Police Shut Down BBC Gaza Protest - But New Revelations Will Shock You w/. Ben Jamal
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🗓️ 16 January 2025
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Come to the protest on Saturday - the march will go on - spread the word: https://palestinecampaign.org/events/18-january-national-demonstration-for-palestine/
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| 0:00.0 | They're trying to ban a protest about Israel's genocide in Gaza this Saturday from outside the BBC. |
| 0:07.5 | By they, I mean London's metropolitan police. |
| 0:10.6 | Why a protest outside the BBC, first of all? |
| 0:12.8 | Well, as many of you will know, including those who've followed my recent work on this, |
| 0:17.0 | the BBC stands accused of, for example, systematic pro-Israel bias, erasing the real |
| 0:21.8 | horror of what is being unleashed against the Palestinian people, failing to provide accurate |
| 0:26.3 | context. We really could go on. These are allegations, by the way, which come from the BBC's |
| 0:30.8 | own journalists, including 13 whistleblowers who spoke to, me, and over 100 members of BBC |
| 0:37.3 | staff who signed a letter condemning their own employers. |
| 0:40.5 | Now, the original reason given by the metropolitan police for preventing a protest this Saturday outside the BBC |
| 0:46.6 | is because of alleged disruption to Jewish Londoners, specifically because of a particular synagogue. |
| 0:53.8 | Park for a minute that thousands of Jews have marched through London streets against the genocide |
| 0:59.3 | and they'll be marching again this Saturday and that the arrest rate at these protests |
| 1:03.9 | is lower than Glasami Music Festival. |
| 1:05.7 | The synagogue isn't on the route of the protest. |
| 1:07.7 | The argument being presented is that it's near the BBC. I mean, there's no, no synagogue is on the route of the protest. The argument being presented is that it's near the BBC. I mean, |
| 1:12.4 | there's no, no synagogue is on the route in any proposed route, and there have been no evidence |
| 1:17.9 | provided of the protest causing any threats to synagogues since this all began. Well, we've got |
| 1:25.5 | some developments to discuss. One of those developments concerns the publicly expressed political views of the rabbi of this synagogue, |
| 1:32.9 | who has publicly claimed that the protests have damaged the synagogue's ability to function. |
| 1:38.2 | He's made, therefore, public representations about these protests. |
| 1:42.0 | Well, we'll tell you, for full transparency, the views he has expressed publicly, which many of you will consider to be extreme on the question of Israel and Palestine. |
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