kreuzberger wrote: ↑Sat Nov 11, 2023 4:16 pm
16:00 GMT and BBC News are reporting that "most arrests have been of counter-protesters". No other outlet that I can see is suggesting that there have been any arrests at the march.
Are they just making shit up again?
I deliberately time-stamped this post because, at that point and despite being fully connected to the rolling news, I had seen no hint of trouble on the main Hate March - nothing on Sky News, nothing on TwiXter, no statements from the Met.
Any desperate bothsidesery didn't start until mid-evening and until Sunak released his communiqué doing just that.
Now that the dust has settled, it is still a challenge to find any clearly untoward behaviour on the Hate March; a coconut placard, a slick but clumsy graphic drawing comparisons between Netanyahu's actions with those of the Nazi Germany, and a couple of headbands with questionable Arabic content which, as far as I can see, is no better or worse than having excerpts from the Lord's Prayer. Instances of rampant ant-Semitism on OurStreets
® are curiously nowhere to be seen.
It could be that BBC News has Investigative Clairvoyants on the payroll now. Aye, that'll be it.