Thousands Gather In London For Protest Against Israeli Military Action in Gaza

[madfloridian]

From Huff Post UK

Gaza Conflict: Thousands Gather In London For Protest Against Israeli Military Action

Thousands of protesters have gathered in London today to call for an end to Israeli military action in Gaza and "justice and freedom" for Palestine.

Up to 15,000 people are thought to have marched through the capital from Downing Street to the Israeli embassy in Kensington after Israel launched a ground invasion of Gaza on Thursday.

This was the latest and one of the more peaceful demonstrations as rallies take place across the globe in recent days.

Sarah Colborne, director of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, said London has "already shown its outrage at Israel's attacks on the mostly refugee population of Gaza, with people turning out in their thousands last week.

[Comrade Grumpy]

1. Kick for London and everywhere else people are going to the streets in support of Gaza.

We don't seem to hear a peep about it.

[madfloridian]

7. It's about humanity...

and what happens when a nation puts their cause above simple human decency.

[malaise]

2. K & R

for peace

[jwirr]

3. For peace. I just want this to stop.

[madfloridian]

4. Picture from Spain

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/07/pictures-pro-palestinian-protes-201471811179953166.html

[sabrina 1]

6. Wow, someone said it was quiet in London, but great to see these demonstrations

against the brutality in Gaza against the Palestinian people.

[madfloridian]

8. Just like the lead up to the Iraq invasion...we have to DIG for info.

Because our media is not about to tell us.

[sabrina 1]

10. There is definitely a sense of Deja Vu about all that is happening right now.

I remember the huge demonstrations all over the world against the Iraq War. CNN began to cover it, then suddenly stopped. I know because I was a moderator on a large Liberal forum at the time and we were following the worldwide opposition to the war.

Recently I asked someone if they remembered how big the demonstrations were back then and they said 'no, never saw any'.

The Corporate Media has been fully coopted and therefore not trustworthy.

[madfloridian]

27. "suddenly stopped"

Yes, it will look like something has legs...then it doesn't.

[Comrade Grumpy]

9. "In Pictures, Global Solidarity Protests"

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/inpictures/2014/07/pictures-pro-palestinian-protes-201471811179953166.html

(Lots of photos at the link)

In Johannesburg, numerous traffic jams occurred on Friday as thousands of pro-Palestine protesters gathered outside the Israeli Embassy trade office, waving Palestinians flags and banners criticising Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip.

However in Paris, French police banned a pro-Palestinian demonstration on Saturday after protesters last weekend tried to storm two synagogues in the capital during a similar rally, according to Agence France-Presse news agency.

President Francois Hollande, during a visit to Niger on Friday, said the march would have been a "risk to public order". "We cannot allow the conflict to be imported into France. We cannot have demonstrators [from opposite sides] facing each other down, with a risk to public order," he said.

The organisers of the march, meanwhile, said they were taking legal action to overturn the ban but that it would be defied regardless of the outcome.

In Istanbul, riot police used water cannons to stop hundreds of pro-Palestinian Turks who were staging a protest rally outside the Israeli consulate after Israel launched a ground operation in the Gaza Strip.

However, from Jakarta, Indonesia to Berlin, Germany, pro-Palestinian protesters have been staging demonstrations in solidarity with Palestinians and in condemnation of Israel’s latest offensive in Gaza.

[madfloridian]

11. Posted the one from Spain above.

So many good pictures at that link.

[Comrade Grumpy]

12. "Thousands of Pro-Palestine Protestors Defy French Rally Ban"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/19/pro-palestinian-protest-france_n_5601950.html?utm_hp_ref=world

PARIS, July 19 (Reuters) - Pro-Palestinian protesters clashed with police in Paris on Saturday as they defied a ban on a planned rally against violence in the Gaza strip.

A Reuters photographer said demonstrators in northern Paris launched projectiles at riot police, who responded by firing teargas canisters and stun grenades. Demonstrators also climbed on top of a building and burned an Israeli flag.

President Francois Hollande earlier said he had asked his interior minister to ban protests that could turn violent after demonstrators marched on two synagogues in Paris last weekend and clashed with riot police.

"That's why I asked the interior minister, after an investigation, to ensure that such protests would not take place," he told journalists during a visit to Chad.

[U4ikLefty]

13. Police estimate 200 protesters.

[madfloridian]

16. lol sounds like the "dozens" of protestors against the Iraq invasion...

when in reality many were closer to a million.

[U4ikLefty]

21. Hiya mad, just wanted to thank you

for your defense of Public Education. I look forward to you threads on matters of education.

Fight on...we are listening.

On edit: I know this post is off-topic, but I thought it needed to be said. Oh, an BTW I joined DU as one of those "dozens" of Iraq War protesters in March of 2003. How things have changed!

[madfloridian]

26. That's amazing you joined then.

Oh, yes, things seem to have changed. Now we watch other countries doing the protesting.

Appreciate your reading my posts about education. Almost the same thing happening in countries around the world.....same people doing the hijacking of public education most likely.

I see Gove is going. Wonder if Arne Duncan is next?

[U4ikLefty]

30. Hey mad if not for posters like you I would not have stayed around

since March 2003. Thanks for all that you do for the cause. Many of my kind who get out there & defy BS-authority are marginalized as fools on DU. I remember Occupy & the pushback here on DU by the...well never mind it would get me banned.

[madfloridian]

31. I know just what you mean.

I remember also when Occupy was supported here instead of scorned. I remember when Bush education policies would be opposed not praised. Sometimes I just have to take time off from posting about education because honestly and truly nobody really cares.

[dipsydoodle]

14. Another picture here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-28383460

[madfloridian]

17. Wow.

That's amazing.

[dipsydoodle]

19. Always a good turnout for protests at the Israeli Embassy

which are anti Israel's antics as opposed to anti semitic.

[madfloridian]

20. Yes, against tactics that are inhumane. Not anti-any country.

Well said.

[NealK]

15. K&R

[imthevicar]

18. I think

Israel has an Image Problem.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

24. Funny how nations act like a war can be accepted with the right sales pitch.

[imthevicar]

32. God Bless

Edward Louis Bernays.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

33. Bingo.

[Joe Shlabotnik]

22. K&R

Thanks for posting.

[madfloridian]

34. Found it on twitter. Of course our news doesn't carry it.

We are a nation deprived of serious news.

[bravenak]

23. K&R

Thank you Madflo.

[madfloridian]

28. You are welcome.

[democrank]

25. K & R

~PEACE~

[arikara]

29. The people get it

but the governments are always going on about Hamas rockets and Israel's right to "defend" itself by brutalizing the civilian population and stealing their land. Harper is an embarrassment for Canada, but no more than the major opposition parties who parrot the same thing.

The only party in Canada that speaks up for the Palestinians is the Green party. And if Hamas was smart they would quit with their ineffective stupid rockets. The only ones who benefit from their firing them off is the Israelis because it grants them legitimacy for what they are doing. That's a thought, isn't it?