Brighton and Hove Palestine March Says ‘We Don’t Trust Israel Not to Restart the Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing

 Trump’s 'Peace Plan' is Already Unravelling as the Zionists Use Dead Bodies as a Pretext  to Kill More Live Palestinians

To keep that flame alive - Carsie Blanton's beautiful song on the Gaza Flotilla

Ever since  PSC’s national demonstration at the weekend X has been full of Zionist trolls asking why, with the ceasefire, are we still marching. The answer they say is ‘anti-Semitism’.

Of course the obvious answer is that Israel is not to be trusted since there hasn’t been an agreement it has made in Gaza or elsewhere that it has kept. To the Zionists a Ceasefire means you cease, we fire.

⭕️ Earlier today, several suspects were spotted crossing the yellow line and approaching IDF troops in northern Gaza, a clear violation of the agreement.

After multiple attempts to distance them, the suspects refused to comply, prompting troops to open fire to remove the threat.…

— Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) October 14, 2025

The Israeli military gunned down seven unarmed Palestinians a few days ago.  It has increased the number of people it has murdered since then. What we are seeing is a managed genocide as Trump’s great 'peace plan' is being shown for the farce it always was.

Demonstration Against Genocide 12 October 25 Brighton & Hove PSC

This was never a ceasefire because it was never a war. It was a one-sided slaughter of civilians as Israel determined that it would destroy all society in Gaza.

As of yet the bombing hasn’t restarted but that is only a matter of time. Having got its hostages back Israel is determined to renege on the agreement and the client Arab regimes that pressed for the deal will of course go along with whatever further atrocities Israel commits because the alternative – turning off the oil – would mean coming into conflict with their ally, the United States.

On the pretext that Hamas hasn’t returned all the bodies of their hostages Israel has announced that it is cutting aid flowing into Gaza by half and possibly more. Israel has also refused the request of Turkey to bring in heavy lifting equipment in order to try and retrieve the bodies beneath the rubble demonstrating that Israel's concern is to find a pretext to go back and finish the job. At the same time as Israel restricts the flow of aid and food it says it isn’t starving the population!

It is becoming increasingly obvious that Israel is looking a way out of the temporary lull in fighting that Trump strong-armed them into. That is why it would be foolish for the Palestine solidarity movement to stand down. On the contrary we need to step up our activity.

Last Sunday about 2,000 people took to the streets with banners in Brighton marching from the Level to the Hove Lawns. Whereas previously we have had a few supporters of Jews and Christians 4 Genocide heckle us on Sunday there were no Zios in evidence.

However it is clear that whatever else it is going to do, the so-called ceasefire is not going to bring peace. It is a racing certainty that the reason why the neo-Nazis in Israel’s  cabinet didn’t resign is because they were reassured that hostilities would be soon resuming.

Ethnic cleansing is not off the agenda even if it has been put on hold for the moment.  Zionism is still seeking to colonise Gaza as part of the Greater Israel.

The Arab regimes behind the plan have continued to play their treacherous role. Whilst opposing Israel’s genocide officially, behind the scenes it is a different story.

The Washington Post reported on Saturday that ‘Even as key Arab states condemned the war in the Gaza Strip, they quietly expanded security cooperation with the Israeli military, leaked U.S. documents reveal.’

Bob Woodward, the veteran American reporter who broke the Watergate scandal revealed in his book ‘The War’ that

the stance of countries like Egypt, Jordan, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia was not one of silence or abandonment of the people of Gaza, as was previously believed. Instead, the details presented in the book suggest that the governments of these countries are complicit in the destruction of the Palestinians, just like Israel

Based on transcripts of hundreds of hours of secret conversations that Woodward conducted with numerous White House officials

The reader is astonished by the agreement of Arab leaders on the necessity of waging war on Hamas and eliminating it, coupled with their complete indifference to the scale of Palestinian bloodshed.

The Arab regimes today are the junior partners of both Israel and the United States in the genocide in Gaza. It is clear that the road to Jerusalem passes through Riyad, Amman, Cairo, Doha and Damascus amongst other Arab capitals. There is no act of treachery that Sisi, King Hussein, MBC and the other scoundrels are not capable of.

This also means that the Palestine solidarity movement cannot remain indifferent to the Arab regimes collaboration with Israel.

Having got back its hostages Israel is now preparing for a new phase in the war on Gaza. Hamas was probably given assurances by Trump and his emissaries that Israel would be forbidden from finding a loophole in the agreement. If so they are going to be bitterly disappointed. All the indications are that Israel is straining at the leash like the mad dog that it is.

Not only should BDS be extended and widened but it is incumbent on workers to emulate the example of Italian workers who staged a general strike against the Genocide.

British trade unions leaders, despite making sympathetic noises, have done absolutely nothing to increase the pressure on the Zionists. PSC’s trade union strategy, which was seen as one of its more successful initiatives is shown to be a sham. Resolutions are passed which go no further than the nearest filing cabinet.

The leaders of two of Britain’s biggest trade unions, the GMB and Unite, are open Zionists and have done nothing whatsoever to give support to the Palestinians. Unite passed a strong Executive statement that nonetheless had caveats enabling Sharon Graham to continue doing nothing.

Given that Unite has a strong membership both amongst arms workers and dockers, the refusal to extend any solidarity to the Palestinians is particularly disgraceful.

We also need to extend and sharpen our political critique of Zionism.

Bridget Phillipson - using 'antisemitism' to sanitize genocide

Bridget Philipson, who is likely to be the next Deputy Leader of the Labour Party, in conjunction with the corrupt Priti Patel is already stepping up the ‘anti-Semitism’ attacks. We are told that Jewish students are fearful of revealing their identity on campus.

There is also the confected ‘anti-Semitism’ outrage about the banning of Tel Aviv Maccabi fans from a game with Aston Villa. None of the mainstream media, still less the BBC has told the true story of how the same Maccabi fans attacked Arab taxi drivers in Amsterdam earlier this year chanting ‘death to the Arabs’ and ‘there’s no school in Gaza because there are no children left.’ Since Starmer is so anxious to see the Maccabi fans in England one can only assume that this political misfit has no problem with these slogans.

It is strange how bourgeois politicians are so concerned about non-existent anti-Semitism at the same time as they have no problem demonising asylum seekers and Muslims. In the United States the only form of anti-racism that Donald Trump is concerned with is ‘anti-Semitism’. Here in this country the Home Office is gifting £1m to the pro-Israel Union of Jewish Students. It is not Zionist Jewish students who are under attack but anti-Zionist Jewish students.

It should be clear beyond doubt that Jews have become the alibi and pretext for support for Zionism and the Israeli state. They are not the cause of that support but they are the reason that Western leaders give for supporting Israel’s genocide.

Of course we should not in any way excuse the stupidity and self-inflicted victimisation complex of British and other Jews. However it is as well to focus on the real reason for imperialist support for Israel not the imperialist decoy.

See The billionaire class want you thinking Israel controls the West.

US Threatens Hamas and Israel Violates the Gaza Ceasefire: Will It Soon Collapse? and Alijah Magnier’s From the Knesset to Sharm el-Sheikh: How the US President offered Netanyahu a way out, Complicity of Arab Regimes in the Destruction of the Palestinians