What we knew confirmed. They want Israel off the map and presumably the Jews with it.

The pinned X post for the Palestine Solidarity Campaign tonight after this afternoon’s awful march.

At the march, despite the peace deal, the chants included Death, death, to the IDF.

The protest’s organisers, who promised to make it the biggest pro-Palestine demonstration in British history, insisted that marches will continue until “a free Palestine” is achieved.

Counter-protesters have been ushered away from the march by police, including one individual holding a sign that read: “We stand with Britain’s Jews.”

Officers talked to the counter-protester briefly before appearing to place him in handcuffs and marching him out.

And the Battle of Britain Monument on Victoria Embankment was defaced but, I think, not permantly damaged.

The demonstration took place as Sir Sadiq Khan, the city’s Mayor, faces backlash for suggesting protesters who chant “From the river to the sea” are not anti-Semitic. He told Susan Hall that it “all depends on context”. Video here. She wasn’t convinced and neither am I.

We can expect more antisemitic, Jew hatred demonstrations to come.  This is why.

Meanwhile over in east London in the ancestoral homeland, Tower Hamlets is found to have  ‘cropped’ the word anti-Semitism from a list of hate crimes on the website page that promotes National Hate Crime Awareness Week.

For four years, the poster on the web page has not made any reference to anti-Semitism, while at the same time listing disablism, homophobia, Islamophobia, racism and transphobia.

The word anti-Semitism has appeared on the council’s printed leaflet and other material promoting the annual awareness event, including a video. But since 2022 it has not been included on a prominent council website image publicising the week.

On Thursday, after a councillor raised the issue and The Telegraph contacted Tower Hamlets, the image online was altered or replaced so the word anti-Semitism was finally visible.

Tower Hamlets admitted the online image had the word anti-Semitism cropped out but denied it was intentional.

Last year Tower Hamlets bowed to pressure and ordered the removal of Palestinian flags from council buildings and lamp-posts after receiving legal complaints that they fostered division and hostility.

Lutfur Rahman, the mayor of Tower Hamlets, had insisted the flags were “symbols of solidarity and sympathy” for Palestinians in Gaza.

Observers pointed out there was an added irony to the word anti-Semitism being left off the website poster given that the borough was once home to one of Britain’s oldest Jewish communities.

Hilary Freeman, a Jewish writer and Tower Hamlets resident, told The Telegraph after the council’s website omission: “This is just hammering home the message that Jews don’t count. We’re just irritants. They really don’t care about us. . . Tower Hamlets has become extremely hostile to Jews. I’ve suffered anti-Semitic attacks in this borough and so has my daughter at school. It’s got to the point where we are going to leave the area as soon as we can.”