Stop Israeli aggression!

by New Worker correspondent

Around 600 people protested in Camden Town, north London, last Saturday calling for an immediate ceasefire and an end to Israel's deliberate targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip, in just one of many local protests all over Britain last weekend.
Sabby Sagall, the president of the Camden Palestine Solidarity Campaign, told the protesters that Israel's policy has been the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians since 1947. Sagall praised South Africa for initiating the International Criminal Court application against Israel, and accused the British government of “diplomatically covering up genocide”.
Stop the War’s Andrew Murray said "The British and the American governments are ignoring (Israel’s) genocide, our government is arming the genocide” while tetired doctor Jonathan Flaxman said that there was no functioning health service in northern Gaza. with Twenty-three out of 36 hospitals have been destroyed. As a result “people who are injured, who couldn't be saved, will die a slow, painful death. We know that it's part of the ethnic cleansing". He added that health care workers were being intentionally targeted by Israeli forces and over 300 have been killed.
Andrew Feinstein, a Jewish former ANC member of the South African parliament, spoke about the South African Jewish Board of Deputies’ claim that South Africa was “humiliating itself in the international arena” by starting the ICJ case against Israel. He said “the organised Jewish community in South Africa found it extraordinarily difficult to criticise apartheid until the mid-1980s, so we’re not talking about people speaking from a position of moral integrity here”.
Feinstein spoke of the ANC’s long standing support for the Palestine Liberation Organisation, and the growing view that Israel was practising its own brand of apartheid in the occupied territories, adding: “There are certain things that run incredibly deep in the ANC and its support for the Palestinian people is one of them. There’s an affinity for the Palestinian struggle which is seen as very close to the South African struggle”.