Nigel Farage has hit out at pro-Palestinian protesters who disrupted a remembrance march to honour Holocaust victims.
Demonstrators chanted slogans at the marchers while unfurling Palestinian flags at the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp.
The march on Monday saw survivors of the Holocaust and the Oct 7 Hamas attacks on Israel joined by thousands to vow “never again”.
“Quite extraordinary”, Nigel Farage said on GB News.
Nigel Farage has hit out at pro-Palestinian demonstrations by Auschwitz
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“Yesterday at Auschwitz there was a commemorative march and service.
“This was to remember the horrors of what happened at that factory of death during World War Two, but also to remember those that were killed on October 7 and of course the 90 or so that are still being held hostage in shocking conditions.
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“Pro-Palestinian protesters turn up outside Auschwitz, putting out leaflets and flying the Palestinian flag.
“Frankly, I think that this is completely and utterly sick.”
The march, called the International March of the Living, is an annual 3km silent walk between the former Auschwitz and Birkenau death camps.
Historians believe as many as 1.1 million people, including a million jews, died at the site between 1940 and 1945.
Nigel Farage said the interruption was ‘utterly sick’
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Thousands of marchers attended
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The march is now in its 36th year and draws thousands of participants.
Its organisers said: “We marched today to give a voice to the six million victims of the Nazi’s industrial genocide of the Jewish people.
“We marched with survivors of the Nazi atrocities as well as survivors of Hamas’s crimes and families of those still held in captivity.
“The half a dozen protesters who perversely saw this as an opportunity to voice hatred against Israel and the Jewish people serve as a timely reminder of the importance of Holocaust education and remembrance and of teaching the dangers of hatred and extremism.”
Pro-Palestinian marches in Britain have sparked controversy amid claims Jewish people are being made to feel uncomfortable.
University leaders have been urged to take “robust action” to ensure Jewish students are not harassed by Downing Street.
Students have set up encampments on campuses to protest against the war in Gaza.
Rishi Sunak said on Tuesday’s Cabinet meeting there had been an “unacceptable rise in antisemitism on our university campuses”.
He said: “Our university campuses should be places of rigorous debate, but they should also be tolerant places where people of all communities, particularly Jewish students at this time, are treated with respect.”
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