FULL RALLY HIGHLIGHTS: UK Jewish Communities Unite in London Against Rising Antisemitism | AC14

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[00:00:00]Thank you, Ed. Thank you very much. It is now my pleasure to introduce Richard Ty, deputy leader of the Reform Party.

[00:00:12]Thank you, friends, family, extended family.

[00:00:19]On the one hand, it's good to SEE YOU, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, it's sad. WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO BE HERE. It is a tragedy. It is a tragedy because there has been an absolute absence of courage, an absence of leadership in this country. AND THE RESULT, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, IS THAT the scourge OF ANTI-SEMITISM HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO FLOURISH in our beloved country. And we have to say, folks, we're sick and tired of warm words from waffly politicians.

[00:00:55]>> I'M SICK AND TIRED OF IT. YOU'RE SICK AND TIRED OF IT. WE'RE ALL SICK AND TIRED OF IT.

[00:01:01]What we NEED IS ACTION. REAL ACTION. WE NEED TO BAN THE HATE MARCHES. I CALLED FOR THEM TO BE BANNED just after October the 7th.

[00:01:11]We need TO BAN AND PRESCRIBE THE IRGC.

[00:01:14]WE'RE SICK OF THEM. GET OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.

[00:01:19]And we need TO BAN THE DREADFUL, APPALLING MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD. We want them gone.

[00:01:27]And then the fourth thing we need to do is we need to take on the failure of leadership in our universities >> BECAUSE WHAT THEY HAVE DONE WE MUST NOT UNDERESTIMATE. THEY HAVE ALLOWED ANTI-SEMITISM TO flourish >> in our universities. IT'S AN ABSOLUTE SHAMBOLIC DISGRACE. AND I'M ANGRY AND YOU'RE ANGRY AND IT'S GOT TO STOP. MAYBE WE SHOULD SAY TO THE UNIVERSITIES, if you allow this TO CARRY ON, FORGET any form OF GRANTS. FORGET ANY FORM OF STUDENT LOANS. FORGET ANY FORM OF STU RESEARCH FUNDING. FORGET IT.

[00:02:07]>> YOU STOP IT AND YOU STOP IT NOW.

[00:02:14]We have to make this the big change for everyone BECAUSE AN ATTACK ON THE Jewish community is an attack on British values. It's an attack on the British community. And it would be just the beginning. And that is why we have to remember this is a moment to stand together, to stand united because all of us know that united we stand and we win. Divided we fail and we lose. Ladies and gentlemen, I stand with the Jewish community. We all stand with the JEWISH COMMUNITY. LET'S WIN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

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[00:06:15]Thank you.

[00:06:22]Thank you very much, beautiful. Uh, it's now my pleasure to introduce, and you should be able to see on the screen above me, a video that has been prepared by the communities of the six largest diaspora outside of the UK. It's quite a remarkable thing they put together for us, and I hope it's going to go live now.

[00:06:47]From the Washington DC office of ADL, we are all here together with a clear message. We stand strong with the British community in the UK.

[00:06:57]>> The Jewish community of Argentina, the Jewish community in France, >> the Jewish community of Germany is standing strong with the Jewish community in the UK.

[00:07:06]>> Whatever affects you affects us. And we know that whatever affects us affects you because we're one people and we're one family. I'm here with over 700 Jewish women in northern New Jersey. We Jews in the United States stand with our fellow Jews in the United Kingdom and fighting anti-semitism.

[00:07:28]>> Wherever you go in the world, where you find Jews, there is community and there is family. The Australian Jewish community is thinking about extended Jewish family in the UK. I'm Israel.

[00:07:42]>> I'M ISRAEL.

[00:07:51]It is now my pleasure to welcome Adrien Cohen to the stage. Adrien is the senior vice president uh and the acting president of the board of deputies of British Jews. Adrien, thank you. Thank you, Keith. I'm >> I'm friends.

[00:08:22]Thank you so much for being here today in your thousands. I can see Jews. I can see non-Jews. Friends of all faiths and none. It's so great to see the Iranian flags here.

[00:08:39]>> It's so GREAT TO SEE THE KURDISH flags here.

[00:08:47]It's so great to see so many of you here today to come and stand with our community and to say we support you.

[00:08:57]In recent months, we have seen a wave of anti-semitism that has shaken our community.

[00:09:04]From the murderous attack in Heaton Park to the stabbings in Golders Green and the cowly arson attacks against our communities.

[00:09:15]This is no perception. This is real.

[00:09:20]It's on our streets and it's online.

[00:09:25]Schools and synagogues operating under extraordinary security. families feeling unsafe showing their identity and students facing intimidation on campus.

[00:09:39]So we need every one of you right now because we are in a fight against hatred.

[00:09:47]But we will not succumb because we are resilient. We have been here before. We shall overcome.

[00:10:00]However, we must be clear. What is at stake is not just Jewish security. The spread of extremism and hatred threatens all of us. Whether it's from the far left or the far right or Islamist extremism, whether homegrown or whether it comes from abroad, whether it's Iranian inspired or from other countries, this is a threat to the most basic of British values of fairness and decency, of inclusion and tolerance.

[00:10:38]To confront hatred and extremism is not a Jewish responsibility.

[00:10:45]It's a national responsibility.

[00:10:50]>> We have to do this together.

[00:10:54]Here today, we have united the Jewish community in all of our diversity and we have been joined by all parts of society bridging political divides.

[00:11:07]Everyone who has joined this crowd or speaks from this stage has come to stand by us. Whatever your party, whatever your background, we welcome you and we thank you.

[00:11:26]But solidarity is not enough. The border deputies and the Jewish leadership council has submitted to the government a very clear a very clear set of policy steps.

[00:11:40]Three Ps. They must protect the Jews against those who want to harm us. They need to prosecute those who incite hatred.

[00:11:51]And they must partner with the Jewish community to confront anti-semitism.

[00:11:57]We welcome steps that the government and police have already taken, but of course much much more needs to be done and we will continue to insist that this is driven through with political determination to stop this threat.

[00:12:15]Friends, we gather in resolve to defend our community, our democracy, and the future of Jewish life in Britain.

[00:12:26]This rally is one step in the beginning of the building of a coalition with allies to fight the scourge of anti-semitism.

[00:12:38]The fight against anti-semitism is the fight for Britain's future.

[00:12:44]And friends, we will win that fight.

[00:12:54]Hi.

[00:12:59]>> Thank you very much, Adrian. It's now my pleasure to welcome to the stage Mr. Gideon Falter, chairman of the campaign against anti-semitism.

[00:13:16]Friends, united we stand.

[00:13:22]Look at you.

[00:13:24]At least 10,000 people strong.

[00:13:31]I don't know if we've got more people here from leads or from the Iranian community, from the British friends of Israel, from people of all faiths and none people.

[00:13:48]People who have heard the call and come here today.

[00:13:52]And friends, I came here today. I landed this morning from Israel.

[00:13:59]And let me tell you that place is thriving.

[00:14:06]In Israel, anti-semitism is a word that they use about other places, about this place.

[00:14:16]Because everywhere I went, I met Jews of all different nationalities. I met French Jews and I met American Jews and they said to me the same thing.

[00:14:26]How is it in England?

[00:14:30]We have become a disgrace amongst the nations shame >> and they worry about us because in Israel they have lived through inifaders.

[00:14:47]They know what it's like.

[00:14:50]They know it means blood on the ground, stabbings, bombings, vehicle rammings.

[00:14:59]And the people who shouted globalize the intera.

[00:15:13]Now they have brought us the Britard.

[00:15:20]When Jews are murdered at synagogue on Yamipur, that is what the British Father looks like.

[00:15:29]>> Shame.

[00:15:31]>> WHEN JEWS ARE STABBED AT BUS STOPS IN GOLDERS'S GREEN, THAT IS THE BRITISH FATHER.

[00:15:38]>> SHAME.

[00:15:40]>> WHEN HAD SOLAR AMBULANCES ARE BURNED TO THE GROUND BECAUSE THEY HAVE A STAR OF DAVID ON THE SIDE. THAT IS THE BRITISH fer shame.

[00:15:51]And when synagogues are burned, when Jewish school children have to jump out of the way to escape a potential vehicle ramming, that is the Brit. And we ARE IN THE FOOTHILLS OF THIS THING.

[00:16:06]SHAME.

[00:16:11]>> FRIENDS, we need action desperately in this country.

[00:16:16]And we've all been saying the same thing. We know what THE ANSWERS ARE. BAN THE hate marches.

[00:16:24]>> Ban the Islamic REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS. BAN THE MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD.

[00:16:30]TAKE ACTION.

[00:16:32]STOP FUNDING WITH PUBLIC FUNDS.

[00:16:36]THE INDOCTRINATION AND RADICALIZATION OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IN OUR UNIVERSITIES.

[00:16:44]WE KNOW THE ANSWERS AND WE HAVE BEEN FAILED.

[00:16:49]>> AND BECAUSE WE HAVE BEEN FAILED, THERE ARE DEAD JEWS. THERE ARE JEWS WHO ARE BLEEDING. THERE IS A COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN BETRAYED. BECAUSE THIS COUNTRY USED TO BE renowned throughout the world for tolerance and decency. A country that is slow to anger.

[00:17:09]And yet here we are now at the Battle of Cable Street in 1936.

[00:17:17]Britain flirted with fascism and rejected it because of the Battle of Cable Street. JEWS AND NON-JEWS ALIKE, PEOPLE LIKE YOU, stood together and turned down the far right.

[00:17:35]And yet here we are threatened by a new radicalism.

[00:17:41]Islamist and far-left radicalism is endangering this country.

[00:17:50]And Britain has been radicalized. So much SO THE UNITED ARAB Emirates no longer sends its students here if I fear they become radicalized by the Muslim Brotherhood. shame.

[00:18:05]>> 4.7 million British people, according to our polling, believe that the OCTOBER 7TH ATTACKS WERE JUSTIFIED. SHAME.

[00:18:17]ONE in five of our students, our future leaders, the future holders of these great offices of state studying at our universities, one in FIVE OF THEM WOULD NOT SHARE ACCOMMODATION WITH A JEW.

[00:18:34]>> SHAME.

[00:18:36]WHAT is become of us?

[00:18:39]Unless we dradicalize Britain, there will be none of the Britain that we know and love.

[00:18:47]And we are not here because of something happening thousands of miles away.

[00:18:53]We are here because OF SOMETHING HAPPENING ON OUR STREETS TO US.

[00:19:03]AND IT IS HAPPENING BECAUSE OF APPEASEMENT.

[00:19:06]A WORD THAT WAS MADE DIRTY BY THE GREAT MAN WINSTON CHURCHILL EMBODIED IN A STATUE in Parliament Square. Laid down their lives by the hundreds of thousands to fight appeasement to fight for our values. And yet appeasement is here.

[00:19:27]>> I witnessed it myself in Parliament Square when I went with the campaign against anti-semitism billboard van. It had the photographs of child hostages on it. And we were stopped by police and told to get out in case we offended supporters of Hamas.

[00:19:47]Shame.

[00:19:49]And just a mile down the road, I was stopped by police and told that I was quite openly Jewish and must leave the area or face arrest.

[00:20:02]>> Shame.

[00:20:06]Friends, I will finish with this.

[00:20:12]If people want to know what they might have done, whether they would have spoken out in the 1930s of Germany, they need only ask themselves what they are doing today.

[00:20:33]Never again is now.

[00:20:39]>> And if you know people who will go on every march going but are not here today when they're Jewish countrymen are under attack, then you must tell those people they are radicalized.

[00:20:58]THEY MUST SNAP OUT OF IT BECAUSE I HAVE JUST BEEN TO ISRAEL AND I CAN TELL YOU NOTHING THAT THEY ARE DOING ON THESE STREETS IS MAKING THE BLINDEST bit of difference in Israel or the Middle East.

[00:21:11]BUT IT IS DISFIGURING THIS COUNTRY BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION.

[00:21:25]And for that matter, if they had nothing to say about the imprisonment of Muslims in concentration camps by China or THE SLAUGHTER OF TENS OF THOUSANDS OF IRANIANS IN THE STREETS OF IRAN, THEN THEY ARE RADICALIZED. They are obsessed and they need your intervention because you are the righteous ones. BUT THERE ARE TOO FEW OF US. We need more.

[00:21:56]SO GO FROM HERE.

[00:21:58]Go from here and have the difficult conversations with the young radicalized children of the families you know, the colleagues that you see at work, friends, family.

[00:22:10]Talk to them. Tell them that they change nothing in the Middle East, but they are RUINING THIS COUNTRY. NOT JUST FOR THE JEWISH COMMUNITY, BUT FOR ALL OF US.

[00:22:24]END THE BRIT BRITAIN FACE DOWN EXTREMISM. Thank you.

[00:22:48]Join us friends as we sing these words of Isel.

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[00:23:23]Let's do it one more time, guys. We got to hear you everybody. Come on.

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[00:25:02]Let's go.

[00:25:29]Thank you very much. Thank you.

[00:25:33]>> Thank you. It it is it's now a particular pleasure to welcome on the stage a deep friend of the community and a leader in the Christian world. We do have many friends out there and the right Reverend Luca Nena Nagoy, Bishop of Wilston is most certainly one of them. Welcome.

[00:26:07]Friends, good afternoon. It is good to be here, albeit uh sad that we need to gather for uh a reason such as this one.

[00:26:16]Uh it is wonderful to see many familiar faces, many friends. Uh and I'm sure in the crowd there are many of our uh Christian sisters and brothers who have rushed out of our churches to be with you uh this afternoon.

[00:26:32]We gather today because something vital is at stake. Not only the safety of our Jewish sisters and brothers, but the soul of our society itself.

[00:26:44]We come from various faith traditions, from various backgrounds and political traditions as well. Yet we stand together because some truth must transcend any division that scatters us.

[00:27:00]One of those truth is this.

[00:27:04]Anti-semitism is evil and it must be confronted wherever it arises.

[00:27:11]Anti-semitism is not simply another passing prejudice. It is a persistent adaptive hatred that has survived across centuries, across ideologies, across political movements. And history teaches us that wherever anti-semitism flourishes, democracy itself begins to erode.

[00:27:38]That is why we must resist the false equivalences. And what about baptism?

[00:27:44]Every form of hatred matters indeed. But anti-semitism carries a particular historical persistent persistence that demands moral clarity.

[00:27:57]It mutates. It survives and feeds our fear, grievance and division.

[00:28:05]And it grows when public voices choose outrage over responsibility.

[00:28:12]When platforms that shape culture become instruments of scapegoating, mockery, and suspicion.

[00:28:21]Words matter. Leadership matters. When public figures in conspir trade in conspiracy and division they do more than inflame opinion they corrode the moral foundation of society.

[00:28:39]Leadership that profits from division is not courage its recklessness.

[00:28:45]The safety and freedom of Jewish citizens is therefore not a Jewish issue alone. It would be perverse to expect that our Jewish sisters and brother are to be the sole artisans of the change they aspire to see in society.

[00:29:02]It is a democratic issue. It is a human issue. No society can call itself free while any community feels under threat and has to live in fear.

[00:29:19]For those of us whose lives are shaped by faith, this conviction runs deep. The Jesus I follow was born Jewish, lived Jewish, worshiped as a Jew. So for Christians, standing against anti-semitism is not an optional act of generosity towards uh a minoritized imagined community. It is a matter of spiritual integrity.

[00:29:49]and moral leadership.

[00:29:54]But this gathering, I would argue, is larger than any tradition. Across our differences, we share a common responsibility to protect one another's humanity and to refuse the politics of hatred and fear.

[00:30:11]Dr. Martin Luther King on the other side of the pond a few decades ago said, "We must learn to live like brothers together or perish together as fools."

[00:30:24]Those words carry profound urgency today. So let this rally be more than a moment of sympathy. Let it become a commitment to solidarity and allship and allship and solidarity. not assuming that anti-semitism is a Jewish problem.

[00:30:44]It is primarily a problem of those of us who aren't Jewish.

[00:30:50]And let us let us invest deeply in relationships across faith traditions.

[00:30:58]Let us invest in education, in encounters.

[00:31:03]Because when communities truly know one another, fear begins to lose its grip on us. It becomes to lose its power to divide and polarize.

[00:31:15]We need coalitions strong enough, compassionate enough, and courageous enough to build a different future uh not only for the Jewish community, but indeed for all of us as one united nation.

[00:31:32]A future where Jewish life flourishes openly and joyfully. A future where hatred is not normalized. A future worthy of the words never again.

[00:31:46]But never again cannot remain a slogan we inherit from history.

[00:31:52]It must become a commitment we embody through action.

[00:31:59]So let us be the generation that refuses indifference.

[00:32:04]Let us be the generation that interrupts hatred before it becomes violence.

[00:32:11]Let us be the generation that means it when it says never again.

[00:32:18]Let us leave this place.

[00:32:22]Let us leave this place resolved to build the communities where Jewish people are not merely tolerated but safe, valued, protected and cherished.

[00:32:40]Because ultimately this truth remains.

[00:32:44]No one is safe until everyone is safe.

[00:32:51]Shalom. Peace be to you.

[00:33:00]>> Thank you very much. Wonderful words to hear. It is now my pleasure to introduce Rabbi Josh Levy and Rabbi Charlie Bejinski, co-chairs of the Movement for Progressive Judaism. Thank you.

[00:33:30]Today, British Jews stand together in all of our diversity.

[00:33:36]Among us are people from different synagogues, different denominations, different politics, and different parts of the country.

[00:33:46]and standing with us, our allies from across British society.

[00:33:53]That unity in this moment is powerful.

[00:33:57]It speaks to the seriousness of this moment.

[00:34:02]The past months have been painful, exhausting, >> deeply isolating.

[00:34:09]Many Jews in this country have felt frightened, alone, unseen.

[00:34:17]We stand here heartbroken, angry, frightened.

[00:34:23]And that fear expresses itself in different ways.

[00:34:29]But we also stand here determined, determined to be safe as Jews in this country.

[00:34:37]Protection matters and we are grateful for it.

[00:34:41]Grateful to the CST who work for us every day.

[00:34:48]Grateful to the police for their care and support.

[00:34:55]But we also have to accept that that should never be the norm for the next generation of British Jews.

[00:35:05]The opposite of anti-semitism is not only security. It is the ability to live openly and confidently in the country that is our home. The opposite of anti-semitism is belonging.

[00:35:26]Belonging is built through relationships, responsibility, and the kind of country we choose to build together.

[00:35:36]And it is also built with words. In Jewish tradition, words matter because words form worlds. The language we use shapes the society that our children will inherit. Words can make space for dignity and complexity or they can harden fear and suspicion.

[00:36:01]Over the recent years, the language of this country has become harsher, more angry. Complexity is mocked as weakness.

[00:36:11]Minorities are spoken about as threats instead of people. And as Jews, we know where that language can lead. We know because we've seen it before and we are beginning to feel it again.

[00:36:29]Jewish life cannot be only about fear.

[00:36:35]Judaism is a story about what we are commanded to build.

[00:36:40]The prophet Mikah had a vision of a world in which everyone, everyone, not only Jews, can sit under their vine and their fig tree and none will make them afraid.

[00:36:55]That is the vision that we as British Jews must pursue.

[00:36:59]A Britain in which people can live openly, disagree without hatred, and belong without fear.

[00:37:12]We need our children to inherit a Britain shaped not by suspicion or division, but by responsibility and care for one another.

[00:37:25]So yes, there must be real action against anti-semitism, serious action, sustained action.

[00:37:36]And there is something else we must demand of ourselves as a society. That we do not want a country shaped by suspicion, anger, and permanent division. Because Jewish life in Britain has never been only about survival. It has been about helping build a society rooted in justice, compassion, and human dignity. And that's why today matters.

[00:38:04]and why it matters that we all stand here together.

[00:38:09]This is not simply a gathering against anti-semitism.

[00:38:13]It is a statement about the country we believe in and the future we all want our children to inherit. Thank you.

[00:38:45]Oh.

[00:38:47]Um, I'd now like to um ask somebody to appear well on the screen. He's a wonderful friend of the Jewish community. He's been very vocal uh in recent days. It is of course the legend Boy George.

[00:39:08]>> Hello everyone. I really wish I could be there today, but I imagine it's going to be such a beautiful, powerful event, not only full of amazing Jewish people, but also people who support their Jewish friends. People like me who keep being thanked for speaking up for Jewish people. I don't want to be thanked for doing what is right. I have so many beautiful Jewish friends and I know some of you will be there today. But even if I don't know you, I send you my love and I hope today sends a powerful message to the entire world. God bless you all and have the most amazing event.

[00:39:49]>> Thank you, George.

[00:40:04]Sometimes I lay under the moon.

[00:40:09]I thank God I'm breathing.

[00:40:13]Then I pray don't take me soon. Cuz I am here for a reason. Sometimes in my tears I drown.

[00:40:24]But I never let it get me down.

[00:40:28]So when negativity surrounds, I know someday it will all turn around.

[00:40:36]Because all my life I've been waiting for, I've been praying for for the children to say that we don't want to fight no more. There'll be no more war and our children will play. Sing one day.

[00:40:58]One day.

[00:40:59]Come on guys, sing it. One day.

[00:41:10]It's not about we'll all lose cuz we all lose when they feed on souls of the innocent. Blood trans keep on moving while the waters are still raging in this maze. We can lose our way our way. It might drive you crazy, but don't let it phase you. No way. Ladies and gents, I want to hear you sing. Come on, sing it. Sometimes in my tears I drown, but I never let it get me down. I saw a negativity surround.

[00:41:47]I know someday we'll all turn around because all my life I've been I've been for the people to say that we don't want to fight no more. There'll be no more war and our children will play. One day sing it one day. One day sing one day.

[00:42:14]One day, one day.

[00:42:17]One more time. One day, one day, one day.

[00:42:25]One day, one day, one day.

[00:42:35]Loads of love. Thank you so much. Make some noise.

[00:42:45]Thank you guys. Wonderful. Thank you.

[00:42:50]Uh as uh as I said earlier, we have guests here from across society. And our next speaker is a wonderful friend of the community. He is Fias Mugal Obbe, founder of Faith Matters and Tell Mama.

[00:43:05]Fias.

[00:43:10]It's a real pleasure to be with you here. And as a British Muslim member, let me tell you, you are not alone.

[00:43:23]>> And just look at the numbers here because you matter. You are part of Britain. You are part of a Britain that I want to see where you are listened to, respected, where you don't have to live behind walls. fences, bodyguards. That's the Britain I want.

[00:43:46]But unfortunately, there are some within my fellow faith community that are part, I have to say, sadly, of the problem.

[00:44:02]There are some who see and believe in Islamist extremism who are making all our lives difficult.

[00:44:18]And I see the Iranian flags here because those Islamist extremists are also slaughtering people in Iran. 30 to 35,000 of them.

[00:44:35]>> And I want to say that actually it is a collective fight for us all to take back the soul of Britain.

[00:44:47]A Britain that we stand firm to defend its values and challenge the hate and intolerance that is affecting your community, but also affects people like me because after they come for you, they'll come for me.

[00:45:07]>> So, this is a collective fight and it's also a collective fight for the soul of British Islam.

[00:45:14]What does that look like? And it should look open, pluralistic, accepting, acknowledging, and also standing with Britain's Jews.

[00:45:36]>> You know, I I am one of those people who was kicked out of Uganda by idiomin. So my family kind of knows something about persecution, but I don't have to tell you about that.

[00:45:51]The reality is unless you have been dislocated, you don't fully realize how important it is to hang on to what you have.

[00:46:02]And I remember something that deeply connected me to British Jewish communities historically was when I was kicked out of Compala and I left Enbe as a young child.

[00:46:18]It was just four years later that Operation Thunderbolt had to take out over a hundred Israeli hostages from that very airport.

[00:46:30]And I salute the strength that Jews have shown in just simply defending their communities and their human rights.

[00:46:47]And now is the time to stand up for those in my community who speak behind walls and make phone calls.

[00:46:57]Where are they when it matters?

[00:47:03]Where are they when it matters?

[00:47:08]I heard Kem speak out about the problem.

[00:47:12]I heard her boldly speak out about Islamist extremism.

[00:47:17]And yet this government can barely name it.

[00:47:27]To get Islamist extremism out their mouths is like watching a bulldog chewing a wasp.

[00:47:38]It really is.

[00:47:41]And the reality is unless they don't name it and challenge it and fight it and I as a British Muslim will continue to fight and call out the cancer within.

[00:47:57]UNLESS THIS GOVERNMENT DOESN'T HAVE THE GUTS TO CHALLENGE IT, we are going to see the cancer affect all of us.

[00:48:11]And I stand proudly with you British Jews, Britain's Jews who respected me when I suffered racism, WHO ACCEPTED ME AS A brown Asian man in the 80s, who gave me choice, who gave me dignity. I stand with you and I say one thing.

[00:48:38]If this government doesn't stand with you 100% and call out the problem of Islamist extremism, then it's time they go.

[00:48:52]>> Thank you.

[00:48:59]>> Thank you, Fias. A true friend. Uh wonderful man. It is now uh my privilege to welcome Lord Waln.

[00:49:09]Lord Wii is the government's former advisor on political violence and disruption.

[00:49:16]I'm sure you've read many of his work.

[00:49:19]>> Thank you so much.

[00:49:23]I am so proud to be standing here today, to be standing with you.

[00:49:33]And I just want to say to my Jewish friends in the audience, I'm sorry and I'm ashamed and I'm angry about what is happening in our country.

[00:49:46]what is happening to you as you just try to live your lives. But you know better than anyone the essential transformative power of hope, the necessity of the light that cuts through the darkness.

[00:50:08]All of you standing here represent not just the light of hope but the certainty that we will push back this tide of anti-semitism with your determination, your grit, with the anger and defiance that burns in every one of you. We will return Britain to the tolerant, liberal, safe haven that has made it a beacon in dark times.

[00:50:48]And we were told to avoid party politics here, but I was a Labour Party member for a long time, so just indulge me for a moment.

[00:51:03]>> I have One simple message for my friends, friends who consider themselves to be friends of the Jewish community and opponents of anti-semitism, but somehow always hedge their bets or fail to speak clearly when moral clarity is so desperately needed.

[00:51:35]I say this one way or another, the people gathered here will succeed in making Britain safe for Jews again.

[00:51:52]They will do it with you or they will go around you.

[00:51:59]So those who want your continued support, who tell you that they will do whatever it takes, they better understand what that actually means.

[00:52:18]It means having the guts to take the power to stop these hateinfested marches.

[00:52:30]It means taking the gloves off against the evil Iranian regime, starting with banning the IRGC.

[00:52:44]It means stopping the wave of vandalism and violence being carried out against businesses by the far left in the name of Palestine.

[00:53:00]It means ending this obsession with Israel above any other country or conflict zone in the world.

[00:53:11]And above all, it means a sustained societywide effort led by the government, this government or another government to name and to defeat the evil of Islamist extremism.

[00:53:33]a cancer that not only drives hatred of Jews, but targets ordinary Muslims and seeks to hollow out our great country from within.

[00:53:50]They will not prevail.

[00:53:53]We will prevail. Thank you so much for what you do and having me here.

[00:54:08]Thank you.

[00:54:10]>> Thank you everybody.

[00:54:18]>> We hear you.

[00:54:20]>> We are with you.

[00:54:22]>> We are with you. Okay. Okay. Okay.

[00:54:28]Can I now uh welcome our final speaker of the afternoon, Mr. Saul Taylor, president of the United Synagogue. Thank you, Saul.

[00:54:49]Is it just me >> or do you also feel that in there they don't understand what we are going through.

[00:55:07]>> Arsenal attacks, stabbings, murders.

[00:55:12]Jews openly intimidated on the streets of Britain just because they are Jews.

[00:55:20]If this was any other community, this would be a national outrage.

[00:55:27]WHERE ARE THE JEWISH LIVES MATTER MARCHES?

[00:55:33]Where is the so-called anti-racist movement?

[00:55:39]As we know only too well, Jews don't seem to count.

[00:55:47]Thank God we have organizations like the CST, Shamrim, and Hutsa. CAN WE SHOW OUR APPRECIATION FOR OUR SELFLESS HEROES?

[00:56:04]I call on the government, as I did after the Kenton arson, to call this out for what it blatantly is. This is an epidemic of anti-Jewish hate.

[00:56:22]It is very clear that there are people living in the UK that don't want us in this country.

[00:56:31]Some even want us dead.

[00:56:36]>> We need and demand urgent action.

[00:56:41]We need our friends, the good, freedomloving people of Britain to stand with us. Can we have another cheer FOR ALL OUR NON-JEWISH FRIENDS THAT ARE JOINING US TODAY?

[00:57:07]I actually met the prime minister in Kenton United Synagogue the week of the Kenton attack.

[00:57:16]I told him of the huge and rising costs that you are all paying for security costing the United Synagogue, the charity that I proudly lead upwards of 1 million pounds a year.

[00:57:34]I told him of one synagogue alone that spends £20,000 a month on guarding.

[00:57:42]he gasped.

[00:57:44]This is, in my view, a tax on being Jewish in Britain.

[00:57:54]We appreciate the funds that have been provided by the government, but Jews should not need protecting 247 in modern Britain.

[00:58:09]The prime minister said that whoever was behind the arson attack, and I quote, will feel the full force of the law.

[00:58:23]I then informed him that a 17-year-old boy had plead guilty, was released on bail, >> and the only restriction is he cannot enter a synagogue.

[00:58:41]>> I said, "Prime Minister, is that feeling the full force of the law?"

[00:58:48]He gasped again, "Has there been tangible action? No.

[00:58:54]>> Successive British governments have not done enough. Have they banned the hate preachers?

[00:59:00]>> No.

[00:59:01]>> Have they banned the hate marches?

[00:59:03]>> No.

[00:59:04]>> Have they banned the Iranian revolutionary guard core?

[00:59:10]>> Have they banned the Muslim Brotherhood?

[00:59:12]>> No.

[00:59:13]And whilst I'm here, I want to send a strong supportive message to Sir Mark Roelly.

[00:59:21]We accept your officers need the freedom to take strong action. Do you support ZACK PALANSK'S CRITICISM OF OUR POLICE?

[00:59:36]The constant vilification of Israel has fueled the flames of anti-semitism across our nation. It has seeped into national institutions such as our NHS.

[00:59:51]This past week, there's probably been the most movement the government we have seen from the government we have seen in a long time. But there is much more that needs to be done. The hate we receive from the far-left and Islamist extremists, as well as a different sort of hate from the extreme far right, needs to be called out for what it is.

[01:00:15]But we won't be beaten.

[01:00:24]I'll end by remembering my late grandfather, Latutenant Colonel Mic Cohen, MBE, who lived in Sunderland.

[01:00:34]In 1940, there was a hostel set up for girls from the Kinder Transport.

[01:00:40]The girls told him how Jews were suffering in Europe. And he didn't wait.

[01:00:47]He volunteered as he felt it was his duty to fight for his country and his people.

[01:00:56]8 86 years later, it might look very different, but the time has come again.

[01:01:06]This is the fight of our lives. We have to WE HAVE TO FIGHT FOR THE LONG time we took for granted.

[01:01:16]The right to live in peace, >> the right to just get on with our lives in this country which is our home. THIS IS OUR COUNTRY.

[01:01:29]>> Jews have been here for 370 years AND WE ARE NOT GOING ANYWHERE.

[01:01:38]We are and we always have been proud British Jews and we do not want to leave. WE WILL NOT BE BEATEN. THANK YOU.

[01:01:57]>> WOW. Thank you very much, Saul. And that brings us to the close of this afternoon's rally. And I am so delighted to be able to announce that over 20,000 of you have come here this afternoon.

[01:02:19]This should be a turning point in British life in this country.

[01:02:26]And let me be clear, we will continue this fight.

[01:02:32]We will fight in the corridors of power.

[01:02:36]We will fight on the streets.

[01:02:39]And we will fight wherever anti-Jewish hatred rears its head. You have my word on that.

[01:02:50]>> So, thank you all for joining us.

[01:02:54]I'm afraid my flag I'm not very good on flags but there are lots of people from around the world who have come here to support us and a particular thank you to our Iranian friends.

[01:03:14]You know our thoughts and prayers are with you >> and Okay, very good. Thank you. Thank you.

[01:03:36]Thank you. Okay, so let me let me finally please let me finally thank the police for being here today and making us safe, looking after us so well. There are many, many of them here. Thank you very much. It's hugely appreciated.

[01:03:56]And of course, let me thank our own magnificent CST who do so much to ensure that Jewish life can continue and that we can go about our daily business.

[01:04:12]Let me thank the organizing committee as well. Today's event is a tribute to communal solidarity and unity.

[01:04:23]And let me be clear, unity is our most precious asset in this fight.

[01:04:30]And a final thank you as I'm going to bring them up on stage to our wonderful musicians today, Tarly Cohen, Yuval Hafkin, and Avi Kravis who've done such a wonderful job. And also I need to thank our very own Natasha who have put this event on and she does a wonderful job for us all. Thank you very much everybody.

[01:05:02]Thank you so much. And what an honor it is to be here today. My name is Abby Krauss. Thanks for having me. Join us as we sing.

[01:05:21]God save our gracious king. Long live our noble king. God save the king.

[01:05:38]Can him victorious, happy and glorious, long to reign over us. God save the king.

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