by Jim Chimirie on X
On Sunday afternoon, thousands of people gathered on the Embankment in central London and chanted death to America and death to Israel. A rapper named Bobby Vylan took to the stage and led the crowd in chants of death, death, death to the IDF. Khamenei’s autobiography was on sale for seventeen pounds. Banners celebrated the bombing of Tel Aviv. A speaker from the Islamic Human Rights Commission, one of the ten charities named in Lord Walney’s report on Iranian influence in Britain, addressed the crowd and led them in chants of marg bar Amrika, marg bar Israel. The Metropolitan Police closed Lambeth Bridge, deployed its Marine Support Unit on the Thames, and positioned over a thousand officers to keep the two sides apart. It was, we are told, a normal Sunday in the capital of a sovereign democratic nation.
Bobby Vylan chanted death to the IDF at Glastonbury last year. Avon and Somerset Police investigated and cleared him. The CPS determined there was insufficient evidence to prosecute. He returned to a London stage and did it again. The Met says it is investigating. It investigated last time too.
While thousands chanted death to America on the Embankment, Zarah Sultana, co-founder of Your Party and a sitting MP, was facing a complaint to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards for posting that Zionism is one of the greatest threats to humanity and that Israelis love killing kids. The complaint describes her language as a modern iteration of the medieval blood libel and notes that Nazi propaganda used the precise phrase threat to humanity to justify persecution and ultimately genocide. Since the majority of British Jews identify as Zionists, Sultana has effectively declared that British Jews are one of the greatest threats to humanity. The standards commissioner is examining the matter. Your Party is preparing to contest elections.
And while Sultana normalises the rhetoric in Parliament, Vote Palestine 2026 is operationalising it on the ground.
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