This was, honest-to-god, a chant I heard at the 2003 demo against the Iraq War. You could feel the crowd handbrake-turning in real-time as they tried to reorient to the emcee’s pre-existing peccadilloes.

As many qualms as I have with the standard chants at Gazan solidarity demos these days, at least they usually keep on topic.

(PSST! FREE PALESTINE! )

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March 10, 2003. The Strand is crammed with demonstrators against the Iraq War.

SI (box): ‘“All Your Base.” 2003. Iraq, right?’

NANCY (box): ‘Yup! And I was doing my plucky little best to stop it from happening.’

NANCY (box): ‘Me and a million others, but who’s counting, right?’

CHANTER: George Bush!

CROWD: TER-RO-RIST!

CHANTER: Tony Blair!

CROWD: TER-RO-RIST!

CHANTER: Ariel Sharon!

CROWD: …whozzat? Oh, um…terr…t…TER-RO-RIST!

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SUBTITLE: Chapter 7: Nostalgia Goggles