Met police announces ‘no investigation’ into Hotovely protest. What was all the fuss about, then?
Anti-Hotovely, not anti-Semitic: British-Jewish people protesting against a previous Hotovely event last month.
Will supporters of Israel’s racist UK ambassador complain after the Metropolitan Police made nonsense of their accusations against students at LSE?
Tzipi Hotovely was invited to spout her vile extremism at a debate on the LSE campus on November 9 – to the disgust of around 18 student groups.
They organised a protest outside, that was highly visible and noisy – and also clearly non-violent. What would be the point of protesting against an advocate of violence with violence?
Hotovely was rushed into her waiting car by Israeli Embassy security staff but there is no evidence that she was ever in danger.
But the incident was criticised by politicians from both the Conservative government and the Labour Party.
Home Secretary Priti Patel pretended that the student protesters had subjected the genocidally violent Hotovely to “intimidation, harassment and abuse”. They didn’t. Isn’t that what she preaches, in any case?
And Labour busybody Lisa Nandy carped that “freedom of speech is a fundamental right and any attempt to silence or intimidate those we disagree with should never be tolerated”, without ever acknowledging that she was trying to silence and intimidate LSE students from exercising their own freedom of speech.
That’s typical of Labour’s current attitude, though: freedom of speech is only allowed if you’re wealthy and privileged. It’s a very Conservative way of thinking, isn’t it?
Both Patel and Nandy – and others – falsely characterised the students’ legitimate protest as a hate incident for their own right-wing political purposes.
This could not have been made more bluntly obvious than by the Metropolitan Police statement, which simply said there will be “no investigation” – because no incident took place that requires police involvement.
Now, all the politicians who screamed up a fuss about it need to take a good, hard look at themselves.
This Site has already highlighted the fact that Labour leader Keir Starmer, along with Nandy, shared a table with Hotovely at the Labour Friends of Israel annual dinner event earlier this week.
They were saying they shared this vile woman’s abhorrent views.
To This Writer, that means they are absolutely unfit to hold any position in the Labour Party whatsoever. They should not even be members.
The fact that they are squatting in offices that should be held by people who are worthy of those positions is an offence to Labour’s legacy, equivalent to defiling the graves of those who have gone before, in This Writer’s opinion.
Yet there they squat, still.
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