There were two marches at Cable Street today.
One was made up of Jews, many of them descendants of the original people who fought fascists in Cable Street 90 years ago, and our allies.
The other one was made up of people who are the new Jew haters.
Even as they entered the park they were screaming ‘Zionism is fascism’.
This group had been rowing as an anti Zionist Jew among them asked them not to attack Jews from the first march.
So they started chanting ‘Zionism is fascism’.
As I tried to film them they turned on me. They said I had to stop filming and I explained I was a journalist and free to film them.
They looked at my Star of David and said, ‘You aren’t a journalist, you are a Zionist.’
When I explained I was both a journalist and a Zionist they turned on me. Screamed ‘Zionism is racism’. They surrounded me with their tarpaulin which said - the irony - ‘no Pasaran’ and they tried to shove me away.
One man tried to body push me away with his chest. A steward with a ‘stand up to racism’ high vis jacket poked me with her placard. When I remonstrated with her she told me, ‘if I wanted to hurt you, you wouldn’t get out of here alive.’
People there kept telling me I had to leave.
An event which was meant to be about a famous fight against antisemitism became a hostile place for Jews.
The keffiyeh-wearing idealogues are hateful Jew haters.