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To Trafalgar Square this afternoon for the weekly pro Palestinian peace demonstration. Over a year now, and over 16,000 children killed, some of them shot in the head by trained snipers or burned alive in refugee tents. And leaves one considering the quotation, probably misattributed to Gandhi, saying that an eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.
A number of short addresses, including one by Alexei Sayle who read a poem of James Baldwin’s:
The crowd was a pretty eclectic mix and totally peaceful. There were police in attendance but their presence seemed deliberately low key. And the leaders clearly chose their words carefully, leaving no doubt that they blamed the US and UK for financing and abetting the conflict but not endorsing any form of violence in response.
Jewish Voice for Labour was in attendance carrying banners advocating justice for Palestine and an end to Israeli apartheid. And, movingly, there was a large banner representing descendants of holocaust survivors against genocide in Gaza.