Il segretario di casa chiama le proteste di Gaza a scia dell’attacco di Manchester “Un-British”
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/oct/03/home-secretary-shabana-mahmood-says-pro-palestine-protests-in-wake-of-manchester-attack-are-un-british
di corbynista2029
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I don’t know about “un-British”. Tone deaf and self-defeating, maybe.
The protests yesterday have been planned for a long time, they’re meant to coincide with the kidnapping of British citizens and other activists on the flotilla that is trying to deliver aid to Gaza. There is nothing un-British about exercising our freedom of speech to protect British citizens that are carrying out actions to stop a genocide. If anything, policing our own freedom of speech regarding Israel when an antisemitic attack has happened _is conflating the two issues together_.
[As Zack Polanski, a Jewish man from Manchester, has clearly articulated, the Home Secretary’s comments are deeply irresponsible](https://news.sky.com/video/home-secretarys-comments-irresponsible-says-green-party-leader-13443383)
Not a fan of any politician being the arbiter of “Britishness”
Regardless of where you land on the protest going ahead, I think it’s dangerous territory to be deeming when it is acceptable to protest.
It would probably be easier to take their ‘reform are racist’ message seriously if Labour didn’t keep stealing their press releases.
“Speaking about pro-Palestinian protests that went ahead on Thursday, she added, however: “I was very disappointed to see those protests going ahead last night. I think that behaviour is is fundamentally un-British. I think it is dishonourable. I would have wanted those individuals to just take a step back.”
“The issues that are driving those protests have been going on for some time. They don’t look like they are going to come to an end any time soon. They could have given a community that has suffered just a day or two to process what has happened,” added Mahmood.
I don’t really get this part. The protests are about the situation in Palestine, and the intervention of Israel. It isn’t for or against British Jews. I think she is in danger here of conflating British Jews with the state of Israel, which is probably unhelpful, and in fact fits a lot of definitions of antisemitism.
Fine to say maybe the timing of ANY large protests in the local area would be bad, but singling out pro Palestine-protests that were happening in various cities and were planned ahead of time doesn’t really make sense unless you are saying that this particular cause is somehow antisemitic.
Which many of the Jews participating in those protests would take issue with, I am sure…
Disagree with her to be honest. It’s not like they are spontaneous protests as a result of yesterday’s attacks. The optics of the protests at this time are clearly bad in practice though whatever the actual merits of the cause in isolation. The protestors probably should pause for a bit for the sake of their cause, not because Mahmood told them too.
Mahmood is shaping up to be a terrible Home Secretary.
There is a genocide going on in Gaza right now. People have the right to protest that. What happened in Manchester was heartbreaking and horrific but protesting against a genocide is not disrespecting the victims at all.
Not as un-British as the actions of the “British Citizen of Syrian descent” as every single news outlet insists on calling him.
“I don’t think nows the right time to protest” would have been the most diplomatic approach.
Then again it’s keir and he seems like he’s trying to lose voters, so just attack the side who likely voted for your party.
I don’t understand. The Gaza protests are directed against the state of Israel not against Jewish people.
I wonder if this person has been funded by the LFI lobby?
1. It was 3 miles away. It would be different if they did it outside the synagogue.
2. It was not linked to the attacks and nor did they share the same message. One was terrorist looking to kill, one was a protest to end a genocide.
3. Most people I know find attacks on innocent disgusting regardless of who they are. You can’t use one misfortune to silence another one.
I find it disgusting that our rights are continually being eroded or demonised.
I hate terrorism in all its forms, grew up seeing the IRA with their stupid balaclava press conferences on TV and dial in London bomb threats, later the various Islamic related bombings/attacks. I graduated on 7/7 and remember all the ones since then.
However there is a massive difference between lone wolf attacks that kills a handful of and the systematic destruction of an entire people that has death counts with lots of zeros on the end.
Whilst there’s overspill and finger pointing both ways, it’s better if these things were kept as separate as possible.
Those protests are fine. They’re anti Israel, not anti semitic.
Israel really using their soft power to make themselves look “justified” in the upcoming full on ethnic cleansing.
Im with Kyle’s mum in south park on this, fuck you Netanyahu.
Plenty Jewish people I know hate Israel.
Remember when yitzhak Rabin was assassinated for trying to make peace because extremist zionists couldn’t tolerate the idea of peace. They killed their own leader because he dared try to make a peace deal.
> Shabana Mahmood also said she would appeal to anyone thinking of going to one to pause and think how they would feel if a loved one was murdered on the holiest day of the year in their faith.
I’d want my loved ones to carry on if it’s something I believed in quite frankly. These aren’t random protests out of the blue.
I really don’t get the government’s communication strategy at all. Like, are they just winging it themselves or something? They need to just pick a portion of the electorate and target them, because this current method of trying to please everyone is plainly just pissing everyone off.
It’s like they’re doing polls of a representative sample of the entire population and trying to be target the issues that top the list, but it misses the fact that fundamentally, large swathes of the country didn’t vote for them and never, ever will. What they should actually be doing is working out who voted for them last time, and blasting the rhetoric and policies that are popular with *them*. NHS and social care reform, pro-Palestine sentiment, cost of living reduction, evidence-based immigration policy, an end to demonisation of disabled people etc.
Oh right but those anti-immigration protests after a Sikh woman was raped and two elderly taxi drivers attacked are very British. TwO tIeR
Guess I’m not fucking British then. Saoirse don Phalaistín!
Easy to see her thought process here if she views Jews and Israel as interchangeable…
i don’t think the brutal and cowardly murder of two innocent people should stop the protest over the brutal and cowardly murder of 60,000 innocent people.
Dangerous road to go down especially when Britain’s fingerprints are all over the state of the Middle East.
Criticism of Israel is not Anti-semitic.
She said that things in the Middle East aren’t about the U.K. so why would a protest about something happening in the Middle East, the ongoing Israeli genocide, not go ahead after something that happened in the U.K? It’s perfectly possible to condemn both the attack on the synagogue and also the ongoing war crimes in Gaza, you do not have to condone one to condemn the other, and no, it is not antisemitic to say so.
Protesting *against* Genocide is Un-British!
– The British Government.