From first-hand experience I can say pro-Palestinian marchers are harmless - Yorkshire Post Letters

On Saturday January 13, 2024, I attended a meeting of Democrats Abroad in central London. I hoped to persuade those present that they needed a younger nominee for the Presidency of the USA than Joe Biden.

For the occasion I wore a suit. I was wearing a red and white striped shirt and a blue tie with white stars on it. I was wearing the stars and stripes.

After the meeting at around 12 noon I walked out into Whitehall to travel up to Euston Road and catch a train home. Unbeknown to me, the pro-Palestinian march had just finished. There were many people in Whitehall. I noticed some Orthodox Jews. Several police officers gave me strange looks as I passed by. A stallholder selling Palestinian flags noticed me. There was not a cross word from anyone. Three big guys there were selling The Morning Star. One suddenly yelled `Have you seen what that guy is wearing?` He pointed at me. I then remembered what I was wearing.

I did feel like a hapless gazelle that had wandered into a pride of lions but I can report I was wholly unmolested. No police officer present told me to take my tie off, and my progress up Whitehall was unimpeded. I met a granny from Northallerton on the train home.

She asked if my suit was tailor made and where I'd bought it? I told her where I had been and she told me she had just been on the Pro-Palestinian march. These people are harmless.