had the same passion/enthusiasm to protest against the actions of Hamas.
Hamas are a terrorist organisation. They are also the legitimate government elected of Gaza with 30% odd vote of people who can vote. They will do anything to lead to the establishment of their own state, outside the rule of Israel government.

What they did to the people of Israel last week is deeply wrong, I don't know anyone who supports that. I do know many people who say that the terror they felt is one that the Palestinians feel daily and everyone on both sides should be pushing to a 2 state solution with no more bloodshed.

no one wants to see more Israelis dead, or Palestinians dead.
Various PSC social medias glorifying terrorism. A speaker at Brighton PSC calling the massacre "beautiful", now arrested on terrorism charges. https://metro.co.uk/2023/10/13/woman-arrested-susp...

"No one" is rather a stretch, when there were anti-Israeli rallies before the bodies were even cold.

But the "it was a scam" crowd will continue to deny that the far left has an antisemitic bone in its body, while simultaneously cozying up with their "friends" in Hamas and Hezbollah.

Spare tyre

9,591 posts

131 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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DSLiverpool said:
At 59 this is most (the only) time I’ve been concerned being Jewish in the U.K.

So much so I’m thinking of changing my company name which is my surname.

Sad worrying times as we continued to amass an anti Jewish army here arriving both legally and illegally.
Sorry to here that, what a daft time to be alive eh

Oliver Hardy

Original Poster:

2,563 posts

75 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Earthdweller said:
We have a small ( relatively ) unarmed Police service with no paramilitary capability and an ethos of policing by consent

Our peer nations, other than Ireland, police by authority and command

The Met mustered 1k police to control umpteen 1000’s of angry protesters.. to say that it only involves 7 arrests and no significant disorder is a WIN on the day

The U.K. are very good at Evidence gathering and arresting offernders post event

In New York, comparable size, the NYPD put 48k officers on the street on Saturday in uniform

In France there has been serious disorder, likewise Germany and they have Police forces three times the size of the U.K. with large paramilitary elements

Really I don’t think the U.K. and in particular the Met deserve criticism in this case as the number 1 priority is keeping the peace and it seems they succeeded very well on Saturday

As for GB News reports let’s just take them with a pinch of salt
I kind of agree, but even the terrorist watch dog have shown concern.

You have people like Richard Barnard of the Palestinian Action/Extension Rebellion encouraging breaking the law yet as far as i know he has not been arrested, contrast this to the anti monarchy protesters, Lawrence Fox for example or Tommy Robinson - not that I support the English defence league or what ever organisation he ran.

tangerine_sedge

4,796 posts

219 months

Monday 16th October 2023
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Oliver Hardy said:
I kind of agree, but even the terrorist watch dog have shown concern.

You have people like Richard Barnard of the Palestinian Action/Extension Rebellion encouraging breaking the law yet as far as i know he has not been arrested, contrast this to the anti monarchy protesters, Lawrence Fox for example or Tommy Robinson - not that I support the English defence league or what ever organisation he ran.
The difference being that PH isn't full of people defending, sealioning or whatabouting the things that some of the far left have been saying.