Guy Smith

Today is the seventh of October. A day when innocent men, women and children were murdered. Families were destroyed. Young people were slaughtered. People were dragged from their homes and taken. As an Englishman, I believe in freedom of speech, the right to protest and the right to disagree. But freedom also demands conscience. There are 365 days in the year. Why choose this one? Why march on the anniversary of a massacre, while Jewish families remember their dead? We should not be frightened to say: this is wrong. We will oppose the glorification of terrorism and we will never accept the argument that the murder of Jewish men, women or children somehow matters less because of politics. It is decency against hatred. October the seventh should be a day to remember the dead and never a day to celebrate their killers.