Below are some pictures of the Gaza protests in London today. Other protests were mounted in Paris, Athens and Madrid. Would that the genocide in Darfur elicited such righteous anger.
Grinning inanely beneath a banner comparing Israel’s defensive operation with the Nazi slaughter of six million Jews - and millions of others, including gypsies, homosexuals and the disabled - is the British parliamentarian George Galloway. Galloway - who presents a show on Press TV - has the Iranian Holocaust-denial outfit all worried. Apparently, he was injured during the demonstration. Though I don’t think that quite amounts to martyrdom.
Next to Galloway is 80s pop star Annie Lennox. And next to her is Bianca Jagger, who for some reason insists on keeping ex-husband Mick’s last name. In recent years, Bianca has reinvented herself as part salonista, part street activist. But she will be principally remembered for the fact that she once rode a white horse into Manhattan’s Studio 54 nightclub - and for nothing else.
After “We Are All Hezbollah,” this banner was entirely predictable. And now that IDF ground troops have entered Gaza, we may well be seeing a great deal more of it. We may also see more stupid obscenities such as the banner carried on a protest in Amsterdam which declared: “Anne Frank is turning in her grave. Oh Israel!”
(By the way, for an explanation of why writing a song with the refrain “doo doo doodoodoodoo doo doo doodoodoodoo…nineteeneightyfour” makes you an authority on Middle Eastern politics, do check out Alex here.)
