'Your Party' Plans Pro-Palestine March Amid Political Firestorm
(By Votes & Quotes – where politics meets performance)
Jeremy Corbyn's new political project, Your Party, is already causing tremors across Westminster. Barely months after launch, it's now plotting a pro-Palestine rally to coincide with the two-year anniversary of Hamas's October 7 attacks — a move guaranteed to spark controversy and headlines in equal measure.
The announcement dropped via an email to supporters that managed to condemn last week's terrorist attack on a Manchester synagogue, while simultaneously accusing both Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch of "weaponising tragedy" to suppress pro-Palestine activism.
"We were all appalled by the horrific terrorist attack on a synagogue in Manchester," the message began, before pivoting sharply.
"Instead, we have seen politicians, from Keir Starmer to Kemi Badenoch, weaponise the attack to launch a fresh assault on the Palestine movement and the right to protest."
It's classic Corbynite rhythm — moral sympathy first, moral outrage next.
🔥 The Political Flashpoint
The rally is scheduled for next Saturday and billed as marking "two years since the genocide began" in Gaza — but notably makes no reference to Hamas's original attacks on Israel on October 7, 2023. That omission alone ensures it will ignite anger across the political spectrum.
The timing also comes just days after nearly 500 arrests were made at a pro-Palestine demonstration in London — 488 of them for alleged support of the banned group Palestine Action. Police are now being handed expanded powers to limit or even ban repeat protests, under new amendments to the Public Order Act 1986.
Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood defended the move as a necessary balance between liberty and safety:
"Large, repeated protests can leave sections of our country, particularly religious communities, feeling unsafe… These changes mark an important step in ensuring we protect the right to protest while ensuring all feel safe in this country."
But Corbyn's camp see something darker.
💬 QUOTES OF THE DAY
"We know why they're doing this. Like the Tories before them, Labour know they're complicit in Israel's genocide." – Your Party statement
"They know they can't defend the indefensible. So they're trying to crush dissent instead. We will not be silent and we will not be cowed." – Your Party email to supporters
"We totally reject these cynical, anti-democratic and authoritarian arguments." – Your Party statement
"These changes protect protest while ensuring all feel safe." – Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood
"Recognise and respect the grief of British Jews." – Prime Minister Keir Starmer
🗳️ VOTES ANALYSIS
For Labour:
Starmer faces a classic dilemma — control the narrative or lose the streets. His government's tougher stance on protest powers may reassure Jewish voters and moderates unnerved by months of pro-Palestine marches, but it risks alienating the younger, activist base that once fuelled Corbynism.
For the Tories:
Badenoch and the Conservative leadership are delighted to see Labour fighting its own left flank — yet they'll quietly cheer new protest restrictions they might have proposed themselves.
For Corbyn:
He's found his spark again — not on the opposition benches, but in the moral margins, where outrage is oxygen. Framing himself as the conscience Labour discarded, Corbyn is betting that anger over Gaza and civil-liberty curbs can re-energise his political relevance.
🧭 V&Q VERDICT
- Political optics: incendiary
- Public order risk: escalating
- Corbyn's messaging: part moral protest, part political re-entry plan
- Starmer's challenge: holding the centre while the edges catch fire
In short: Corbyn's Your Party isn't just testing Labour's nerves — it's testing Britain's fault lines on protest, religion, and free speech.
Next weekend's rally may show whether his movement is a moral crusade or a political provocation. Either way, Westminster will be watching — nervously.
