Israel is the Gideon Falter of the world
by Melanie Phillips:
Just like the campaigner, the Jewish state is victim-blamed.
After more than six months of demonstrations by Palestinian-supporting hate mobs, it took one bold initiative to demonstrate that Britain’s Jews have been abandoned by the Metropolitan Police.
Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, tried to cross the road in central London where anti-Israel demonstrators were marching. He had been to synagogue and was wearing a kippah and carrying his tallit bag.
In a confrontation that has now became famous, he was stopped by a police officer who said: “You are quite openly Jewish. This is a pro-Palestinian march. I’m not accusing you of anything but I’m worried about the reaction to your presence.” If he chose to remain, he would be “causing a breach of peace” and arrested for antagonising a large group of people, the officer added.
Whether or not Falter was being disingenuous, as the police claimed, he dramatised two important things. Firstly, those supposedly “peaceful” marchers against Israel pose a real threat to Jews; secondly, in attempting to protect Falter himself (under threat of arrest), the Met showed how it was failing to protect Jews in general.
The hard truth is that the mobs threatening violence are simply too enormous for the police to handle. Resisting them would create a riot.
That’s principally because successive governments have done nothing to curb Islamic extremism, which is driven by murderous hatred of Israel and the Jews and which, aided by the hard left, is the main driver of these demonstrations.
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