Netanyahu, Immigration & Shaker: On Wednesday ninth September 2015 teams got here to Downing Road each to protest in opposition to and to help the Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu then making an official go to to David Cameron. And in Parliament Sq. there have been protests supporting the parliamentary report on immigration detention which was being debated, in addition to a weekly vigil calling for the discharge of Londoner Shaker Aamer, nonetheless then held in Guantanamo.
Netanyahu go to protests – Downing Road.
Over a thousand individuals had come to Downing Road to protest the official go to of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who they are saying ought to be arrested for warfare crimes within the assault on Gaza in 2014.
There have been too many for the small penned space the police had allotted for the protest and plenty of selected as a substitute to face within the space between the 2 carriageways, though police tried to clear the world.
A a lot smaller group who had come to help Israel have been in one other pen a brief distnace down the street. They included supporters with a Union flag with the message UK CHRISTIANS LOVE ISRAEL.
A few of them had include posters about different points, together with a girl holding a hand-written signal ‘THEY ARE CRUCIFYING CHRISTAINS IN IRAQ!’ However ISIS which has carried out such atrocities have been inspired by each Israel and the CIA and ISIS depends on Israeli cash for the oil they smuggle out to Israel.
The professional-Israel supporters complained to police that they weren’t controlling the pro-Palestinian protesters, and one tried to cease me photographing him as he did so. However I continued to {photograph} him.
By this time many from either side have been protesting on the pavement in entrance of Downing Road, and police had made numerous arrests, primarily of pro-Palestine activists. However others continued to complain to police.
Police managed to clear an space in order that automobiles may nonetheless depart and enter Downing Road when the gates have been opened, and folks from each teams shouted at one another throughout the slender divide. Extra police arrived and have been in a position to maintain this space clear.
Many protesters had remained on the far aspect of the street, and so they have been joined by anti-Zionist Neturei Karta orthodox Jews who held posters saying ‘State of “Israel” Do NOT Symbolize World Jewry’
But extra police arrived and the protests continued with quite a lot of noise from either side. There have been extra complaints by the Zionists that a couple of of these on the protests have been waving flags in help of the Lebanese Hezbollah. In 2008 the army wing of Hezbollah was proscribed however the parliamentary group which along with its allies had a majority within the Lebanese parliament was not – and each use the identical flag.
So it was nonetheless authorized to make use of the Hezbollah flag in 2015. However in 2019 House Secretary Sajid Javid added Hezbollah’s political wing to the record of proscribed terrorist organisations making the flag now unlawful to fly in Britain.
One of many pro-Israel protesters was holding a positively authorized Welsh flag, although I couldn’t perceive its relevance at this protest. The protest was nonetheless persevering with very noisily once I left.
Extra on My London Diary:
Netanyahu go to protest – Free Palestine
Assist for Israel & Netanyahu
Struggle immigration detention MfJ tells MPs – Parliament Sq.
The Report of the Inquiry into the Use of Immigration Detention in the UK
by the All Get together Parliamentary Group on Refugees & the All Get together Parliamentary Group on Migration was being debated in Parliament and Motion for Justice got here to Parliament Sq. to help a few of its conclusions and demand extra radical motion on immigration.
One in all its key conclusions was that there ought to be a time restrict of 28 days on immigration detention which is at present nonetheless indefinite. Not less than one particular person has been saved in our immigration prisons for 3 years (much less at some point) earlier than being launched, and none of these held know when or if they could be launched or deported. They continually face the chance of being forcibly deported to a rustic the place their lives are in danger.
A few of these participating within the protests had beforehand been held in detention centres for months or extra, whereas MfJ have been nonetheless calling for an finish to the unlawful ‘quick monitor’ system which is clearly designed to take away migrants and asylum seekers earlier than they’ve a correct probability to show their proper to be right here. Additionally they referred to as for a whole finish to detention and immigration raids, the opening of the Calais border and an amnesty for migrants.
The report additionally referred to as for “a whole-sale shift in method, away from merely specializing in enforcement and in the direction of high quality engagement with people in any respect phases of their immigration course of” which has been extremely profitable in different international locations.
For sure, the Tory authorities did not implement any of the modifications urged, and though Angela Rayner, now Deputy Prime Minister, was the one MP to return out and hearken to the protest, there appears little probability of our Labour Authorities shifting away from the present racist insurance policies.
Struggle immigration detention MfJ tells MPs
Shaker Aamer weekly vigils restart – Parliament Sq.
This was the primary of a brand new collection of weekly vigils reverse the Homes of Parliament calling for the discharge of Battersea resident Shaker Aamer, nonetheless held, abused and tortured in Guantanamo after greater than 13 years regardless of by no means dealing with any prices and having been twice cleared for launch.
Shaker Aamer weekly vigils restart
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