While organizers claim these protests have been largely peaceful, the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) argues that placards carried by demonstrators bear “slogans and imagery that would not have looked out of place in Nazi Germany.”
This past Saturday’s march through central London, which drew more than 300,000 people, saw some demonstrators dressed as Hamas terrorists; chants of “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud, jaish al Mohammed sauf yaud” (an antisemitic call referencing an ancient massacre and translated as, “Khaybar, Khaybar, oh Jews, the army of Muhammad will return”); and banners declaring “Resist and fight Zionism the disease,” and “Welcome to Gaza, twinned with Auschwitz.”
The CAA claimed in a press statement that the Jewish community was “terrified,” and said it had received “multiple reports” of police having to escort congregants as they left synagogues.
But the “hate marches,” as former Home Secretary Suella Braverman dubbed them, are just the most high-profile example of a surge of antisemitism in the UK. READ MORE
