By James Sorene

In the heated debate about whether students should have protested against Israel on the anniversary of the horrific events of 7 October, one question hasn’t been asked. What do they chant on these marches, and what does it mean?

I spent two hours yesterday with the student protest listening carefully as it moved across Central London. There was no violence, but their chants were all about violence:

There is only one solution, intifada revolution

Long live the Intifada

Zionism shut it down

Zionists Zionists go back home

Settlers settlers go back home. Palestine is not your home

These were repeated for two hours through megaphones and echoed by the 200 marchers, many wearing black and white keffiyes to disguise their faces.

In the opening speeches at King's College, there was no mention of the Gaza ceasefire talks, no calls for a ceasefire, and no mention of a two-state solution. The crowd was urged to continue the fight for Palestine by any means necessary.

The word........

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