Jonathan Sacerdoti

It's unthinkable what happened on that day.

And Israel's reaction to it, in my opinion, is justifiable and understandable.

But in their opinion, it isn't.

And that's what they're protesting about.

It gets way more complex than that because those marches have also...

been the cause of great deal of concern among many Jewish people and many non-Jewish people I know.

I mean, I know many non-Jews who didn't want to go anywhere near those marches when they were taking place in central London, for example.

They would avoid those areas on march days because they found the marches disruptive, violent, intimidating.

For Jews, it was all that and more.

And in certain cases, it seemed like they were deliberately intended to be that way.

They would go past synagogues.

They were almost always held on Saturdays, which is the Jewish Sabbath.

So like people might go to church on a Sunday, Jews go to synagogue on a Saturday morning.

And if you come out of your synagogue and you're confronted with that and you have to get past it or across it or around it to get home,

It makes life very difficult.

Now, more religious, more observant Jews don't drive on Saturdays on the Sabbath.

They walk only.

So they literally have to walk through it or around it.

I know people who had that problem in confronting those marches and stopped going to the synagogues in question that were along the route.

As far as I'm aware, the recent court case where