Millions of people took to the streets in cities all over the world in support of the Palestinians on Saturday 13th January and London was no exception. The organisers said over half a million took part in the solidarity demonstration that rocked the heart of the capital. Others, like Arab commentators who add those who lined the streets to support the march from the City of London to Trafalgar Square, put the numbers nearer a million.
And on the day London comrades joined the hundreds of thousands of protesters who marched through the capital on Saturday to demand an end to Israeli aggression and justice for the Palestinians.
Speakers at Trafalgar Square included former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald. McDonald called for an “immediate and permanent ceasefire”, and said Sinn Fein had spent 25 years building peace, adding: “This can happen. This must happen and we will ensure that it does”
The Palestinian ambassador to Britain, Husam Zomlot, accused the British government of being “complicit” with Israel, and congratulated South Africa for bringing a genocide case against Israel at the UN’s International Court of Justice in The Hague. He described the Palestinian people as a “nation of freedom fighters” saying “I stand before you with a broken heart, but not a broken spirit.”
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