I was in London last Saturday as two rival marches took to the streets. The pro-Arab ‘Nakba’ march competed for media and political attention with ‘Unite The Kingdom’ and its support for our Christian heritage. The organisers of the former actually declared it a ‘March for Palestine – United against Tommy Robinson & the far right.’ The Unite the Kingdom people were unconcerned with the Nakba march, except as a symptom of the failure of multiculturalism. Their target was the UK’s political elite.
The Nakba March
Deciding to walk from Paddington Station to Parliament Square, by the grace of God I came across the antisemitic ‘Nakba’ gathering in Exhibition Road, London SW7, before it set off via Marble Arch for Pall Mall. Placards, some of which bore the imprint of the far-left Socialist Workers Party or its subsidiary ‘Stand up to Racism’, said ‘Smash the Far Right’, ‘Oppose Tommy Robinson – Stop Fascists & the Far Right’, ‘Women Against the Far Right – Reject Racism – Refugees are not to blame,’ ‘STOP Islamophobia, STOP the Far Right’, with Tommy Robinson’s face in ‘STOP’ where the ‘O’ should be,’ and ‘Unite Against the Far Right & Reform’.
So much for the hatred of opponents found in routine leftism. The pro-Muslim ingredient had in addition: ‘Freedom for Palestine’, ‘End the Siege’, and inevitably,‘From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be Free – Back the Resistance’.
Plainly they do not mean the Holy Land should be free of Islam, Hamas or the equally-corrupt ‘Palestinian Authority’. They mean the whole land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea should be purged of Jews.
The ‘Nakba’ 78
‘Nakba’ is Arabic for ‘Catastrophe’ and this is the 78th year since it is said to have happened in 1948. In this context, the ‘Palestine Solidarity Campaign’ explains it was the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Arabs (or ‘Palestinians’). They say: ‘Between 1947-1949, Zionist militias instigated a campaign of ethnic cleansing across historic Palestine’. Well, firstly, it was across historic Israel, given to the descendants of Jacob by God himself. To take just one verse out of dozens referring to God’s promise of ‘The Promised Land’:
Deut 11:31 For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
So Israel are not ‘occupiers’, for the land was given them by God himself.
The 1948 war
Secondly, what the Palestine Solidarity Campaign forget to tell you is why the displacement happened. A civil war began in 1947 just before the British Mandate for the Holy Land was due to expire. Arab militias and mobs attacked Jewish areas as a reaction to a UN Partition Plan. The British withdrew, and Zionist forces launched a counter-offensive in April 1948, conquering and depopulating town and villages.
Israel Declared Independence on 14th May 1948 as the Mandate expired. The following morning, Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon launched an invasion into the Holy Land, taking control of Arab areas and attacking Israeli forces and settlements. After 10 months of fighting, the Israelis were victorious and regained the land. Soon after, Transjordan annexed East Jerusalem and what became known as the West Bank. Israel would not recapture Judea and Samaria (the ‘West Bank’) until 1967.
Expulsions happen in war, but we are never told that a similar number of Jews fled from or were expelled by the surrounding Arab states in the three years following the war. Some quarter of a million relocated in Israel.
Unite the Kingdom
It is a good walk from Knightsbridge to Parliament Square, but I was greeted by a sea of flags, of which the Union flag, St George’s Cross and the sun and lion of Persia (or Iran) were the most prominent. The Nakba crowd included apologists for the Ayatollahs currently in control of Iran. In contrast, Iranian ex-pats, genuine refugees from terror and supporters of the Shah in exile were welcomed by Tommy Robinson’s supporters.
I felt a spirit of antisemitism and antichrist at the Nakba march. There was nothing like that in Parliament Square last Saturday. They were overwhelmingly a working-class gathering, determined but good-natured, with a large contingent of men who, if two other football teams had made it, might have been found supporting them at Wembley for that afternoon’s FA Cup Final.
Instead, they brought their knack of inventing chants along to the rally, exploiting any lull in proceedings by singing ‘Keir Starmer is a w—–.’ Journalist Will Jones, writing in Daily Sceptic, reported Jonathan Sacerdoti’s comments in the Spectator. I can vouch for the accuracy of this excerpt:
‘Perhaps the strangest thing about the Unite the Kingdom rally was just how unremarkable it felt. There were no mass chants calling for the death of particular groups, no calls for the eradication of foreign countries and no flags of terrorist groups or tyrannical theocracies waved in the crowd. Nobody cited scripture to urge the slaughter of another people, nobody waved terrorist symbols and nobody I saw during the entire day covered their face.’
Christian evangelism
Last year, in prison, Tommy Robinson accepted the Lord Jesus Christ. There had been a Christian atmosphere at the Unite the Kingdom rally last year. It isn’t hard to find when our flags have the cross of Christ on them.
This year, the Christian message was even more explicit, with evangelism from Pastor Rikki Doolan, Tommy himself and a young black woman who gave an impassioned speech. The crowd did not object, but as with anywhere today, I sensed it will take a mighty move of the Holy Spirit before the Christian faith becomes a reality in every heart present. For what lies ahead, they will need the power of the Spirit, that’s for sure. The Bible says:
Psa 119:126 It is time for thee, LORD, to work: for they have made void thy law.
We should pray that work of the Lord includes him raising up able, humble, honest, truthful men of God to lead us, and telling us what we need to do to bring them into power in this land.
It is very clear the established church does not understand ‘Unite the Kingdom’ at all, or possibly ascension theology, where Jesus really is King of kings, despite Ascension Day itself falling two days before the rally. I have argued before that Ascension is ‘The Feast the Church forgot’. Church Times reported both the Bishop of Edmonton, Dr Anderson Jeremiah, and ultra-liberal Baptist minister Sally Mann setting up ‘Listening Tables’ near the rally, in order to ‘listen and to hear their pain’ and preach ‘a way of love and welcome, not division and fear’. The Trojans welcomed the gift of a horse from the Greeks in mythology, as I recall.
Which march did Keir Starmer denounce?
Now, out of the two marches, the one celebrating Britain’s Christian heritage, the other bonding communists and Islamists together over murderous antisemitism, which one do you imagine Keir Starmer supported?
Which one was it that Keir Starmer specifically attacked in a social media video, calling its organizers ‘convicted thugs and racists, peddling hatred and division, plain and simple’?
It was ‘Unite the Kingdom’, of course. Sir Keir knows that Reform are breathing down the Labour neck, no less than Makerfield of by-election fame. But personally, he is more concerned about what Labour MPs think of him.
Hence his appeal to the leftist heart rather than to the betrayed working class, speaking of United the Kingdom people like this: ‘Their goal is to convince people that Britain’s problems are caused by those living alongside them but that is not the Britain that I know,’ Starmer said. Well, my impression is that the ‘Uniters’, and millions like them, don’t need much convincing to realise that Britain’s problems have been caused by the elite, by people like him.
Separate ghettos
As for his ‘those living alongside them’ jibe, he needs to spend more time venturing out in the United Kingdom rather than jetting off to mix with his WEF friends. In the Northern cities he will find Muslims, singled out by Unite the Kingdom speakers, do not actually ‘live alongside’ British people. They have formed their own ghettos, where English, if spoken at all, is very much a second language.
Meanwhile, in somewhere like Crowborough, or around the Bell Hotel in Epping, he will indeed discover small boat migrants living ‘alongside’ residents, who are now terrified of crime including sexual attacks on their women and girls.
In Daily Sceptic, Will Jones ventured that Keir Starmer ‘Condemned the Wrong Rally’. He did, in the courts of heaven, but if his target audience was his own MPs, he maybe thought it was worth alienating working-class Britons if he clings onto his office of Prime Minster for just a little longer.
Attention from overseas
The government blocked 11 foreign nationals described by Keir Starmer as “far-right agitators” from entering the UK ahead of the march.
From the United States, J D Vance supported the Tommy Robinson rally. ITV News reported the US Vice-President saying it is “OK to defend your culture”. The Republican said it was reasonable for people ‘to want to control who comes into their country’ and urged them to ‘keep on going’.
Last year, on Fox News’ Ingraham Angle, Vice-President Vance remarked that ‘Europe is at risk of engaging in civilizational suicide.’ ‘They are unable or unwilling to control their borders…You see them starting to limit the free speech of their own citizens,’ Vance noted. Hungarians were pleased he highlighted Hungary as one of the few bright spots on the continent—refusing to follow Western European countries down a destructive path.
The number of those attending the United Kingdom rally was estimated by the police to be about 60,000. It could have been more, but according to the Guardian, ‘campaign group Hope Not Hate nevertheless said the scale of Robinson’s movement remained “deeply worrying”.’ The elite, the Islamo-left and the multiculturalists should be worried that their time is coming to an end. All the same, they would be better off repenting and following the incarnate, crucified, risen, ascended, glorified Lord Jesus, the King of kings and great Sovereign over our land, to whom even king Charles himself and all his ministers must kneel.
Isa 45:23 I have sworn by myself, the word is gone out of my mouth in righteousness, and shall not return, That unto me every knee shall bow, every tongue shall swear.
Rom 14:11 For it is written, As I live, saith the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.
Php 2:10 That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;
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Good article Stephen. Can I add regarding the Nabka, that most of the Arabs displaced from their homes were actually told to leave by the Arab leadership, so that they could annihilate all the Jews, and were then supposed to return after the massacre and take all the Jewish property too. However, the Arab armies whose goal was to destroy the Jewish State, failed to do so. The Arabs who had left their homes were kept in refugee camps, where they still exist today, 78 years and several generations later, although some of these have developed into towns. This is unprecedented. Refugees are only regarded as refugees for one generation in all other situations. Only when Israel can be blamed – and that wrongly – does the UN decide that the refugee status of the Arabs is permanent. In 1967, the Arab armies from the surrounding countries of Egypt, Jordan and Syria, tried for a second time, to destroy Israel and again failed to do so. This time, Israel reclaimed all the land previously lost in 1948, including Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria – occupied by Jordan and renamed ‘the West Bank’, the Gaza Strip – occupied by Egypt, and parts of the Golan Heights, occupied by Syria. and also captured the entire Sinai Peninsula, which they gave back to Egypt in exchange for peace. The Israelis were able to do this in only 6 days, because God, the God of Israel, was fighting for them. The day after their defeat in this war, the Arabs suddenly became ‘Palestinians’. One day, those living in Judea and Samaria were Jordanian Citizens, the next they were ‘Palestinians’. Because the Arabs could not defeat Israel militarily, they decided to do so politically and the Palestinian false narrative was born and is still used as a weapon to deligitimise Israel.
Well set out, Moira. You need to get behind us in every way you can.