The parents of Scotland’s First Minister joined a pro-Palestine rally in Glasgow yesterday to protest about Israel’s response to the terrorist attack by Hamas last weekend. The Times has the story.
Thousands marched through Glasgow to demonstrate against Israel’s attack on the Gaza Strip.
Protesters, including the elderly parents of the First Minister, gathered at Buchanan Galleries before heading to the BBC at Pacific Quay.
Smaller but similar rallies were staged in Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen yesterday at the same time as big marches in London and Manchester.
The protests were sparked by the Israeli Defence Force bombing Palestinian communities in Gaza, the narrow strip of land from which Hamas launched its bloody attacks last weekend.
Some campaigners carried placards claiming Israel was an “apartheid state” while many chanted “Free, Free Palestine”.
A few were heard to call for “Palestine to be free from the river to the sea”, a slogan regarded as antisemitic by the Anti-Defamation League and Jewish groups.
Suella Braverman, the home secretary, has told police that using the phrase — which refers to the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean, or all of Israel — may amount to a racially aggravated public order offence.
Glasgow protesters carried a sea of green, red, black and white Palestinian flags and marched behind a banner which read “end the siege of Gaza”. A small boy was pictured wearing a hat which said “stop killing the children of Gaza”.
At the BBC, some chanted “shame on you” for what they saw as biased coverage of the conflict. …
The protests drew an angry response form the Glasgow Friends of Israel. The group, which holds regular small counterprotests in the city, tweeted: “1,300 Jews raped, burnt alive, murdered in a pogrom. Yet these people turned out for a hate march.”
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