Hard to think which is worse, isn’t it? Walking past a sit-in protest on a London railway station concourse urging an end to the carnage in Gaza, or living in the Palestinian enclave under a constant barrage of Israeli missiles. Any sensible person would prefer the former, but in the latter the people don’t have any choice. They are trapped in a blitz of high explosives, their homes reduced to rubble, with no electricity or water supply. Gaza is being pummelled, with full support of Western governments.
In response to the Hamas attack on 7th October, an event that will surely be debated for years to come as a suspected false-flag operation, the Israeli government threatens to wipe Gaza off the map. The defence minister described the Palestinian people as animals, .and thus anyone living in the Gaza Strip, man, woman or child, is fair game. Collective punishment is of course a crime against international law, but when has the Israeli state bothered about rules applied to every other nation? The Holocaust, it seems, justifies anything: stealing land from the native Palestinians, running a brutal Apartheid system, and ethnic cleansing.
The British establishment, including its media whores, rushed to license Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to take whatever action it wants against Gaza. Despite his recent exposure as a sex predator, Nick Cohen was rehabilitated by the Spectator to spout his bile. Douglas Murray, a gay advocate of Judaeo-Christian values, and asset of the security services, has jumped at the opportunity to attack Muslims. Laura Dodsworth and Allison Pearson reacted with mesmerised veneration of the Zionist regime.
Dodsworth made her name in the freedom movement, writing State of Fear on the government’s sinister surveillance and psychologically abusive practices during the Covid-19 pseudopandemic. The book drew deserved plaudits, although I found the last chapter revealing: Dodsworth praised the vaccines before they had been properly tested. Not such a critical thinker after all.
Pearson was a Daily Mail hack before her elevation to the Daily Telegraph some years ago. Like many other commentators to the right of the political spectrum, Pearson railed against woke ideology, but was unable to see the driving force of Cultural Marxism; she accepted the dogma of climate change, merely criticising the more extreme policies; on Covid-19 she opposed school closure but never challenged the validity of the virus or considered its fairly obvious exploitation for globalist ends. She wrote nothing about Klaus Schwab and his ‘Great Reset’. Like Dodsworth, Pearson was no more than controlled opposition.
Dodsworth, in collaboration with Toby Young, produced the ‘October Declaration’, a petition of support for British Jews in their hour of need. Remember the Islamist terror attacks earlier this century, when the focus immediately shifted to a potential ‘far-right’ backlash? This is not quite the same, as Israeli people were killed and taken hostage by Hamas militia, but there was no doubt by the time this declaration was launched that the Israeli armed forces were doing most of the murders. Yet the main problem is anti-Semitism, and Palestinian victims were not directly mentioned in Dodsworth’s appeal: –
‘More Jews were killed on that day than on any other day since the Holocaust. We are aware that Jews are not the only victims of this tragedy. Hamas knew that there would be consequences to 7 October, but the consequences did not weigh with Hamas.’
According to Dodsworth, and our unelected prime minister Rishi Sunak, any deaths in Gaza are the responsibility of Hamas alone. The Israeli doctrine is that for any killing of one of its own citizens, twenty Palestinians must die in revenge. Already the toll in Gaza is approaching ten times the number officially killed by Hamas (although many of these were actually victims of Israeli tank shells or Hellfire missiles from Apache helicopters). How many innocent children must die before Western politicians and journalists feel a little uneasy?
Oh, how badly the supposedly enlightened critics of Covid-19 lockdown have failed this moral test. Thankfully, they are not the majority. Dodsworth’s declaration has amassed about 65 thousand signatures, a quarter of the number signing a petition on the government website for a ceasefire and removal of Israeli occupiers from the West Bank and Gaza. And it pales into insignificance compared with the huge rallies in London and other cities across the UK.
Pearson is enraged by these mass protests. She demands government action to curtail this expression of Palestinian support. Home secretary Suella Braverman wants police to arrest those attending, merely for waving a flag. ‘Hate marches’, according to Braverman. Yet as I have witnessed, the tens of thousands who come to London to demonstrate are mostly ordinary people who are horrified about the massacre in Gaza, and justifiably angry that their taxes are being used to send armaments to Israel. Inevitably a few hotheads get the newspaper headlines, but the marches have shown humanity at its best: Muslims, Christians, atheists and Jews uniting against barbarism.
These protests will grow and grow. On Monday, Pearson tweeted her revulsion at a protest at Liverpool Street station: –
Horrendous scene at Liverpool Street.
Flagrant obstruction of a public space and no arrests.
The police are outnumbered and afraid. So they arrest one man who complained about Palestinian flags in his area.
Time to call in the army @SuellaBraverman https://t.co/mbTR1lchic— Allison Pearson (@AllisonPearson) November 1, 2023
So, after three years of complaining about Covid-19 authoritarianism, Pearson wants the army on our streets. She wants people calling for an end to violence to be violated by soldiers. Pearson talks up Western values, but these have degraded into tacky, distasteful memes. Apparently Western values put the sensibilities of Jewish people in London above the very survival of inhabitants of Gaza, and allow a genocidal ethno-state to kill kids at will.
Pearson should read the lead opinion piece in the New York Times yesterday, by Megan Stack, who asked about the bombardment of civilians: –
‘What outcome does this strategy avert that would be worse than the outcome it has already created?’
