Today marks the second anniversary of the terrorist group Hamas committing a massacre in Israel on 7 October 2023 which the world saw around 1,200 Jewish people being brutally killed.
Women and children were slaughtered by the terrorist group and captured people and held them hostage, some are still being held in unknown locations.
MPs including leaders of the opposition parties and the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer have called on the pro-Palestine protests to not take place today.
Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick told a fringe event on the side lines of the Tory party conference, “I heard today that there are protests being scheduled in universities for October the 7th – that’s a f****** disgrace.
“I would say first and foremost to people, our fellow citizens who are thinking of doing that, show some common decency.”
Starmer urged the pro-Palestine students not to hold the protests today on the 7 October second anniversary, saying the UK will “always stand tall,” he said the protests at universities is “un-British.”
The Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the protestors are “doing the wrong thing,” as students at King’s College were heard shouting “Israel, Israel terrorist state.”
Writing in the Times, Starmer said that the pro-Palestine protests have been used by some as a “despicable excuse to attack British Jews” in the past.
“Today, on the anniversary of the atrocities of October 7, students are once again planning protests,” Starmer wrote.
“This is not who we are as a country. It’s un-British to have so little respect for others. And that’s before some of them decide to start chanting hatred towards Jewish people all over again.”
Some 100 protestors attended a demonstration at a Sheffield University outside the student’s union who were chanting “From river to the sea, Palestine will be free, “there is only one solution – revolution, revolution” and “occupation is a crime, get your hands off Palestine.”
The Revolutionary Communist Party-organised event held today were shouting about the university’s policies, “Your uni is covered in Palestinian blood.”
Anton Parocki who is one organiser of the Sheffield protest of the Revolutionary Communist Party disagrees with Starmer the pro-Palestinian rallies of the 7 October massacre is “un-British.”
Parocki said: “I think it’s quite funny. What does that mean?
“Are all these people here anti-British? Are all the millions of people that come out for Palestinian protests anti-British?
“Is it anti-British to go against a genocide? That seems like what he’s saying, which is quite funny.”
He said: “But, to be honest, I don’t care what a war criminal says.
“Keir Starmer is a war criminal, so his opinion means very little to me.”
Mr Parocki added: “It’s disgraceful, isn’t it?
“He says it’s insensitive. You know what I think is insensitive? Is that there’s been two years of genocide.
“That’s way worse, with the British Government supporting it.”
Bridget Phillipson told LBC’s Nick Ferrari, “I would say to anybody thinking about protesting today, two years on from the appalling events, the atrocities that we saw on October 7, I would urge them to pause, to reflect, to remember our shared humanity.
“Whilst you can protest, and it’s an important cornerstone of our democracy, you don’t have to protest and you don’t have to protest today of all days.”
Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said, “I think people shouldn’t protest today.
“Liberal Democrats are giving a strong message that protesting on this anniversary with all the grief and sadness of it, particularly in the UK given what happened last week in Manchester with the appalling terrorist attack on worshippers at the synagogue.
“I think it would be completely wrong for people to protest.”
