Israel Lobby Enters Palestine Action Case - Then Came Some Jewish Opposition

Right, so two pro-Israel organisations want the Supreme Court to keep Palestine Action banned. One is the Community Security Trust, or CST, a charity providing security and advice to Jewish communities in Britain. The other is the Jewish Leadership Council, or JLC, an umbrella body bringing together major British Jewish organisations. Part of their case is that the ban protects Jewish people. Then you look at who’s sitting outside that same court. Jewish protesters. Descendants of Holocaust survivors. People holding handwritten placards, with police moving in to arrest them. That is a hell of a picture to put alongside the government’s sales pitch isn’t it? I don’t think you’re representing those Jewish people from those Jewish Communities you purport to protect and secure who are outside being led away in cuffs are you? But the opposition to them has reached the courtroom too. A coalition called the Jewish Bloc has also intervened in the appeal, challenging the argument being made in the name of Jewish safety. Very inconvenient for anyone hoping Jewish opinion would turn up with one spokesperson, one position and a nice little endorsement for the Home Office.