If courts are soft on pro-Palestinian mobs, where is the legal deterrent?
Duff justice
NOT for the first time we ask: what planet do our judges and magistrates live on?
When the butchers of Hamas struck Israel and killed more Jews in a single day than at any time since the Holocaust, the murderers used paragliders to carry out their deadly invasion.
Three women chose to celebrate that horror by wearing pictures of the gliders during a violent and febrile pro-Palestinian rally, in what was an intentionally inflammatory act.
Yet, instead of putting them behind bars, a judge sitting at Westminster Magistrates Court today decided to let them off with just a conditional discharge.
One of the defendants, Noimutu Olayinka Taiwo, has been freed of the obligation of contributing towards the £400 costs because she is awaiting leave to remain in the UK and therefore cannot claim benefits to pay it off.
She will now join the long list of other foreign criminals on our streets — unlikely ever to be removed.
Cops have been soft enough on the pro-Palestinian mobs.
With the courts joining them, where is the legal deterrent now?
Shame again
FOR those seeking a window into what kind of Government Sir Keir Starmer would lead, Labour’s Rochdale by-election scandal has been utterly depressing.
First the universal backing of a disgraced racist.
Then the dithering, followed by an inevitable U-turn.
It has been an unmitigated personal disaster for the Labour leader.
But this goes deeper than his now-notorious indecisiveness.
What this saga really reveals is that Azhar Ali’s brand of hate speech is so commonplace in certain Labour circles that it went entirely unchallenged at the meeting where he unleashed it.
Why did none of those party activists present speak up?
Clearly, because some Labour figures either cynically believe being virulently anti-Jew and pro-Palestine is a vote-winner.
Or worse, they actually are anti-Semitic.
Labour tonight suspended a second would-be MP who was at the meeting and had called for Israeli soldiers to be locked up.
But Starmer has a long way to go before he can genuinely claim his party has truly changed.
Wright legend
MILLIONS grew up with the familiar ever-present voice of Steve Wright.
It’s hard to think of any other DJ who had so much love for his audience and radio itself.
Heaven will now be rockin’ to some serious jockin’.