Marches and matches 

Published October 10, 2026 10:18am ET | Updated October 10, 2026 10:18am ET



On Oct. 7, 2023, Gazans danced in the streets to celebrate Hamas’s rape, torture, abduction, and murder of Israelis. The last time they were so happy was on Sept. 11, 2001. Meanwhile, thousands of their supporters, a motley crew of angry Muslims and maladjusted leftists, celebrated in the cities of the West. Three years later, on the third anniversary of Oct. 7, the Gazans are a defeated people. Yet, the celebrations continue in our cities.

In London, the Metropolitan Police falsely claimed they lacked the power to prevent a rally from marching across the city center. The Met asked the march’s organizers to choose a less offensive day, but the marchers refused. The Met could have asked the Home Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to ban the event, but it did not believe that the chances of “serious disorder” were high. This assessment was correct. British Jews are civilized and decent people. If we behaved for one day as our enemies have done for years, the police would have banned the march. If a tiny percentage of Britain’s civilized and decent non-Jewish population turned out just once and confronted the Left-Islamist mobs, there would be no more marches.

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