Boris Johnson has slammed plans to hold a pro-Palestine march on next Saturday’s Remembrance Day, describing the now-weekly protests as “anti-Semitic”.
Speaking to his new bosses at GB News, the form premier told protestors: “They should remember that Remembrance Sunday is there very largely to commemorate the many, many people in our country, but also across the Commonwealth, who fought against Nazism and fascism.
“And I think for them to go out and demonstrate in favour of an anti-semitic pogrom – which is what they would be doing – is obscene.”
Protestors are organising a “million-strong” march in London on Saturday 11, which will clash with the day of remembrance.
The police have been warned about letting the protest go ahead, with Deputy PM Oliver Dowden saying he has “grave concerns”.
Grant Shapps added: “Any disruption of Remembrance weekend would be completely unacceptable.”
Speaking from Israel, Boris Johnson also warned that a two-state solution is largely impossible while Hamas still have power in Gaza.
He said: “I certainly want to see a two-state solution. I want to see that somehow or other that has got to be achieved.
“I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that the Israelis can have on their doorstep an armed state with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence run by Hamas. Absolutely not.
“There is just no way that is going to happen. That’s off the agenda. So there will have to be some other solution and there are many different permutations, but that’s where it will end up.”
Grant Shapps added: “Any disruption of Remembrance weekend would be completely unacceptable.”
Speaking from Israel, Boris Johnson also warned that a two-state solution is largely impossible while Hamas still have power in Gaza.
“I certainly want to see a two-state solution. I want to see that somehow or other that has got to be achieved.
“I don’t think it’s reasonable to expect that the Israelis can have on their doorstep an armed state with a monopoly on the legitimate use of violence run by Hamas. Absolutely not.
“There is just no way that is going to happen. That’s off the agenda. So there will have to be some other solution and there are many different permutations, but that’s where it will end up.”
The former Prime Minister spent yesterday touring southern Israel and meeting soldiers from the Israeli Defence Force in a show of “solidarity”.
The PM toured villages massacred by Hamas’s October 7 “pogrom”, speaking about the “sadism” he’d seen first-hand.
He said: “This was an orgy of brutality and torture against innocent people, who were chased around the rooms in their houses and shot.
“Now, there’s a difference between that and what the Israeli soldiers are trying to do in Gaza.
“What the international community needs to remember is the difference between what Israel experienced, the terrorist attack, and what they’re trying to do now.
“What they’re trying to do now is make sure that never happens again.”
He visited in partnership with ex-Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, where he met British soldiers enlisted with the IDF.
