Protestors chant ‘Yemen Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around’ as 200,000 march through London

More than 200,000 Pro-Palestinian protesters have started marching through London for the first major demonstration of 2024 — as the Metropolitan Police confirmed it had moved in to make six arrests.

Around 1,700 police officers from the Met and other UK forces have been mobilised amid fears the escalating tension in Yemen will bring more activists to the streets of the capital.

Iran-backed Houthi rebels, whose slogan includes ‘death to Israel’ and ‘curse the Jews’, have targeted commercial ships passing through the Red Sea in a show of solidarity with Palestine.

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Rail thin, scared to speak, but free: my daughter’s life after Hamas hostage ordeal

When his nine-year-old daughter Emily first came back home after nearly two months in Hamas captivity, Thomas Hand didn’t let her out of his sight. At night, he would sit up watching her sleep. Whenever she frowned, he’d wake her, worried she was having a nightmare.

The rare times that Emily went out with her two grown-up siblings, he’d put an electronic tracker in her pocket, so that he could follow her on his phone. Each day, he marvelled that she was really there, thin and exhausted, with matted hair and lice, rescued from an ordeal that defies comprehension.

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Police say a man waved a terror group’s flag. Here’s why it may be difficult to prosecute as a hate crime

The charge of public incitement of hatred against a Toronto man alleged to have held up what police called a “terrorist” flag during a demonstration last weekend could be difficult to prosecute and highlights the challenges of defining hate crimes, some experts say.

Prosecution of the man police allege waved a flag associated with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) while marching through the city’s downtown last Sunday will “be a real uphill battle,” said Barbara Perry, director for the Centre on Hate, Bias and Extremism at Ontario Tech University.

Barbara Perry is the twit who made up the Myth of Canada’s 5 million gazillion white supremacist groups, she works with the CAHN the Clown Car of anti-racism.

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GOLDSTEIN: The shameless hypocrisy of putting world’s only Jewish state on trial for genocide

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At the International Court of Justice in the Hague, Israel is on trial for genocide and, once again, is being judged by standards expected of no other country on earth.

The ICJ, in its 78-year history since its founding by the United Nations in 1945, has never issued a direct finding of genocide against any other country.

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LILLEY: Trudeau’s cowardly compromise on South Africa accusing Israel of genocide

The Trudeau government’s ongoing craven attempts to play both sides in the Israel-Hamas war truly knows no end.

After Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made vague comments early Friday that would seem to suggest Canada opposed South Africa’s charge of genocide, the full statement came out later in the day.

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Peter Menzies: Thanks to Freedom of Expression, Protesters’ True Colours Are Revealed

There are a lot of us who want people in the Islamist-leftist coalitions parading through our cities to be shut up, but where oh where would we be without their freedom of expression?

Without it, the population at large might still be thinking kindly of certain union leaders, MPPs, MLAs, mayors, city councillors, human rights commissioners, journalists, theatre companies, activists, academics, medical doctors, law students, and MPs. Canadians might still be thinking of them—as they have worked so hard to be portrayed—as people dedicated to making the world a happier, more prosperous place in which to live.

I admit I prefer when my enemies tell me exactly who they are.

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Rahim Mohamed: Trudeau allergic to supporting Israel without a thousand caveats

The Liberal caucus found itself, once again, a house divided as the United Nations’ top court met this week to hear arguments put forth by South Africa that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.

As the first day of hearings at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) convened on Thursday, two Liberal MPs, Iqra Khalid and Omar Alghabra, released separate statements on X in support of South Africa’s submission against Israel.

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Arrest protesters if they shout ‘jihad’ at London march, ministers told

Pro-Palestinian marchers chanting “jihad” at a protest on Saturday should be arrested, the government’s independent adviser on political violence and disruption has said.

Lord Walney added that protest organisers should contribute to the spiralling costs of policing as up to 200,000 people are anticipated in London for the first big demonstration of the year.

Police sources anticipate that the military action in Yemen will add to the crowds expected at the protest and that about 1,700 officers will be on the streets, some brought in from outside Scotland Yard.

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Submarines, jets and laser-guided bombs – how precision strikes on the Houthis unfolded

Four Royal Air Force Typhoon jets slipped into Yemen’s airspace in the early hours of Friday morning, loaded with 230kg Paveway IV precision-guided bombs intended to pound rebel positions.

With a range of just 16 miles, the bombs were likely carried inland and then launched as part of a night-time raid responding to Houthi attacks on the Royal Navy in the Red Sea.

Explosions soon lit up the sky as an airbase, military camp and the Houthi’s Al-Masirah television station were targeted before the warplanes banked away to return to base, videos on the ground in Yemen show.

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San Francisco: Hamas supporters make PIG NOISES and point pretend horns at Jewish man whose relatives were murdered Oct 7 as he tells council meeting he and his family no longer feel safe in the city

A Jewish man who lost family in the October 7 attacks was jeered at by protestors who made pig noises and pretend horns while at a San Francisco council meeting.

The incident occurred on January 8 at a San Francisco Board of Supervisors hearing scheduled the day before a vote on a resolution to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

In a moving speech to the Board the man described how his first cousins were killed at Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7.

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