The demonstration in London was like so many others in the past year and a half. A swell of pro-Palestinian demonstrators, tens of thousands of them, banged drums and chanted against Israel. Although this march in early October observed the one-year anniversary of the day Hamas militants broke a cease-fire by invading Israeli territory, the marchers paid no heed to the civilians who were murdered or kidnapped. The U.K. chapter of the world's largest human-rights organization, Amnesty International, echoed the marchers' point of view. The official Amnesty UK account on X promoted a video of an unnamed young female protester clad in a red shirt and a keffiyeh. She peered into the camera and said: 'Don't let anyone tell you this all started on the seventh of October, 2023.' The video showed a demonstrator's placard: It's been 76 years & 364 days'a reference to events that culminated in the founding of Israel in the late 1940s. The implication: Israel, a member state of the United...
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