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Antifa Protest Anti-#MeToo Women’s Rights Event In London

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Amy Balog London-based writer and journalist
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Freya Honold, an activist associated with the German women’s rights movement #120db, gave a speech in London’s Hyde Park on Sunday to draw awareness to the sexual violence perpetrated by migrants in Europe.

The event, which was organized by the identitarian group Generation Identity and featured several other speakers, was disturbed by Antifa protesters, who were separated from the peaceful attendees by the police to prevent violence breaking out.

“The reason we started this movement is because sexual violence against women as a result of uncontrolled mass immigration from mostly Muslim countries is swept under the carpet by our officials and media,” Honold explained at the start of her speech. “The current state is unbearable for anyone with a healthy mind. Women are being raped, tortured and killed over nothing — just out of boredom and disrespect.”

120 decibel is the sound of pocket alarms carried by many girls and women. The movement was launched in January 2018 as a response to the #MeToo campaign, which, as Honold stated, focuses on acts of violence committed by western men in order to stay politically correct. Their first public action took place in February at the Berlin International Film Festival, where they disturbed a #MeToo-associated talk by displaying a banner that said: “We are the voice of the forgotten women.”

“They shouted ‘Nazis’ at us while we quietly held up pictures of the victims of current politics,” Honold said. “After they told us that they are not going to discuss with us, we left the stage but not without triggering a pocket alarm at 120 decibel, giving them a taste of their own medicine.”

The #120db activists consider themselves feminists and wish to be seen as true women’s rights activists. According to Honold, their movement is a reaction to the left’s willful ignorance of the clash between the liberation of women and the acceptance of vast numbers of Muslim migrants from misogynistic societies.

Editor’s note: The story has been corrected to identify the correct name of the speaker: Freya Honold, not Annika Franzisk.