You’d be forgiven for thinking Dawn Butler was advertising a nice day out with the Woodcraft Folk. “Proud to be a leading member of @UKTogetherAll, an alliance of people and civil society orgs against the far Right,” she posted earlier this week. “We’re choosing hope over fear, with a family walk in London, March 28th.”

You’d be none the wiser if you looked at the celebrities lending their lustre to this cause – Sir Lenny Henry, Billy Bragg, Mark Rylance, Steve Coogan – or the names of the groups supporting it – The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, National Society for Education in Art and Design, Peace and Justice Project, Respect for Life Foundation, Rainbow Stores, Christians for a Welcoming Britain – and, indeed, the Woodcraft Folk.

But scratch beneath the wholesome surface and the Together Alliance begins to look more sinister. One of the groups on the list of supporters is the Muslim Association of Britain (MAB), which was founded by a former Hamas military commander. And the person named by Companies House as having “significant control” of MAB now is Anas Altikriti, who described the terrorist attack on southern Israel as an “act of resistance” and dismissed allegations of rape and mass slaughter on October 7th as a “lie”.

Also on the list is Leicester-based pro-Palestinian lobbying organisation Friends of Al Aqsa, whose chairman Ismail Patel has allegedly met former Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, declared “we are all Hamas”, and referred to a gunman from the terror group who killed an Israeli civilian as a “martyr”.

Yet another supporter is the Finsbury Park Mosque, whose chairman, Mohammed Kozbar, has publicly praised the founder of Hamas, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, as “the master of the martyrs of the resistance”.

Then there’s the Palestine Solidarity Movement. A spokesperson for that organisation told a crowd at a protest in Bournemouth that Zionists “love killing” and “love genocide” and claimed that before the Holocaust they had killed 20 million Christians. In other words, the Jews had it coming.

Could it be that this Saturday’s ramble through Westminster is not an innocent “family walk” after all? Given some of the groups involved, including the Socialist Workers’ Party and its various sock puppets, we can expect placards mourning the late Ayatollah Khamenei, condemning the “Zionist entity” and supporting Palestine Action. 

If you think I’m exaggerating, the list of supporters includes all six of the groups behind the hate marches that have blighted the UK’s city centres since the slaughter of 1,200 Israeli civilians in 2023.