Jonathan Sacerdoti
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Two of the organisers, one from the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, I think were found guilty of breaking some police conditions.
What they'd broken was the police saying, you can't go near this synagogue that's near the BBC for your march.
Not that it was cancelled, but you can't go near that synagogue at that time on the Saturday.
And they did.
So again, I ask, just as I did with the Intifada question, if you know these things are going to cause fear and inconvenience for Jews, why would you do them?
Why wouldn't you express your dissatisfaction with Israel's military policy in a different way that didn't effectively target or at least...
terrify, unintentionally, if we give them the benefit of the doubt, Jewish people at prayer on Saturday in their synagogues.
Jewish Britons, that's what's worth saying as well.
We're Brits.
Like everyone else in this country, we have a right to live our lives, not to get in each other's way, but to coexist.
We don't all have to agree.
And so I would say that those marches, in their regularity, in their furiosity, and in their choice of route sometimes, were deliberately provocative, intimidating, bullying, inconveniencing of...
anyone who wasn't on them or didn't agree with them, but particularly for Jews.
And then I'd add also that on many of those marches, there was an open display of things which should be worrying to anyone in this country.
So support for terrorism.
There were people with banners, placards, T-shirts, stickers, which showed in various ways support for terrorism.
In the early ones,
there were some people found wearing stickers with pictures of hang gliders on them, people with hang gliders or parachutes.
What's that signify?
What it signified is that on October the 7th, among the methods of invasion, there were people who literally used parachutes and hang gliders to get from the Gaza Strip into Israel in order to carry out terrorism and killings.