‘I need to be more clued up’: Students quizzed at pro-Palestine protest reveal how little they know about Israel-Hamas conflict – and aren’t even aware that terror group launched bloody slaughter on October 7
British students who were out protesting at a Pro-Palestine rally said they had ‘not seen anything that shows’ Hamas invaded Israel on October 7.
The two young women, who appear to be in their young twenties, were stopped at a protest march in London this month for a quick interview.
But despite holding up a home-made sign – complete with sketches and stickers – condemning the British government, the women admitted they weren’t sure about the Hamas attacks.
In a video shared to X – formerly Twitter – by Campaign Against Antisemitism, an interviewer stops the girls and asks: ‘When Hamas invaded Israel on the 7th October, what was your initial reaction to that?’
The girl on the left, holding the sign, replied: ‘I don’t believe they did, did they?’
Despite holding up a home-made sign – complete with sketches and stickers – condemning the British government, the women admitted they weren’t sure about the Hamas attacks
British students who were out protesting at a Pro-Palestine rally said they had ‘not seen anything that shows’ Hamas invaded Israel on October 7
Looking at her friend for reassurance, she asked: ‘Hamas?’
Her friend on the right replied: ‘I think so?’, lingering on her answer.
She continued: ‘Honestly I think I need to be a bit more clued up on everything that’s going on. So I feel like I’m not really qualified to answer that too well.’
Putting forward her views, the girl on the left then says: ‘I mean, I’m not sure if I’ve seen anything that shows that that’s actually happened or that’s correct’.
The camera filming then pans round to her home-made sign, with cut-out images and drawings, reading: ‘Rishi, Keir, U must be invertebrates cause ur spineless! Call 4 a ceasefire’.
A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: ‘This footage showcases the toxic combination of ignorance and support for terrorism that motivates too many of the protesters on these marches.
‘Is it any surprise that opinions such as these, accompanied by genocidal chanting, antisemitic signage and calls for violence, are terrifying the Jewish community?
‘Worse still, the demonstrations are coming just after the worst antisemitic atrocity since the Holocaust, when Jews are feeling particularly vulnerable.
‘This is why we have called on the police to use their existing powers under s.13 of the Public Order Act to ban these marches. London cannot continue to be a no-go zone for Jewish people week after week.’
The barbaric October 7 attacks saw Hamas fire a barrage of rockets from Gaza and send fighters across the border, killing 1,400 people and taking about 240 hostages.
More than 270 bodies, mostly young people, were strewn across the site of a music festival in a Negev desert kibbutz after Hamas attackers used paragliders to cross the border and fire indiscriminately into the crowd.
At a nearby kibbutz in southern Israel, Hamas terrorists massacred at least 40 babies and young children, before beheading some of them and gunning down their families.
Israeli festivalgoers run for their lives through the desert after being warned of an incoming rocket attack just as Hamas invaded the country on October 7
Noa Argamani who was kidnapped by Hamas fighters after being manhandled on a motorbike and driven across the desert
Children’s toys and personal items lie on the bloodstained floor of a child’s bedroom, following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri
Dashcam footage showed Gaza militants who attacked an all-night music festival in southern Israel shot and killed revelers at point-blank range, then looted their belongings
The death toll dwarfs the scale of any past attack by Islamists apart from 9/11.
Elsewhere in the clip, which saw an interviewer approach various people, one protestor argued that: ‘It is not Hamas that are terrorists, it’s America and Israel that are terrorists.’
Meanwhile, another labelled Hamas ‘freedom fighters’.
A third protestor said her reaction to the October 7 massacre was that it was a ‘beacon of hope’.
She explained: ‘Honestly, it showed signs of a resistance against the occupation, against the Palestinians.’
READ MORE: Israel sets up ‘Hamas Massacre’ website featuring graphic photos and videos of the October 7 terror attack as it vows to ‘document the horrors of that day’
‘It was a beacon of hope for me’ she continued. ‘It was them fighting back and showing resistance.’
Meanwhile another pledged: ‘The continued existence of Israel is a war crime’.
It comes as Scotland Yard this week gave the green light to a pro-Palestine rally on Armistice Day as its top cop claimed it had ‘no absolute power’ to ban the protest.
In a thinly-veiled swipe at the Home Secretary, Metropolitan Police chief Mark Rowley said the laws of Parliament and intelligence gathered by its sources did not justify a ban.
The country’s most senior police officer said the protest, which is expected to draw in 70,000 people, could only be banned if there was a ‘real threat’ of serious disorder.
This was despite fears of violent clashes between the marchers and Right-wing activists. The rally’s organisers had already rebuffed the Met’s pleas to postpone.
They have also defied Rishi Sunak, who said the event was ‘disrespectful’, and Suella Braverman, who called it a ‘hate march’.
Previous rallies have seen officers injured with fireworks, protesters flaunting extremist imagery and multiple arrests for anti-Semitic chanting.
Sir Mark said he could not ban Saturday’s demonstration simply because people felt it should not take place.
‘The laws created by Parliament are clear. There is no absolute power to ban protest, therefore there will be a protest this weekend,’ he insisted.
Scotland Yard last night gave the green light to a pro-Palestine rally on Armistice Day. Pictured: Activists rally in Trafalgar Square last weekend
‘The law provides no mechanism to ban a static gathering of people. It contains legislation which allows us to impose conditions to reduce disruption and the risk of violence, and in the most extreme cases when no other tactics can work, for marches or moving protests to be banned.’
He said use of the power to block moving protests is ‘incredibly rare’ and must be reserved for cases where there is intelligence to suggest a ‘real threat’ of serious disorder.
But he said organisers of Saturday’s march had shown ‘complete willingness to stay away from the Cenotaph and Whitehall and have no intention of disrupting the nation’s remembrance events’.
‘Should this change, we’ve been clear we will use powers and conditions available to us to protect locations and events of national importance at all costs,’ Sir Mark said.
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