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Protest against Israeli Massacres of Palestinians

Edinburgh saw a protest of around 100 people by the Royal Academy of Scotland near the foot of the Mound in the space between East and West Princes Street gardens. Against a background of dozens of Palestinian flags, banners and placards read `Israel stop bombing Gaza`, Boycott to stop Israeli war crimes`, and `End Israeli war crimes`. Speakers included Kevin Connor and solidarity’s Willie Black.
11 photos from the day are attached.

Sunday December 28th saw a large number of demonstrations around the world against the Israeli onslaught on the Gaza strip.

Stop Israeli Massacres of Palestinians
Stop Israeli Genocide
Stop British Government Support for Israeli crimes
Demonstrate, Sunday 28th 4.30pm
- Glasgow: George Square
(Supported by MSPs Pauline McNeill & Sandra White, Scottish PSC, Scottish Friends of Palestine, Scotland Stop the War, Glasgow Central Mosque, Scottish Islamic Forum, Scottish Afghan Society, Lebanese Community in Scotland, Glasgow Palestine Human Rights Campaign)
- Edinburgh: Foot of the Mound, Princes Street

Edinburgh saw a protest of around 100 people by the Royal Academy of Scotland near the foot of the Mound in the space between East and West Princes Street gardens. Against a background of dozens of Palestinian flags, banners and placards read `Israel stop bombing Gaza`, Boycott to stop Israeli war crimes`, and `End Israeli war crimes`. Speakers included Kevin Connor and solidarity’s Willie Black.
11 photos from the day are attached.

Scottish Palestine solidarity:

http://www.scottishpsc.org.uk/

Here are photos of the London demonstration:

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2008/12/416214.html

Here is how the London demo was reported on the BBC:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7802078.stm

Paul
e-mail: o_hanlon@hotmail.com

Comments

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No much of a demo

29.12.2008 10:34

100 people in Scotalnd's capital. The message is clear - most people either don't care very much about this issue or support Israel defending itself. Nice to see people exercising their right to protest though, a right that is rare in the midle east, except in Israel of course, the only civilised, developed and democratic country in the whole region.

Do the 'liberals' who whine about injustice to 'Palestinians' all the time really want the whole of the middle east to be as backward as the Arab part? At least Israel is a haven of modern thinking on things like gay and womens rights, and if Israel disappeared from the maps things would be a lot worse for a lot more people.

Pete

Now over 325 Palestinians dead, over 1,000 wounded, and Pete's cracking jokes!

29.12.2008 14:07

Pete (29.12.2008 10:34): "...Israel of course, the only civilised...country in the whole region."

(And, Pete, you really think that Zionist Israel is ever going to be a safe haven for Israel's Jews -- who largely came from *Europe* and later from the U.S. -- let alone be "a light unto the nations"?)

Barbarism= Zionism = Racism

What Time and Planet Are You From?

29.12.2008 18:16

So racism, religious litmus tests, ethnically exclusionary policies and terror are MODERN concepts. In what time and on what planet?

Racist "Israel" is as much a democracy as the Jim Crow American South was or Apartheid South Africa was. A country which ethnically cleanses a majority of its inhabitants and politically disenfranchises the bulk of its residents is in no way, shape or form anything approaching a democracy.

Israel is a sham and a fake, just as you are a sham and a fake.

No Justice, No Peace!
Free, Free Palestine!

Zionism is Not Judaism

protest has a bad name its negating - its being deconstructed.

05.01.2009 05:30

Im getting allergic to protest - anyone feel a bit the same. All protest - and this is not a winge.

This doesn't mean i'm not involved - in ways I can be and Ive got too many ideas to implement and not enough time.

The problem is not governments, (or you could add the police, or Israel, or Hamas) its people who protest and continue to obey - Henry David Thoreau

Promote olive tree planting in Palestine to challenge the occupation, this is a way of promoting and enabling civil disobedience - we are doing it and noone's approval is required.

LHM

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