Support Demo for People of Egypt

Icon_article Star-blue1 Published: February 04, 2011 23:48 by Tash [Alan Lodge] |

Tagged as: egypt nottingham repression
Neighbourhoods: market nottingham square

5.00pm 4th February

Folks gathered outside the Council House in the Market Square in support of People of Egypt.

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Over 100 folks gathered outside the Council House in the Market Square in support of People of Egypt.  A few speeches and a march around the Market Square, all got together at very short notice.  Developments in Egypt happening by the hour  presently. 

 

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ALAN LODGE 
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Comments

What the...

Comment Published: February 05, 2011 18:22 by Pingu

Great to see this solidarity demo happened. I don't pretend to know anything about Egypt (apart from the mainstream discourse), but my attitude towards the whole situation in North Africa can be summed up with George Orwell's words:
"I have no particular love for the idealized 'worker' as he [she] appears in the bourgeois Communist's mind, but when I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his [her] natural enemy, the policeman [-woman], I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."
However I was shocked to see some people (e.g. on the third image) holding a picture of Mubarak with a Star of David on his forehead, titled 'Go to Hell'.
This kind of stuff is no critique of the authoritarian regime in Egypt; it is no critique of religion or religious symbols and also no critique of the policies of the state of Israel. This is nothing but plain and simple anti-Semitism, as ignorant and disgusting as ever.
And the worst is that apparently nobody did anything about it.
Fight fascism, fight anti-Semitism!

Agree

Comment Published: February 06, 2011 10:57 by V For Victory

Weirdly, despite being there I didn't notice that placard. Not sure how or why, possibly because it was dark.

While I assume it was a particularly ham fisted attempt to critique Mubarak's policy vis-a-vis Israel, I agree that this sort of use of the Star of David should be challenged. Even if not actually anti-Semitic in intention, it creates an environment in which anti-Semites can all too easily weasel their way into the discourse.