A demonstration has been taking place in Rome today against the declaration of intent by the Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to ‘wipe Israel off the map’. Ha’aretz reports that it is being backed by politicians from left and right (although the left is split – of course). The demo is reaffirming Israel’s right to exist -- prompting Iran, incredibly, to complain through diplomatic channels! Similar demonstrations have been held in France (even), Vienna, Austria, and Budapest, Hungary, where protestors ‘drew up signs that read “Israel today, Europe tomorrow?”’ Indeed.

The one country conspicuous by the absence of any similar demonstration on its streets reaffirming the right of Israel to exist (and how appalling that this should be necessary at all) is of course Britain. Instead, two days after Ahmadinejad’s genocidal outburst thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of London -- to demand that Israel be wiped off the map.

As RealityGaps has observed, this was a pro-terrorism march:

Looking through the video footage the rally comes off as an incredibly pro-terrorism march, with the slogans moving between the classic ‘Palestine will be free... from the river to the sea’ to the more recent ‘Zionism...Terrorism’ (repeat ad infinitum at top of voice). What was more surprising was the amount of Islamic chanting going on at the rally, about one in five chants was an ‘Allah Akbar’ or a ‘La’ila’lail’Allah’. These were often followed by ‘We are all Hezbollah’ chants and a couple of token anti-war slogans.

And yet all the people who had expressed revulsion shock and outrage two days before at the outburst from Iran suddenly lost their voice when confronted not merely by calls from British jihadists and fellow-travelling leftists for Israel’s annihilation, but the spectacle of supporters of Iran’s terrorist army on the streets of London calling for the destruction of a lawfully constituted, democratic country.