00:00Speaking after what was a very, very significant statement there from Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer,
00:08this may well be a turning point in terms of the way he has now formally reacted to the Golders
00:17-Green terrorist attack,
00:19we can call it a terrorist attack, which obviously saw two people injured but may have been much, much worse
00:26had the apolitics not acted quickly.
00:30It may well be, but Sir Keir felt those boos he received when he visited Golders-Green earlier today.
00:38He went beyond being normal words of anguish and normal words of needing to do something.
00:47He really challenged British society and some of the norms we've accepted for perhaps too long.
00:56He finally, the first Prime Minister I actually can remember, finally called out those who were wearing the paraglider symbol.
01:05The paragliders, of course, was a symbol of those who attacked Israel on October 7th
01:11and started off, really, that Hamas attack on Israel, where a dreadful atrocity started off the Middle East war that
01:21is still raging today
01:23and has had all sorts of knock-on effects all around that region.
01:27He called that out. He said that it's anti-Semitic and those who wear those symbols or put up with
01:35those symbols on marches should be prosecuted.
01:38Similarly, he criticised those who called for globalising the Intifada, again, another anti-Semitic phrase.
01:48Jews would have liked to have maybe heard him talk about those who sing from a river to the sea
01:55as well,
01:56which is another anti-Semitic phrase, and it's essentially about wiping out Jews in the Middle East, in Israel.
02:04He's talking about prosecutions.
02:07We've already had hints that there's going to be clampdowns on the very regular pro-Palestinian marches,
02:13and he didn't quite use his phrase, but it was certainly a kind of enough is enough.
02:20The attacks we've seen on Jews in this country, not just in Golders Green this week,
02:26but the Heaton Square synagogue attack and others.
02:30The fact that children have to have guards in Jewish schools, have to have protection at their schools just to
02:35go to school.
02:36People having to hide their identity, Jewish people hiding their identity when they're going out.
02:42It has been atrocious, and Sakhir really talking about using the full force of the law,
02:50but also challenging society and saying that we, as British people, need to earn the values.
02:57We don't just inherit our values, we need to earn the values that are distinctive to us.
03:04It should be about tolerance, it should be about getting on with one another,
03:08and not these extreme forms of discrimination, which are turning into bloody attacks.
03:18It was a very brave and significant statement from the Prime Minister in many ways.
03:23Brave because of the political, which we saw this morning, the independent current this morning,
03:28Zach Polanski attacking the Labour government over,
03:32suggesting that it might crack down on some of these marches.
03:36Obviously, the Greens are trying to take a lot of Labour votes,
03:40and they're really ruthlessly using the Gaza situation to do that,
03:46taking many Muslim votes, for example, but also other left-wing votes.
03:51No doubt is excusing the extremities that we see sometimes from the state of Israel.
03:58Now, the issue here is that this has been turned on our own domestic Jewish population,
04:06and clearly, Sir Keir has had enough of it,
04:10and it will be interesting to see if his words today translated into tangible actions.
04:17It certainly seemed to suggest that it was.
04:19He was literally talking about prosecutions.
04:21As I say, ahead of a local election where, you know,
04:26the Greens in particular could profit from him doing the right thing,
04:32it was a brave thing to do,
04:35especially as these elections are ones which may determine this Prime Minister's future.
04:40But I don't think it will do him any harm to be seen,
04:45to be done trying to do the right thing, to do the decent thing,
04:49as he did by not going into the war with Iran and the issues as well.
04:55But this is obviously a very live issue at the moment.
05:00This is going to really be running through British politics for some time.
05:05It's not going away whilst there's a war in the Middle East.
05:09This is going to continue.
05:12And perhaps it will be a reminder to Labour MPs
05:16that we need sensible, calm leadership at this time.
05:21And what we saw to say from Keir Starmer certainly offered that.
05:25We will be trying to pick one lap.
05:26We can give you a bit of information about
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