PRO-Palestine protesters have shut down Tower Bridge with “genocidal” chants on the anniversary of the October 7 terror attack.
Demonstrators sang “from the river to the sea” before a march on Downing Street near Sir Keir Starmer’s residence earlier today.
Protestors blocked Tower Bridge this evening[/caption]
Protesters from Youth Demand and other Palestine groups set off flares[/caption]
They waved Palestinian flags and blocked the roads as they shouted ‘get your hands of Palestine’[/caption]
The slogan calls for the destruction of Israel and is classed as anti-antisemitic.
They waved Palestinian flags and blocked the roads as they shouted “get your hands of Palestine”
Protesters, rallied by the pro-Palestine group Intifada 87, were ordered to end their demonstration at 8pm under the Public Order Act.
But they have vowed to return tomorrow, in continuing opposition to the PM’s calls to pause protests on the October 7 attacks anniversary.
Students gathered near SOAS University in Bloomsbury, today, where expelled Haya Adam said: “Keir Starmer has urged students not to protest today but we are here today.
“We have successfully marched all the way from KCL to SOAS. We will not be intimidated by the state or afraid by their oppression.”
Ms Adam said it was their “responsibility” to march because of “continuous forced starvation” and “massacres” for two years.
Another protestor told The Telegraph: “Oct 7 was a prison break, morally speaking. They have been oppressed for so long.
“They have been hounded, corralled, pushed into the Gaza Strip and not allowed to escape from the prison, so in a sense it was a prison break.”
Counter protestors waving Israeli flags clashed with pro-Palestine supporters at the demonstrations today.
Karen Pollock, chief executive of the The Holocaust Education Trust said: “To demonstrate today of all days, with some of the inflammatory language heard on campuses glorifying terrorists, says everything you need to know about these protests.”
Meanwhile, in Manchester, 500 pro-Palestine protestors marched through the city chanting anti-Semitic slogans.
And demonstrators also gathered outside Sheffield University’s students’ union where they chanted: “From river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”
This comes as a woman who cut down hostage remembrance ribbons for Israelis held by Hamas less than a week after the Manchester attack has been identified.
Demonstrators sang ‘from the river to the sea’ before a march on Downing Street[/caption]
The slogan calls for the destruction of Israel and is classed as anti-antisemitic[/caption]
Protestors, rallied by the pro-Palestine group Intifada 87, were ordered to end their demonstration at 8pm[/caption]
Nadia Yahlom, from north London, is a Palestinian-Jewish PhD researcher and artist – and claimed the ribbons were “condoning genocide”.
The video, posted on X, shows a young woman using scissors to cut down yellow ribbons tied to the fence of Princes Avenue Park on Fortis Green Road in Muswell Hill, London.
The vandal responded to outcry from onlookers by saying: “I’m not committing a crime.
“If I am, then call the police.”
One onlooker can be heard saying: “You’re disgusting” to which the woman responds: “I think condoning a genocide is disgusting”.
The ribbons, which have now been replaced, are a sign of remembrance for the 48 people being held hostage in Gaza by Hamas.
It’s now emerged that the woman in the video is Nadia, a pro-Palestine artist.
Nadia is the co-founder of Sarha Collective, an artists organisation.
She is currently an Arts Council-funded PhD student at the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media (Cream), at the University of Westminster.
Her work is on the “hauntedness, supernatural life and the bio/necropolitical between Palestine and the UK”.
The Arts Council is funded by both the Government and the National Lottery.
She studied at Cambridge University and Goldsmiths, and her husband is a Palestinian actor.
It comes after shameless pro-Palestinian groups also planned to sell cakes at “hate rallies” — on the anniversary of the October 7 atrocity.
Demonstrators even aim to “honour our martyrs”, two years on from Hamas’s slaughter of 1,195 victims in Israel.
At least 16 rallies, many at universities, are due to go ahead, despite an outcry from the Jewish community.
One gathering scheduled in Liverpool included a bake sale for Palestinians with the tagline “time for dessert”, until the date was moved.
Another protest is still due to be held in Manchester, where last week’s synagogue rampage took place.
PM Sir Keir Starmer urged organisers to “demonstrate humanity”, especially after last week’s attack in which two Jewish victims were killed.
He was joined by Tory leader Kemi Badenoch and Reform boss Nigel Farage.
Labour has also announced a crackdown on repeat protests which wreak havoc and hatred on the streets every week.
It comes after Sir Keir called for protests to be halted on the second anniversary of the October 7 attacks[/caption]
Student pro Palestine protesters outside Kings College London before marching to the LSE[/caption]
A Palestine supporter clashed with an Israel supporter as pro-Palestine students protested outside University College London today[/caption]
Counter-protesters held Israeli flags during the pro-Palestinian student march[/caption]
