Tuesday 13 July 2010

Raining Rabbis

I stepped out onto Kensington High Street at lunchtime and it was raining rabbis - well, they might not have been rabbis, but they were all in that 18th-century black-coat-and-homburg outfit (not a good look - flowing robes, with equally flowing locks and beards, would be much more impressive). They were everywhere, but most concentrated behind a flimsy crash barrier as near as the cops allow to the Israeli Embassy - yes, they were protesting against Israel, which, their placards declared, is not a Jewish state but a Zionist state, is anti-Torah, therefore anti-Jewish, therefore should be done away with. Funny old world.

2 comments:

  1. Akin to taking time off work and joining a right to work march. Since the beginning of the Blair-Brown slump protest marching standards have plummeted, say what you will about Maggie, she did create the highest quality of barricade mounters, even though they were covered in coal dust.

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  2. Agreed Malty. The big one of our time was of course the anti-Iraq London jamboree. I thought at the time, and still do, that they were all having far too much facepaint and drum-banging fun for people demanding the protection of a genocidal dictator.

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