“President” Isaac Herzog last night entered his hotel – the Intercontinental Park Lane – through a service door and kitchens.
He did not transit any of the public areas of the hotel, where I was stationed disguised as an elderly Scottish drunk at the bar. I carried out this role with great dedication. 
It also allowed me to wander around the basement areas as a well-spoken elderly Scottish gentleman, slightly befuddled and looking for the toilet. Finding no end of lurking policemen – who were all very helpful – I was able to confirm this was indeed where Herzog was staying and a demonstration was whistled up.
Watch| Activists protested in front of the hotel where Israeli President Isaac Herzog is staying in London, demanding his arrest for his role in crimes against the Palestinian people.#Israel pic.twitter.com/p3dznsgcvm
— Al-Jarmaq News (@Aljarmaqnetnews) September 10, 2025
The demonstration was very loud and effective inside the hotel and definitely well worth doing again. The police attempted to move the demonstration away under the Public Order Act.
Greta Thunberg was acquitted last year in exactly these circumstances when charged for protesting outside this exact same hotel. The magistrate ruled that police instructions to move on were “unlawful”. That is worth remembering for the next couple of nights.
I had dashed down from Edinburgh, literally just dropping everything and heading to the station, on hearing that Herzog’s visit was starting a couple of days earlier than expected. I attended the PSC demonstration outside Downing St. Frankly it was disappointingly small – not much more than one person for every mile I had covered to get there.
The change of date, short notice and a tube strike all contributed, but I do hope protest will grow during Herzog’s three day visit. Be inspired by this precedent:
In 1848-9, Hapsburg General Julius von Haynau crushed uprisings in Hungary and in Brescia with extreme force. In Brescia about 1,000 were killed, both revolutionaries and civilians, including women and children, with widespread rape, floggings and executions.
In Hungary about 2,000 revolutionaries were killed across four “battles” and a slightly larger number of civilians were massacred, again with widespread rape, flogging and looting.
In 1850 Haynau was on a private visit to London and touring the Barclay and Perkins brewery in Southwark. He was recognised by some draymen who pelted him with refuse and chased him from the brewery, where a larger crowd joined in.
Eventually Haynau took refuge in the George Inn on Borough High Street, where he hid either in a waste bin or under a bed (accounts differ). Eventually he was rescued by the police but nobody was arrested.
Generations of schoolchildren – myself included – were taught that the Haynau incident was something to be proud of and an example of how foreign “tyrants” should be treated in London. The government of Prime Minister Lord John Russell – grandfather of Bertrand Russell – refused to prosecute the draymen, to the fury of the Austrian government.
Herzog is of course actively participating in a Genocide far worse than anything Haynau did, and was directly quoted by the ICJ as indicating intent of genocide.
Starmer is meeting Herzog today for the second time since the ICJ cited Herzog as showing intent of Genocide, and since Herzog signed bombs to drop on Gaza.
There is no diplomacy being pursued on this visit. Nor was it initiated by Starmer. It is the Israelis emphasising their control of the British Establishment, and demonstrating that they can do what they wish – commit genocide, bomb Qatar, bomb Tunisia, and much more. It is simply a visit to underline who is the boss, and that we can do nothing about it.
Let us summon the symbol of the draymen of the Barclay and Perkins brewery. It is the people, not Starmer and his corrupt, grasping clowns, who embody moral conscience.
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Interesting development: the firefighters’ trade union is calling for Starmer to cancel Trump’s state visit:
https://www.fbu.org.uk/news/2025/09/09/cancel-trump-visit-say-firefighters-fire-service-asked-deploy-scant-resources
This is in relation to their being asked to deploy at Chequers when the service is reeling from cuts. Response times are longer than they were 30 years ago.
Steve Wright, Fire Brigades Union general secretary said:
“Donald trump is toxic, authoritarian billionaire who has waged a war on workers and the living standards of ordinary Americans, and enacted a brutal, racist anti-migrant policy at odds with basic humanitarian values.
Rolling out the red carpet for him with an unprecedented second state visit was always a shocking move for a Labour government. Now we learn that fire cover may be compromised to accommodate it. This could hamper response times and public safety.
Keir Starmer must cancel this state visit.”
Great to see organised workers extend the field of struggle, express international solidarity, and attack one of their enemy’s weak spots. Perhaps firefighters can turn their backs (literally) on Trump, the “king”, and Starmer?
Maybe Herzog is here to tell Charles to bump off another UN SG? Like mother like son.
Good point about the number being too few. We should be taking more about effective actions that have a real deep memorable effect of such war criminals when they visit. The howling is the only way they feel the way the people perceive them. Everyone present will remember these moments. So what’s better – 100,000 people on a national demo costing £30k to set up, or adhoc 100,000 people in front of the door ways and walk paths 10 minutes at a time, challengeing with real pressure to have a moving effect for all.
Just watched an interview on sky with government representative on the sacking of Mandelson with a lot of unchallenged guff about Keir Starrmer acting on new evidence namely emails. There have been photos of Mandelson and Epstein around for years. Of course the UK security service would have no knowledge as they did not about Prince Andrew and Epstein , They also somehow did not vet Jimmy Savile and his close relationship with the Royals and Margaret Thatcher. They did manage to bust some people who were going to protest at Margaret Thatcher funeral they did stop ding dong the witch is dead getting to number one .
“they did stop ding dong the witch is dead getting to number one .”
but not in Scotland.
Brian Sides
Speaking of Princes – Prince Harry is in Ukraine right now cavorting with the Neo-Nazi’s and their dictator Zelensky, Harry also did a bit of showboating in Afghanistan as well, as a pretendy soldier.
Starmer was installed by Mandy/Campbell ZioFascist Masters.
Of course he didn’t choose who was sent to DC as he doesn’t get to choose which wars to fight and what weapons and support to rubber stamp.
He has been long bought and like the whole NuLabourInc controlled PLP cabinet and NEC it’s ziofascist imperilism First uber alles!
They are on record pledging allegiance to the Entity. Across every European state too – the odious Nazio Analretard 360 as leaderine in the UN! Who had made a rousing Hitlerite speech about there being no civilian targets in Gaza! And plain up lies about having said so. The Chutzpah. Oh the dead dead UN – it is not resting it has shuffled off this mortal coil…
All such Western politicians are chosen and groomed from an early age.
A generation raised to achieve the victory their grandparents failed to deliver with their naziofascism last century. And centuries before.
They too have failed! And some are wavered by about the futility of carrying on.
Their string puller enforcer generals have come to town, to retain control with a public execution of one of their minion generals – as Napoleon said ‘pour encourager les autres’.
Looks like ‘Captain’ Kirk was going off piste and pied pipering his young away from the ziofascist choices for the next potus.
(MoA down again – may have to post a longer ponder on that neo-jfk execution, here..)
There was also a concerted effort by both wings of the British media to get Starmer into No 10, not least because they knew Mandleson and the Labour hard Right vouched for him.
Sir Keir is the media’s man, which is why they’re still covering for him even in these circumstances and despite his record unpopularity. However, if he does eventually have to go, despite all their support, they will be content if he is replaced by Mandleson protege Wes Streeting.
The media do what they’re told. Nobody is the media’s man or woman. But agreed that Mandelson may have played a major role in putting Genocide Starmer into No.10. Starmer is only a little brighter than Lammy and the appointment of Mandelson as liaison with the imperial power (“ambassador”) was probably a more important post-election change than Starmer replacing Sunak.
There’s probably some blatant crookery to come out about Starmer. How does someone so stupid become chief prosecutor? I will start looking at him. Any Margaret Hodge connection? Who are his friends? Regional connections? City or property or royal figures? Who did he help as DPP? I hope this blog can help bring this genocidal “Israel do have that right” bastard down.
Starmer has just received his new orders after a briefing from his paymaster.
“Isaac Herzog was greeted outside Number 10, where he was said to be on a mission to stop the UK from recognising a Palestinian state.” AKA interfering in UK government policy.
https://www.declassifieduk.org/genocide-questions-avoided-as-starmer-meets-israeli-president/
More likely, re: Mandelson, perhaps, the US deep state came calling, and found a way to undermine Starmer, New Labour and Trump in one sacking. It was so obvious that the Epstein connection would come back to haunt the appointment that it’s hard not to believe that that wasn’t the intention from the start.
“Charlie Kirk’s assassin was turned in to the police headquarters by his own father – Tyler Robinson, the assassin of Charlie Kirk, was photographed wearing a Trump costume for Halloween in 2017.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1966525281570607360#m
Netanyahu said after Kirk’s passing that he talked to Kirk just weeks back and that he had invited him to Israel. Netanyahu’s sudden eagerness to embrace Kirk makes perfect sense when one read the following:
Haaretz: “Hoping to Win Back Young Republican Support, Israel Invites MAGA Influencers
Israel’s Foreign Ministry has funneled tens of thousands of dollars for about a dozen influencers to visit Israel through Israel365, a pro-settlement organization attempting to bolster evangelical support for the Jewish State”
https://archive.is/8v9zG
Haaretz: “Foreign Ministry to Fund Israel Tour for MAGA, America First pro-Trump Influencers
The initiative will bring 16 U.S.-based influencers under the age of 30, each with hundreds of thousands to millions of followers, to counter what the ministry sees as a decline in pro-Israel sentiment among younger Americans”
https://archive.is/yxEm9
And past couple of months Netanyahu have also been on multiple american right-wing podcasts, spreading his typical hasbara.
Modern-day Hitler’: Netanyahu Slammed by the Right for Podcast Appearance Full of Whoppers
Netanyahu’s appearance on the Nelk Boys’ far-right podcast – and their softball questions for the PM amid mass starvation in Gaza – caused outrage among leftists and the MAGA-loving manosphere alike
https://archive.is/3MoeX
Funny how this apparent influence campaign by Israel could go on right in the open, where are the “Russia meddle in our affairs”-crowd now huh?
Yeah Kirk – and odious character – was beginning to speak out against Israel – Ben Shapiro a die-hard Zionist will take over the running of the Turning Point Organisation, as for the shooter for me he’s a patsy – for me Kirk was removed because he began asking awkward questions about Israel.
Trump will award Kirk – some sort of US presidential medal posthumously in Kirk’s home state.
The shooter, a 22 year old gun nut, is just another ‘Manchurian Candidate ‘ served up by the poison spewing MSM. If guns were more easily available in the UK we’d have the same issues.
Kirk allegedly said that having the second amendment was worth a few gun deaths…
Liberals may be about to stop singing “Bella ciao”.
Who knows – maybe it’s about to become an emblem for the most clued-up anti-fascists worldwide.
And given new shades of meaning too, as in “BYE-BYE, fascist!”
All the American liberals (and even British libs!) crying over Kirk is a picture perfect reminder that liberals are more likely to mourn and venerate fascists than to oppose them.
Scratch a liberal, a fascist bleeds. Scratch a fascist, a liberal cries.
They will never be reliable antifascists.
Beware of psy-ops. If people come to conclusions so quickly, I assume they haven’t been reading the ‘alternative media’ much of the time since 2020. Note also what H L Mencken wrote about such things about 100 years ago.
Plus ca change.
Being older than Craig Murray, I’d sum it up thus: The older I get, the less I know.
How can a Palestinian state come about whilst the Zionists are committing genocide, and how can it be possible to create a Palestinian state, whilst Israel still exists Israel must be dismantled first.
” The United Nations has voted 142–10 in favor of endorsing the “New York Declaration” which calls for the establishment of a State of Palestine, with the few countries who voted against the measure including Argentina, Hungary, Israel, and the United States.
Meanwhile the supposed close allies of Israel namely India & Azerbaijan voted in favor of creating a Palestinian state.”
https://nitter.poast.org/MonitorX99800/status/1966533562427195606#m
There needs to be recognition of a Hamas-led government, and recognition that “the State of Israel” is a colonial entity. It may surprise some people to know that the UN is supposed to support an end to colonialism.
Dictating to an oppressed people which parties they may or may not choose to elect as a condition of a future state? And the ‘but Israel won’t tolerate it’ line doesn’t hold as it’s supposed to be a truly independent or autonomous state. Imagine if the ANC being excluded from holding office had been part of any deal on ending apartheid.
Not that a Palestinian state looks at all likely. In a sign of their bad faith, the Trump administration apparently agreed to Israel’s recent bombing of the Palestinian negotiating team in Doha, Qatar. The damage that attack has done to Gulf State and Arab confidence in the US as their protector is immense, it cannot be overstated. These Gulf monarchies assumed they had the same protections as London, Paris or New York from Israeli aggression. The place that Israel bombed isn’t far from a palace that Trump visited on his recent trip and Qatar hosts the US Al Udeid airbase. Qatari PM, Al Thani looked totally humiliated, and looking weak in a dictatorship is obviously the worst look possible. Having 15 Israeli planes drop ten bombs plus drones attacking, and not knowing in advance, has made them look vulnerable and question their fundamental assumptions about their relationship with the US. I assumed complicity from these States, but that isn’t necessarily the case; there’s a detailed write-up here, explaining the lack of air defences(Patriots); scrambling of jets in response etc : https://defencesecurityasia.com/en/israel-airstrike-doha-qatar-air-defence-failure/
Riyadh, Doha; Abu Dhabi, Rabat,Cairo, nowhere is safe from Israeli war planes and their bombs, missiles and drones. Israel says it will go anywhere it so pleases in pursuit of its enemies. And the US seems fine with that. It looks like the UK is operating a public policy and an entirely different private policy.
I guess the UK is simply in too deep with the US and NATO, to escape privately supporting this madness.
For example, from the detailed write-up, the much vaunted, advanced electronic warfare(EW) system they use on their F-35I “Adir” planes are BAE Systems AN/ASQ-239 electronic warfare countermeasure system. Israel has been given the go-ahead to modify BAE System’s electronic warfare suite with a unique alternative, tailor-made to Israeli specifications.
The protection that all of those Brittish installed monarchs and coup installed dictators are paying the US for isn’t protection for their people though, it is protection FROM their people. The US has intelligence embedded in their militaries and on their streets to head off any violent attempts at democracy.
There was a Palestinian state before 1948, no-one needs to create another one. The UN needs to vote for the removal of Israel from Palestine, any Jews who want to live in Palestine should be able to apply for a Palestinian visa/passport.
Very good point.
The British were the ones who caved in and gave Palestine to the current occupiers. Britain has been under control for a long time.
Now, here are what people who act are doing:
The Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF)::
https://globalsumudflotilla.org/
https://t.me/s/globalsumudflotilla
The Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) has set sail from Tunisia in an effort to challenge Israel’s blockade of Gaza and provide humanitarian assistance to the besieged territory.
The flotilla, consisting of over 40 ships with more than 800 activists from 44 countries, departed the Tunisian port of Bizerte on Saturday.
Volunteers were seen in online footage loading supplies onto the vessels before departure.
The GSF is carrying food and medical aid, with organizers stressing that the flotilla’s mission is to break the Israeli siege and establish a humanitarian corridor into the blockaded territory.
And remember it is open to anyone who want to act and do something against the genocide.
Yes that endless chatter from the West about the “two state solution” is just ridiculous and have become some empty shell virtue signalling, how could there be a palestinian state when israel have close to half a million settlers in the West Bank? How could there be a palestinian state when the West do not even dare to put sanctions on these settlers?
Just the other day Netanyahu boastfully said there will never be a palestinian state
“Israel’s Netanyahu says ‘there will be no Palestinian state’”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/11/israels-netanyahu-says-there-will-be-no-palestinian-state
As if the utterly oppressed and starving Palestinians didn’t have enough to contend with, this just adds to their woes.
“A new investigation has revealed that Gaza aid sites, where desperate Palestinians line up for food, are being secured by members of a US biker gang notorious for anti-Islam hate. The Infidels Motorcycle Club, founded by US Iraq war veterans and openly identifying as ‘modern Crusaders’, has been contracted to run armed security at these aid distribution points.
BBC News confirms the identities of 10 members of the Infidels Motorcycle Club working in Gaza for UG Solutions and reveals that seven members of the biker gang are in senior positions.
These are the very places where hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in chaos and gunfire while trying to get food for their families. Instead of protection, Gaza is being handed over to men who have a long history of anti-Muslim rhetoric, hosting hate speech online, and even mocking Ramadan with pig roasts ‘in defiance’ of Islam.
This is not humanitarian aid. This is humiliation, militarization, and dehumanization disguised as charity.”
source BBC.
https://nitter.poast.org/WearThePeaceCo/status/1966204131833516284#m
Mass detentions in Tulkarem on the West Bank today. Time to bury Fatah or at least its political structure? There needs to be coordinated resistance in Gaza, the West Bank, Quds, and the territories occupied in 1948 – this is obvious. Probably under Hamas leadership but not their domination and certainly secular. No internal conflict, but Abbas should be thanked for his service and respectfully asked to retire, because it is abundantly clear that his way is not the way.
The evil b*stard Herzog – doesn’t look a happy bunny when Declassified asks him if he’s a war criminal, so that other evil b*stard Starmer, rushes out of Ten Downing street to shake his hand – birds of feather as so forth.
Watch the 90 odd seconds video.
https://nitter.poast.org/declassifiedUK/status/1965862506175562239#m
That guy from Declassified is superb. Absolutely on the ball. I doubt his clearance will last long.
Declassified has been banned from attending the London arms fair.
“It marks the first time Declassified has been denied media accreditation, having attended the last two DSEI events”
https://www.declassifieduk.org/declassified-barred-from-london-arms-fair-as-israeli-weapons-dealers-arrive/
Good news apparently now no one in Palestine is starving to death or being shot while trying to get food or being forced to evacuate
every thing is ok. This must be so or else our fair and balanced media would be reporting other wise. There was a brief period when these things must have been happening as there was some national coverage of such stories. Even forcing some UK politicians to say this really is rather bad and something must be done about it some time in the future. But know they do not need to worry about this as the news cycle has moved on and there are other things happening in the world . Some in in the USA got shot , Mandelson was sacked , a dog bit a man.
With “President” Isaac Herzog visiting the UK Prime minister one would think this might be a good time to report what might be happening in Palestine. But as the saying goes out of sight is out of mind and the heart does not grieve over what the eye does not see.
Since you’ve mentioned 1848-50, Palmerston cheered when he learned that Russian troops entered Wallachia in 1848, for he knew that this was the shortest route into Hungary. And he was correct, for in 1849 General Lueders’ 5th Corps moved from Wallachia into Transylvania to take part in the suppression of the Hungarian rebelion.
Tzar Nickolas I was dumb enough to help the Austrians because he feared the rebellion could spread into Russia. He got the taste of Austrian’s “gratitude” in the Crimean War that eventually killed him. Had he been smarter, he’d help the Hungarians and thus got rid of the state that till the end of the XIX century had been used by the Britts to counterbalance Russian power in Europe, and mortal combat with which eventually killed both empires.
As for the British liberals, maybe they unleashed their wrath on this poor sod von Haynau, but their liberal hearts knew too well where the money were. The Crimean War, fought for the British and French financial and trade interests in Ottoman Empire, delayed the liberation of the Balkan Slavs from the Ottoman rule by at least 25 years, but no liberal hearts in GB bled for them. The war began with an enthusiastic support of the nation. It was only later, when the war dragged on and the losses mounted, that the public turned indifferent and became disillusioned.
Re Mr Herzog, the president of Israel is largerly a ceremonial figure who decides nothing. All they do is trying to get into their secretaries’ pants.
Then he has ceremoniously been promoting genocide and has no business in the UK, that is the BBCs job
Measures to end the genocide and undue Zionist influence in the West
1/ Demand that foreign agents disguised as “associations” like AIPAC, ADL, betar (a terrorist group), and all other Zionist organizations, register as foreign agents.
The aforementioned foreign agents operate in the USA but the same is applicable to all western nations where such lobbies have infiltrated and corrupted governments and civil societies.
2/ Tax all foreign agents at a minimum of 30% (like in: El Salvador) rate and forbid any subsidies, grants or donations from any public organization and taxpayer money.
3/ Forbid any taxpayer gift destined to buy weapons, be involved in war crimes , ethnic cleansing or genocide to any country worldwide unless it is approved by a majority of voters during a referendum.
4/ End political funding by private entities for presidential or any other elections. No organization, individual or billionaire donor shall again dictate the policy of this country or buy politicians.
5/ Apply strict quotas in public offices to end the abnormal over-representation of very small minority groups which have infiltrated and grabbed all levels of government and public offices.
A tiny group that does represent only 1 to 3% of the population shall not have an over representation in government, institutions, media or businesses, especially when this tiny minority serves the interest of a foreign entity instead of those of the country it is supposed to represent.
6/ Bar from public office anyone who is part of a secret society, a lobby, club, think tank, group or any organization that is serving the interest of foreign entities, globalist agendas, corporations or lobbies. It includes but is not limited to: freemasonry, Bilderberg, Council of Foreign relations, the WEF and of course revolving door creatures who push legislations that favor their former employers.
7/ End the “Fed” and print our own money as JFK executive order had initiated and would have validated if he hadn’t been murdered.
8/ Institute the practice of referendums instead of presidential orders that are nothing but diktats by a tyrant. The president is not and shall not be a king, and as the corruption of institutions has become so blatant, that changes are needed.
As of 13:26 16 Sept, neither Kallas nor von der Leyen has said a thing about the detailed 72-page report, from the UN, which concludes that Israel is committing genocide as defined by the 1948 Genocide Convention and is waging its campaign with “intent” – the most difficult thing to prove. Really shows the EU’s selective outrage and actions, when it comes to criticism and sanctions.
And note how BBC presenters always include in their reports Israel’s response, as if validating those criticisms. They don’t give this privilege to any other country that stands accused. If they report on Ukraine, then don’t give a long wordy response issued by the Kremlin countering any claims.
I quite agree with the overall message of your post. The only thing that I find it hard to believe in your reporting is that you could possibly pull off a plausible impersonation of ‘an elderly Scottish drunk at the bar’ or ‘a well-spoken elderly Scottish gentleman’. 🙂
I’m sorry, I hope you take no offence. I quite like your accent, but I’m inclined to think that you may well be the only Scottish nationalist in the world that has such an accent.