More than 200,000 pro-Palestinian protesters, among them Sinn Fein President Mary Lou McDonald and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, marched through London amid escalating tensions in Yemen. The Mail has more.
More than 200,000 Pro-Palestinian protesters have started marching through London for the first major demonstration of 2024 — as the Metropolitan Police confirmed it had moved in to make six arrests.
Around 1,700 police officers from the Met and other U.K. forces have been mobilised amid fears the escalating tension in Yemen will bring more activists to the streets of the capital.
Iran-backed Houthi rebels, whose slogan includes “Death to Israel” and “Curse the Jews”, have targeted commercial ships passing through the Red Sea in a show of solidarity with Palestine.
Some protesters appeared to agree with the actions, chanting: “Yemen, Yemen, make us proud, turn another ship around” as they marched through the capital.
Others waved Palestine flags, chanted “Free, free Palestine” and lit flares as they marched from Queen Victoria Street towards Parliament Square, calling for a ceasefire in war-torn Gaza.
Just Stop Oil protesters in fluorescent orange vests also joined the action, sharing a video of their activists clutching large banners walking alongside other activists.
Some protesters wearing masks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were seen holding bloodied dolls up in the air in a bid to highlight the civilian lives being lost in the Middle East war. …
Protesters marched to Trafalgar Square, where speakers, including Sinn Finn President Mary Lou McDonald, Palestinian U.K. ambassador Husam Zomlot and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, spoke out in support of Palestinians.
Mr. Zomlot accused the British Government of “complicity” with Israel. He told the protesters Palestine was a “nation of freedom fighters”, saying: “I stand before you with a broken heart but not a broken spirit.”
He congratulated South Africa for bringing a genocide case against Israel at the UN’s International Court of Justice. …
Labour MP for Coventry South Zarah Sultana described the air strikes as “shameful, deplorable and beyond unacceptable”, adding that they were “not in our name”.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: The New York Post reports protests outside the Yemen Mission in New York City condemning U.S. attacks on Houthi rebels, where some demonstrators assaulted a couple holding an Israeli flag, shouting, “Long live Hamas, you piece of s–t!”
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Marvellous!
The Democrats don’t like the British Empire even though they have one of their own!
Badenoch is now third in the Conservative leadership election.
So the Conservatives will be led by another Westminster yes man cardboard cut out.
Reform.
Anyone conservative was always going to be removed from the ‘choice’ – we know that…
She is only parading her ‘conservative’ values to win over the sucker membership vote. And boy oh boy any member left in the Tory party is either a sucker or a wet.
Badenoch would become a cardboard cut out yes lady too. They don’t become leader without taking the Danegeld.
The tail end of the left wing Biden administration (likely run by Obama for most of the past 4 years) just doesn’t care. Most politicians have short time horizons.
Aside from the security issue, they were ours and had never been meaningfully Mauritian. There might be minerals in their territorial area.
We know Mauritius cannot protect and secure these islands over 2000 miles.
Whoever comes at the top heap won’t be relevant for long. The Tories haven’t learned anything over the last few months and until they unite with a common purpoe they are doomed.
What is all this tosh about the “special relationship”? American foreign policy is directed at protecting the interests of the United States – and no one else. In other words the “special relationship” is a childish delusion peddled by adults who ought to know better.
It is where the UK bends over and the US decides how far it will shaft us.
You are absolutely correct. How many countries and politicians have been destroyed by this fallacy of a special relationship with Washington? Politicians delude themselves and fall into this hole because of their need and quest to be close to power. Bliar is a good example.
Next on the list will be Gibraltar …. demonstrating our continuing vassal status to the EU.
This is what happens when you have a treacherous parcel o’ rogues running a nation …… the kind we’ve had since the 1960s.
“… the country’s government sold the islands to Britain for a tidy sum.”
So we can get that back with interest and allowance for inflation and pay the pensioners’ Winter fuel allowance – or buy Free Gear Keir a new suit.
None of these shenanigans will get a single Chagos Islander back to their islands though, at least they won’t be our problem anymore.
Of course if the Yanks did tell Liebour to hand over the Islands lets hope Mauritius doesn’t now ask them to leave too but if they do I hope the yanks will have the good sense to totally and utterly demolish all infrastructure, and flood with concrete anything underground.