The anti-Israel mob has a new mission: to erase the truth about October 7, 2023. The sadistic violence unleashed by Hamas that day – with mass killing, torture, sexual assaults, beheadings, mutilations, the murder of entire families and people burned alive – was so grotesque, that it threatened to expose the true objective of the mob: not a peaceful two-state solution, but annihilating Israel though violence.
The massacre may have opened some people’s eyes, but not in left-wing and Islamist circles. They immediately responded with a tsunami of hatred and violence against Israel, fuelled by lies and conspiracies. Their campaign to vilify Israel and Jews through blood libels – such as false claims of ‘genocide’ – has been so successful that even MPs and the London mayor have adopted the same rhetoric.
Yet their mission isn’t complete. Vilification works best when nobody remembers the horrific events that started the war – therefore, the history of 7 October must be rewritten.
Vilification works best when nobody remembers the horrific events that started the war – therefore, the history of 7 October must be rewritten
While for Israelis and Jews this is a solemn day of commemoration and bereavement, around the world, over 260 pro-Palestinian events are trying to make sure it isn’t remembered as the day Jews were massacred. A flyer from Australia reads, ‘Don’t let Israel steal the date.’ Instead, the protests want to celebrate ‘the resistance’ and recast this as the day ‘the genocide’ supposedly began (or resumed, as they claim it stretches back to Israel’s founding). They either justify the massacre, minimise what had happened, or deny it altogether – echoing the darkest tradition of Holocaust deniers. It is a staggering moral inversion: taking the day of the worst slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust and turning it into a celebration of the aggressors.
I attended today’s protest in central London, organised by a student coalition to mark ‘three years of genocide’, with of course no word about the Hamas attack. Organisers have called on participants to ‘join us in our struggle to liberate Palestine from the river to the sea’ – understood by many to be a call to annihilate Israel, which would be an actual, rather than imagined, genocide.
On arrival, the atmosphere was so jubilant, that you would have thought it was a street party with keffiyehs rather than a sombre march against mass slaughter. These young people, a similar age to the young Israelis slaughtered at the Nova festival on that black Saturday, were casually cheering for the murder of Jews. They chanted the infamous ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’, as well as ‘Zionism – shut it down’, ‘resistance is justified’ and ‘smash the Zionist settler state’.
Whether they are naive, ignorant pawns, or have a chilling awareness of what they are really celebrating, the ‘resistance’ they support stands for Hamas’s ultimate goal, expressed in its founding charter: a war of religion to kill Jews.
Along the way, the march was met with defiant counter protesters carrying Israeli flags. Their anger at those shamelessly marching on this day was unmistakable, with many shouting ‘scum’ and ‘terrorists off our streets’. More and more police officers poured in to act as a buffer between the two groups.
The sinister nature of the Gaza protest was difficult to comprehend as I walked through the march, grieving for Israeli family members killed on 7 October and in the war. Behind me one man said to his friend: ‘I’m British, but I’m not British enough to love Jews.’ This ‘anti-racist’ crowd are utterly convinced they are the righteous ‘goodies’ fighting evil.
This is historical revisionism at its most dangerous. Universities, politicians, and the media must call out these modern neo-Nazis for what they are. Their efforts will continue, including this weekend with a ‘national march for Palestine’ protest. We must not let them win the battle over truth. If we let them erase October 7, we’re letting the worst kinds of cruelty become invisible. Remembering what happened, just like we refuse to let the world forget the Holocaust, isn’t about looking backward; it’s the only shield we have left to stop this from happening all over again.
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