Jonathan Hall KC bans for peace, ignores hate

Jonathan Hall KC, the government’s terrorism tsar, wants to ban pro-Palestine peace marches, implying that anti-war protests are dangerous. Hall – whose father-in-law, Lord Dyson, is a patron of UK Lawyers for Israel – has made no such call to ban Tommy Robinson’s Make Europe Great Again March on May 16th or Britain First March for Remigration rally in Manchester two weeks ago.

Hall also visited Israel for the Christmas holidays in 2022.

Stabbings linked to genocide opposition

Hall was implying that the stabbing of two Jewish people in Golders Green by a suspect with “serious violence and mental health issues” was because many people in the UK oppose Western-backed Israeli genocide in Gaza.

Hall also told the BBC that attacks on Jewish people in the UK have now become “the biggest national security emergency” since 2017.

There’s a Tommy Robinson hate rally on the 16th May. Did the KC have anything to say about that? There was a Britain First rally in Manchester two weeks ago too. Anything? https://t.co/8IZHF4PPbB pic.twitter.com/bTiZTAVnIG

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Hall, appearing on Times Radio, said:

It pains me to say this, but I think we may have reached a point where we need to have a moratorium on the sorts of marches that have been happening.

It’s clearly impossible at the moment for any of these pro-Palestine marches not to incubate within them some sort of anti-Semitic or demonising language.

Halls, who recently said in an interview with Spiked that “Islamism is a real problem“, has ironically not called out the real hate oozing out of the fascists in the UK, calling for remigration.

Rising far-right violence

Rising far-right violence is an afterthought for the terrorism tsar, it seems.

There was no condemnation of the stabbing by a pro-Israel, pro-Iranian monarchist recently, or of the racially motivated hit-and-run of a Muslim woman in London, or of the many mosques attacks in the UK recently.

British institutions are making it clear what they want to ignore. So far, there has been no sign of action from police – even as Islamophobia reaches “epidemic” levels.

In fact, the Metropolitan Police have allocated the whole of Whitehall, Parliament Square and Trafalgar Square to Tommy Robinson’s far-right protest on May 16th while denying the Palestine Coalition its preferred route for a peaceful Nakba commemoration on the same day.

At the Britain First rally in Manchester two weeks ago, Greater Manchester Police deployed PAVA spray on anti-racist protesters without warning. They punched, kicked and choked non-violent demonstrators. All to clear the streets for fascists marching for forced deportations.

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The selective outrage by Hall and others is clear as day. When the state protects fascists and polices anti-racists, when the terrorism tsar targets peace marches while ignoring hate rallies, you are seeing how the State is protecting its interests and allies.