Nationwide March for Palestine: On thirtieth November 2024 I photographed yet one more massive march by London calling for an finish to the persevering with assaults by Israel in Gaza, Lebanon and the occupied West Financial institution.
As traditional there was a powerful Jewish presence on the march – and it was opposed by a a lot smaller counter-demonstration by largely Jewish protesters, many calling for the discharge of the hostages nonetheless held in Gaza.
Lots of these on the primary march additionally need the hostages to be launched, however see the one option to acheive this isn’t to proceed the devastation and genocide in Gaza, however a ceasefire with severe negotiations in the direction of a long-term peace in Palestine and Israel.
Final week over 200 Israelis residing within the UK signed a letter to Keir Starmer and David Lammy urging them to impose sanctions on Israeli ministers Itamar Ben Gvit and Bezalel Smotrich, asking others residing within the UK with Israeli citizenship so as to add their signatures.
Partly this acknowledged their opposition to the hateful and harmful rhetoric of those two miniters which they are saying “endangers lives, obstructs the potential for a hostage deal , and endorses requires ethnic cleaning.”
Reported right here within the Jewish press however I believe ignored by the BBC and the remainder of the UK press, the letter accuses the 2 ministers of “doing all they will to forestall a hostage and ceasefire deal and as an alternative focusing their whole energies on their messianic goals: annexing the West Financial institution and settling the Gaza strip.”
The letter makes clear that the 2 “don’t communicate for us” and that opinion “polls in Israel reveal that almost all of the general public helps a hostage deal and seeks an finish to the warfare.”
Earlier the Jewish Information had reported on a marketing campaign by British Jewish organisation “Yachad, who advocate for peace and equality for Israelis and Palestinans“, additionally calling for sanctions in opposition to the 2 males, and the media extra extensively lined each David Cameron stating his authorities had been planning sanctions in opposition to these ministers and on Starmer and Lammy “mulling over” sanctions. By now these appear effectively overmulled.
As with all of the earlier marches and occasions calling for an finish to the assaults on Gaza, the protest was fully peaceable, with an entire absence of any antisemitism – until you outline calling for freedom for Palestine and Palestinians as antisemitic.
I wrote in my captions “Because the loss of life toll from Israel’s assaults in Gaza is now over 43,000 and plenty of now face hunger with each hospital having been bombed and with just about no medical provides, and the UK remains to be complicit within the genocide, hundreds together with many Jews, marched in yet one more fully peaceable mass protest in solidarity. They name for an instantaneous ceasefire with the discharge of hostages and prisoners and for negotiations to safe a long-term simply peace within the space.“
That determine of 43,000 is unfortunately old-fashioned and the true determine is now significantly larger, with many our bodies nonetheless buried below rubble and an rising variety of deaths from the illness and hunger attributable to the persevering with assaults and the deliberate denial of meals, gas and drugs. Israeli forces have destroyed a lot of the infrastructure in addition to the organisation of society which was after all largely offered by Hamas.
We’re witnessing – regardless of the banning of the worldwide press from any efficient entry to Gaza – the big scale collective punishment of the complete inhabitants of Gaza. And the detailed reported and conclusion “that following 7 October 2023, Israel dedicated and is committing genocide in opposition to Palestinians in Gaza” by Amnesty Worldwide confirms what has been clear to nearly everybody for a lot of months
All the photographs listed here are from the march by London on thirtieth November 2024. You possibly can see many extra right here in my album on the occasion.
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