You can't have an antisemitism march with a bunch of racists marching.

The antisemitism march this weekend was marked by the likes of Tommy Robinson taking part, so how was it anti racist?
Right, so this weekend saw another march in London, but this time it wasn’t a pro-Palestinian one, it was supposedly a march against antisemitism, definitely couldn’t disagree with that sentiment in and of itself, but the sea of Israeli flags made this feel less about antisemitism and more about pushing back against the marches we’ve previously witnessed up and down the country for Palestine and for Gaza and more about celebrating Israel instead. This was a show of people taking a side in what is happening in the Middle East, not so much a stance against racism and when one of the key figures who turned up was a certain Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, preferring to be known as Tommy Robinson, the former leader of the English Defence League masquerading as a journalist, it pretty much rubber stamps this as not being an anti racist event, not an antisemitism march, this was a pro-Zionist exercise, a who’s who of siding with the oppressors and occupiers.
Right, so I’m all for supporting the fight against antisemitism, the real thing, the genuine article I’d hope we all were, so long as all other forms of racism are treated as equally disgusting and called out wherever they are found, but of course we know this isn’t the case, we know antisemitism has been weaponised to death, this has harmed the fight against the real thing and has led to other forms of racism, notably Islamophobia being treated as somehow less important. So a march against antisemitism isn’t something that ought to be argued against, unless it ends up once more as an exercise in weaponizing the issue and in my opinion, that is exactly what we saw in London this weekend gone, whether that had been the original intention or not. If it was not, then unfortunately bad faith actors turned into one, if it was, shame on you all. Given the organisers were the discredited Campaign Against Antisemitism, I’m firmly of the opinion it was the latter, especially when you consider Gideon Falter, the CEO of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, is a board member of the Jewish National Fund, which raises money to help settlers illegally settle in the Palestinian Occupied Territories. It is also behind the rancid claim that the pro-Palestine marches turned Labour into a no-go area for Jews. Funny that, I could have sworn there were loads of them at those marches, perhaps they were the wrong kind though?
When you go onto social media and you look at the images, it is a sea of Israeli flags and you can argue that their presence is just a nod to the Jewish faith via the Jewish state, but if you really want to stand up for human rights and against racism, then flying the flag of an occupying state, embroiled in genocide of Gazan people right now, majority Muslim, but not exclusively so, might not be the best way of standing against antisemitism right now. In fact there were so many Israeli flags it could not be read as much more than a pro-zionist march, whether that was the feeling of everyone taking part or not.

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