‘Is nothing sacred?’ Cenotaph ‘desecrated’ by anti-Israel Palestinian protest
Tory MPs have reacted with fury after a pro-Palestinian protest was allowed to be arrange subsequent to the Cenotaph commenorating the conflict useless in Whitehall.
One MP described the protest as “a desecration” of “a sacred site” and there have been calls for to have it eliminated.
It follows 1000’s of anti-Israel protests swarming into London yesterday with some glorifying the Hamas terrorist atrocities inflicted on Israeli residents together with infants final weekend.
It was initially claimed that Labour run Westminster Council would have wanted given permission for the protest on a website constructed instantly subsequent to the Cenotaph.
However,a supply on the council mentioned: “It is always a police decision.”
Bassetlaw MP Brendan Clarke-Smith mentioned that pro-Palestinian protests “should be banned” as they’ve in different European nations together with France.
He mentioned: “It’s outrageous to have it surrounding the cenotaph.”
Ipswich MP Tom Hunt, deputy chairman of the Tory Common Sense Group, mentioned: “Under no circumstances should something like this be allowed. It’s beyond disrespectful.
“The Cenotaph remembers all those who have died fighting for our country and it’s values. Apologists for terror do not represent these values and should be allowed nowhere near such a sacred national monument.”
Westminster MP Nickie Aitken, a former chief of the council, described the choice as “inappropriate.”
She said: “I discover it obscure why permission can be given for any protest ought to happen across the cenotaph. Parliament or Trafalgar Squares are way more applicable.”
The image came courtesy of a picture taken by Conservative member and political commentator Emily Hewertson.
She said: “Setting up a protest round The Cenotaph…How disrespectful are you able to get?”