In pictures: Jewish anti-genocide protest where police arrested man for saying ‘intifada’

On Friday, the Met Police arrested a man taking part in a Jewish anti-genocide protest organised by the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN). His ‘crime’ was to use the word ‘intifada’, Arabic for ‘uprising’. The Starmer regime has (wrongly) declared the phrase ‘Globalise the intifada’ to be hate speech, but not just the word ‘intifada’. True to form, however, police enforcers are using it as a pretext for arrests.

Activist photographers Chiara Contrino and ‘BetterThanReal’ were on the scene and have kindly shared their work with Skwawkbox and the Canary. Chiara captured the protesters — and also a handful of pro-Israel trolls who turned up, trying to intimidate the protesters by filming them:

The ‘No appetite for genocide!‘ protest took place outside the ‘Miznon’ restaurant in London — which is run by Israelis, with some of the staff freshly back from assisting the genocide as IDF troops.

‘BetterThanReal’ captured dramatic scenes as police moved in on the demo, then arrested their victim for using an Arabic word for shaking off oppression. They would hate Shelley’s poem ‘The Masque of Anarchy’, which tells listeners to ‘rise like lions’ and:

Shake your chains to earth like dew.

Solidarity with all protesters facing Starmer’s ‘lawfare’ for peacefully opposing genocide and the UK state’s collaboration in it.

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