Extremism is on the march: Another annual Al Quads Day in London

Today saw the annual Al Quds Day march in London and other cities in the UK and abroad.

The Al Quds Day march in the UK is convened by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC), a controversial charity best known for these Al Quds Day events, which in the past have featured IHRC-badged placards that read “We are all Hizballah”. Hizballah is an antisemitic genocidal terror organisation.

As ever, our Demonstration and Events Monitoring Unit was present at today’s march.

A spokesperson for Campaign Against Antisemitism said: “In the past, the Al Quds Day march has been an annual display of support for the murderous theocracy in Iran and its client terror groups like Hizballah. Some cities have banned the march altogether. Since we and others secured the proscription of Hizballah in the UK, the organisers and marchers have had to rethink some of their paraphernalia.

“Sunday’s Al Quds Day march featured what we have all come to expect in our nation’s capital at the weekend: support for violent terrorism and calls for the destruction of the Jewish state. Extremism is on the march in London, and it is a devastating indictment of our political class and of the state of our criminal justice system that they simply do not seem to care.”