Britain's civilisational emergency

I spoke about this broader crisis on my recent trip to America

Once again, a picture speaks louder than words.

The picture above was taken at Saturday’s pro-terrorism demonstration in London, which unleashed frenzied attacks across the capital upon Jews and others who support Israel’s defence against genocide, as well as those who wished to commemorate those who gave their lives to defend Britain in two world wars. The picture is a vignette of Britain’s tragic surrender of civilisation to barbarism. Two Metropolitan police officers, smiling benignly, pose for a selfie with a child dressed as a Palestinian terrorist.

The corruption of Britain embraces the corruption of innocence and a symbol of genocidal Jew-hatred.

At the same time, wrote Allison Pearson in the Telegraph, when a group of Israel supporters at that demonstration asked a couple of officers to pose with their group, the police turned this offer down.

After Saturday’s shocking events, how can anyone possibly say the Home Secretary Suella Braverman was wrong to call these demonstrations “hate marches” which should not be allowed to take place?

The following are links to other vignettes you may have missed because, while a full-scale civilisational emergency has been erupting in London, the mainstream media has been concentrating instead on demonising Israel with Hamas propaganda.

Here, a Muslim mob invade a Pret a Manger cafe and demand that any Israel donors there must leave;

Here, a protester telling the truth about Hamas is assaulted — reportedly with a knife — by Hamas supporters;

Here, poppy sellers at Victoria station are forced to move;

Here, a woman at Victoria station is left in tears after she and her husband are confronted by a demonstrator over wearing poppy lapel pins;

Here, red paint has been thrown at a London house whose mezuzah on the front door identifies its occupants as Jews;

Here, a young woman aggressively asks “Are you a Jew” on a London bus;

Here, demonstrators shout “Death to all Jews” at Victoria station;

Here, abuse is screamed outside a synagogue on the Jewish Sabbath, November 11;

Here, an Israel government spokesman pushes back effectively (when he can get a word in ) against a BBC interviewer smouldering with contempt, hostility and malevolent bias against Israel.

And although this is from Gaza itself, here is a Gazan civilian fleeing down an IDF-provided humanitarian corridor to the south telling a truth that the BBC and other Hamas apologists are so desperately trying to deny:

The Arabs betrayed us, the Jews are kind to us.

Finally, while I wrote a post here based on a compilation of the talks I gave on my trip to America last month, you can watch the one I gave to the David Horowitz Restoration Weekend in New Orleans on “The collapse of conservatism and the crisis of the west,” along with Q&A at the end, by clicking here.

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How Britain appeased Islamic extremism

As British and other western countries are convulsed by massive, Muslim-dominated demonstrations exulting at the barbaric murder of 1400 Israelis on October 7, and as these mobs call for the destruction of Israel and the further murder of Jews, Muslim preachers in Britain’s mosques have been additionally stoking the fires of hatred against Israel and the Jewish people.

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