Stand by Gaza now!

by New Worker correspondent

Over 150,000 people marched in support of the Palestinians in central London on Saturday 15th May. The march was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) in what was one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the capital for many years,
    A spokesperson for the organisers, that included the PSC, Friends of Al-Aqsa, Palestinian Forum in Britain, Stop The War Coalition, CND and the Muslim Association of Britain, said: “It is vital that the UK government takes immediate action. It must stop allowing Israel's brutal violence against and oppression of the Palestinian people to go unpunished”.
    Protests against Israeli aggression took place in cities and towns throughout the world over the weekend calling for justice for the Palestinians and an end to Zionist violence.
    But Tory MP Michael Fabricant has come under fire for calling demonstrators “primitives” last week. The Tory MP for Lichfield shared a video of some of the demonstrators clashing with police outside the diplomatic mission embassy, tweeting that “primitives are trying to bring to London what they do in the Middle East”.
     ​The Tory backbencher was slammed by the anti-racist Hope Not Hate campaign, which urged the Conservative Party to suspend the politician for “hateful racism that stirs up division”.
    While Fabricant deleted the message after the backlash it triggered, Hope Not Hate said “The tense situation requires steady leadership from people who want to bring communities together, not hateful racism that stirs up division. The Conservatives must suspend Michael Fabricant for this disgraceful comment”.
    Meanwhile four people taking part in a Palestine solidarity motorcade in north London have been arrested for yelling anti-semitic abuse from their car as the convoy drove through a largely Jewish area of the capital.
    The Palestine Solidarity Campaign condemned the incident saying: “The vile anti-Semitism shouted today from a convoy of cars has no place in the Palestine solidarity movement. We condemn it and all anti-Semitism, on its own account and also as it serves to undermine the anti-racist struggle for Palestinian rights”.