Pro-Palestine protesters planned a demonstration in London as the October 7 attacks in Israel unfolded, it has emerged.
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) told the Metropolitan Police at 12.50pm on the day of the terror attack that they were planning a protest.
A freedom of information request revealed that a PSC organiser told police on October 7 that demonstrators planned to march through the city on October 14.
News that Hamas terrorists had launched an attack on Israeli civilians had emerged that morning.
The PSC told the Met Police at 12.50pm on the day of the terror attack that they were planning a protest
PABy midday, videos on social media were showing members of Hamas taking people hostage, and the death toll of murdered civilians was rising.
Around 1,200 Israelis were killed, with the attack continuing until October 9 when the IDF took back control of the infiltrated villages.
A spokesman for the Met Police said: “The Met was contacted on Saturday Oct 7 at approximately 12.50pm via telephone call and informed of the intention to protest, the Met committed this to our systems on the same day and are satisfied being contacted by telephone was a sufficient means in which to notify the MPS as the event was taking place seven days after notification.”
Dave Rich, head of policy at the Community Security Trust, a British charity that provides safety to the Jewish community, was appalled by the move.
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“It’s hard to comprehend that while Jews around the world watched with horror as a pogrom took place in Israel on Oct 7, the ghouls at PSC saw the exact same images and thought ‘let’s have an anti-Israel demo’,” he said.
The PSC has defended their actions, claiming that Israel’s military response to the attack was already happening at the time.
At 9.35am, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu declared via X that the country was at war, however a formal declaration wasn’t made until October 8.
On October 9, defence minister Yoav Gallant ordered a “complete siege” on the strip.
Around 1,200 Israelis were killed, with the attack continuing until October 9 when the IDF took back control of the infiltrated villages
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Speaking to The Telegraph, a PSC spokesman said: “[By that morning] it was already clear that the Israeli attacks on Gaza would be of an indiscriminate violence we had not witnessed before, and that 2.3 million people in Gaza, more than 50 per cent of them children, were at severe risk.”
“It is entirely appropriate therefore that PSC would call for a protest that would seek an immediate ceasefire and call for the root causes of Israeli occupation and apartheid to be addressed.”
The spokesman added that those seeking to “demonise” the protesters are trying to “deflect attention from the crimes against humanity that Israel has committed”.
“We shall not be deflected by their apologism for genocide.”
The march went ahead on October 14, with over 30,000 people in attendance.
Videos captured antisemitic slogans at the protest, with demonstrators shouting in Arabic: “Oh Jews, the army of Mohammed is returning”.
Then PM Rishi Sunak condemned the chanting, saying: “Not in our country. Not in this century.”
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