Gaza Protest Shutdown Exposed By Jewish Politician - w/. Green Party's Zack Polanski
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🗓️ 20 January 2025
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Summary
The Metropolitan police launched an outrageous assault on Saturday's Gaza protest in London, presenting it as a threat to Jewish Londoners.
The Green Party's deputy leader Zack Polanski explains why the narrative about the protests - and the police claims about what happened on Saturday - are entirely false.
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| 0:00.0 | Now, the protests against Israel's genocide continued this Saturday. |
| 0:04.5 | There is, of course, the respite of the ceasefire, but the killings were and are going on. |
| 0:09.7 | And clearly, those who believe Netanyahu and Trump, those around them, are going to allow the Palestinian people to live in peace and justice. |
| 0:17.5 | I'm afraid are going to arrive and, well, collide with a brutal reality. |
| 0:22.0 | Nonetheless, there was an attempt by the police to shut down the protests outside the BBC. |
| 0:28.1 | That attempt was successful. |
| 0:30.6 | And that protest, which I was attending, as is my brilliant guest here, was about the BBC's coverage of the genocide. |
| 0:39.9 | I wrote a very long investigative piece for Dropside News, and the point I would make is the |
| 0:46.1 | claims about the BBC's coverage are made, not least, by the BBC's own journalists. |
| 0:51.1 | So, in a democratic country, people want to protest what is the public broadcaster |
| 0:55.9 | which we fund with our license fees. The police stop that for reasons we will discuss. And then, |
| 1:01.9 | I'd say some pretty shocking developments took place, which were consistent with the Metropolitan |
| 1:06.1 | Police's tradition of, I think, dishonesty is being kind. I'm really glad to be joined by Zach Polanski, |
| 1:14.2 | who's the deputy leader of the Green Party of England Wales, but also is represented on the |
| 1:20.1 | Greater London Assembly. So, Zach, how are you doing? Great to see you. I'm good. Thanks for having |
| 1:24.5 | me, as always, Owen. So we were both at this protest. Can we just firstly start with, I guess, the premise, which was why the police intervened to stop the protest happening and then had a broader crack clown, which is that this is essentially, they say disruption to the Jewish community. |
| 1:44.2 | There was a, which is, I guess, translated as somehow menacing towards the Jewish community. |
| 1:51.2 | There were no synagogues on the route. |
| 1:52.9 | There was a synagogue near the BBC. |
| 1:56.3 | Do you want to just tell me about this and what you think as someone who is obviously a elected politician and a |
| 2:02.3 | proud British Jew, I suppose. I think it's as simple as this is the establishment protecting |
| 2:07.6 | itself. We have a government who has been complicit in arming a genocide. We have major |
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