When Far-Left British Ninnies Join Hands with Far-Right Muslims

A report, both amusing and horrifying, on the crowd that gathered in Trafalgar Square to demand an end to the government’s banning of the violent anti-Israel group Palestine Action can be found here: “Supporters of Palestine Action: Who backs the UK’s proscribed anti-Israel organization?,” by Jonathan Spyer, Jerusalem Post, October 10, 2025:

Supporters of the banned British “direct action network” Palestine Action held a demonstration in central London’s Trafalgar Square over the weekend. Around 1,000 people participated. Police arrested 490 participants, who carried placards declaring their support for the illegal group. In London for a few days, I went down to take a look at the gathering.

The Palestine Action demonstration took place two days after the terrorist attack at the Heaton Park synagogue in Manchester, on the day of Yom Kippur, in which two people lost their lives. The organizers of the gathering had been asked to consider postponing their event, out of respect for those from the Jewish community grieving their dead. They declined to do so.

Stewards at Trafalgar Square, however, periodically reminded participants that the day was supposed to include an element of “reflection,” and hence they would prefer that chanting not take place. This did little to discourage participants, and loud chanting of ‘From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ and other slogans advocating the destruction of Israel were a constant accompaniment to the events at the square.

It is worth recalling for a moment what Palestine Action is, and why it was proscribed. The organization emerged in mid-2020. Its purpose, in its own words, is to use “disruptive tactics” against “weapons factories that are operating on British soil and are complicit in the current genocide in Gaza, but also in the longer-term kind of oppression of the Palestinian people.”

Its first notable action was a break-in to the headquarters of Elbit Systems in London. The Elbit offices were spray-painted, in a tactic that would become the movement’s trademark.

The emergence of Palestine Action was an early sign that something was brewing in that space where the Western far Left meets political Islam. From within this spectrum, Palestine Action heralded a new pattern, which has now become plainly apparent. In the last surge of Islamist terrorism a quarter century ago, the violence came from the Islamist circles only, with their Western far-left supporters acting only as cheerleaders and occasional facilitators. This time around, it’s different. This time, the white Western far Left is generating violence of its own, to match that of its Islamist allies.

The act that led to the banning of Palestine Action took place on June 23, 2025. On that date, five Palestine Action activists gained entry to RAF Brize Norton, one of the main active bases of Britain’s air force. Planes take off from Brize Norton for RAF Akrotiri on Cyprus, from where the UK conducts its various Middle Eastern air operations.

The activists located and sought to destroy a number of combat aircraft. Red paint was sprayed into the turbine of one of the planes, damaging it beyond repair. The attacks were reckoned to have cost the British Defense Ministry around $40 million.

Who will be made to pay? Can those who destroyed the combat aircraft worth $40 million be rounded up and arrested, and if convicted of criminal trespass and vandalism, not only be sentenced to prison but made to pay fines that will bankrupt the lot? And perhaps the group Palestine Action has some money in its name that can be seized by the government, in part payment for the destruction its members wrought at Brize Norton.

In a statement issued at the time, Palestine Action said that “Britain continues to send military cargo, and fly spy planes over Gaza and refuel US/Israeli jets. By decommissioning two military planes, we’ve broken the chains of oppression.”…

The “chain of oppression”? Does that “chain of oppression” include the $5.4 billion that the U.S.has given to the Palestinian Arabs since 1994? Does that “chain of oppression” include the 200 million meals that the Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation has delivered to Gazans since May 2025? And Palestine Action should know that the British do not refuel either US or Israeli jets; both countries do their own refueling.

Many of the leftist demonstrators, white and mostly older, called it a day in the afternoon, and replacing them was a younger crowd of Muslims who were more violent than the British protesters, and less willing to heed requests to tone things down by not making violent speeches or chanting clearly genocidal phrases, such as “Globalize the Intifada” and “Death, death to the IDF,” and even “Khaybar, Khaybar, ya yahud! Jaish Muhammad soufa yaʿoud,” which means “Jews of Khaybar, the army of Muhammad will return” (and kill you all).

It’s notable that the Islamists included representatives of both Shia, pro-Iranian groups and Sunni and Salafi elements. The differences between them were not disguised….

The Shi’a and Sunni may hate each other, but they both hate the Infidels far more, so they could get along in that crowd in Trafalgar Square, burying their differences for the greater good of calling for the murdering of Jews and destroying their state. In the same way, Shi’a Iran had no qualms about supporting the Sunnis of Hamas, or before them, the arch-Sunnis of Al Qaeda.

On one occasion a man with a broad Glasgow accent, wearing a shirt depicting the Star of David with a swastika within it, sought to loudly resist arrest and was bundled away by the police….

A swastika inside a Star of David? What an elegant way for this Glaswegian to charge Israeli soldiers of being “the new Nazis.”

A group of elderly Quaker women sang a long call-and-response routine, while close by a group of bearded Islamists unfurled a banner reading “Stand firm for justice, as witnesses for Allah – Quran 4:35.”

Too bad those bearded Islamists didn’t unfurl a different banner, one proclaiming that non-Muslims are “the most vile of created beings” (Qur’an 98:6). Someone should really produce thousands of such banners, to be unfurled at every pro-Hamas and anti-Israel demonstration. It will flutter the antisemitic dovecotes. What can the Muslims say to explain away that passage in the Holy Qur’an?

“Just read the Quran, brother, read it – from cover to cover. And then come back and talk” – an Islamist activist to a young leftist.

“And they spout all these lies about beheaded babies. As if anyone believes that” – a young white leftist woman to her friend.

Yes, of course. No babies were beheaded by Hamas on October 7, 2023. Nor were any girls raped, or any women have their breasts sliced off while they were being raped. Nor did any men have their genitalia sliced off or their eyes gouged out. No families were tied together with wire and burned to death. All of that has been a fabrication by the Mossad, that even made fake photos, expertly doctored, of those nonexistent “atrocities” we are supposed to believe took place. Nothing is too cruel for those Israelis.

“The resistance axis, from Sanaa to the Dahiya, the resistance axis against racism” – a young man of South Asian appearance, standing next to a banner bearing the visage of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

One more time: what “race” is Islam?

“You’re here, and you’re standing next to that picture” – an older Middle Eastern-looking man, in response, pointing to the picture of Khamenei. “That’s a picture of a murderer.”

That “older Middle Eastern-looking man” was either an Iranian dissident in exile, or someone from the Sunni oil states — most likely, Saudi Arabia or the UAE — both of whom have good reason to hate Ayatollah Khamenei.

A masked young man, white, British, wearing black, to his female friend: “And they bring European trees in, that don’t fit the landscape, that go up like paper. And the Ashkenazis aren’t genetically from there.”…

Yes, those terrible Israelis plant trees in Judea and Samaria, but those trees don’t belong, the young man assures his female friend. Those trees are just as foreign, just as out of place, as the people who plant them, the Ashkenazis who are not really Jews at all, but people from Central Asia who centuries ago converted to Judaism. They have no claim on what they call the Land of Islam. Just look at their genes: these are people whose ancestors lived not in the Middle East, but a thousand miles away. They are interlopers, land stealers, colonial-settlers.

I recalled the late Hassan Nasrallah’s remarks on the Jews: “If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli.” And a Jewish woman close by: “We can be Jews anywhere in the world. We don’t need a Jewish state.” You may find you do, I thought.

“We can be Jews anywhere in the world” is this Jewish leftist’s fond belief. She appears not to have noticed the epidemic of antisemitism that has been sweeping across our giddy globe. Those Jews murdered a few weeks ago couldn’t even be Jews in Manchester. How does she think Jews in France, in the Netherlands, in Spain are faring?

Jonathan Spyer managed to listen to all this so that you and I didn’t have to. I know I could not have simply listened without expression as he managed to do. I would have discharged both barrels — of words, not bullets — and stormed out. Mankind can only stand so much nonsense and lies. Far-left non-Muslims and far-right Muslims are united in their hatred of Jews and the Jewish state. But if the Muslims ever take over Europe, the far-left Europeans, though they have been the Muslims’ stout defenders and allies, will not be spared. They too are “the most vile of created beings” even if they have a well-thumbed copy of Das Kapital at home. They may even be among the first to go, like the Iranian Communists. After the Shah fell, the entire leadership of the Tudeh Party who had living in the Soviet Union, returned to Iran by plane, only to be mowed down by Ayatollah Khomeini’s men right on the tarmac. Muslims will never forget what Muhammad told them in a famous hadith: not “workers of the world unite,” but rather, “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.”