Thousands of pro-Palestine freedom and independence protesters have marched through Edinburgh and other UK cities as part of a massive moverment of demonstrations against the war in Gaza. Activists gathered demanding an end to the genocide perpetrated by Israel in Palestine.
Demonstrations took place in cities across the UK, including Bristol, Manchester, London and Truro - calling for the ban on the Palestine Action organization to be reversed.
Mick Napier, founding member of the Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, said there was a large turnout in the Scottish capital because of outrage over Israel's plan for a "humanitarian city" in Rafah. Speaking as the march set off down the Royal Mile, he told the PA news agency: "It's large, it's bigger than we've had for a very long time and it's entirely due to the building of the Israeli concentration camp in Rafah.
"They've called it a humanitarian city but people are utterly horrified, cumulatively, by what's happened during 22 months of genocide."
Protesters marched from St Giles' Cathedral, down the Royal Mile and on to Bute House [BBC]
Earlier this week, three women were arrested under the Terrorism Act after a van was driven into the external fence of the Leonardo UK factory in Edinburgh. The group Shut Down Leonardo claimed it was making components for F-35 fighter jets that Israel uses in its savagery against innocent Palestinian civilians.
Former MP Tommy Sheppard spoke to the crowd outside Queen Elizabeth house, saying: "Today in the Middle East a genocide is being prosecuted in real time and we are watching it on television play by play."
The UK government - whose World War I era predecesssor "gifted" Palestine to the colonial Zionists - continues to say it supports Israel's right to defend itself, even when self-defense becomes a license for the most monstruous genocide of the 21st century. The UK governments, both Labor and Tory, continue to play servants to their American master in collusion with the barbarian colonial Zionists.
Police arrested dozens of people for supporting the banned "Palestine Action" rights organization on Saturday as protests over the government’s decision to outlaw the group continued for a third weekend. Waving placards reading “I oppose genocide, I support Palestine Action,” demonstrators gathered in London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Bristol, Londonderry and Truro.
The government banned Palestine Action after its activists broke into a Royal Air Force base at Brize Norton on June 20 to protest British military support for Israel’s genocide in Palestine. In evidence of its colluding bias for its child Zionism, the UK political establishment designated Palestine Action as a terrorist organization. But it has refrained from designating the racist, violent, murderous Jewish settler organizations and the ethnic cleanser radical Israeli government now stealing land and ethnically cleansing Palestine as terrorist organizations.
Supporters of Palestine Action are challenging the ban, with the High Court in London scheduled to consider the case on Monday, according to the campaign group Defend Our Juries, which organized Saturday’s protests. Almost 100 protesters were arrested around the country on Saturday, including 55 in London, Defend Our Juries said in a statement.
Police were seen carrying an elderly man away from the demonstration in the Cornish city of Truro as he shouted, “I oppose genocide.”
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