I have never seen any anti-semitism at pro-palestinian demos. I was at the counter-demo at the Zionist rally and didn't hear anyone shouting "Nuke, nuke Israel" and "Bomb, bomb Tel Aviv", though I heard this was written in the racist, xenophobic Daily Mail.

I would like to see more dialogue between anti-capitalists and Muslims, as I believe they have much in common, with Islam emphasising social justice and community.

P.S. I'm looking forward to Saturday!

peace,
I agree we gotta get a LOT of people marching, more people on the streets this weekend than those ZioNazi bastards did before (where was everyone when we were on the counter-demo?).
As for the religious 'zeolots' hijacking it, I don't think you need to worry about that mate. lol The anti-Capitalist movement is logistically a midget compared to a group like Hizbullah marching beside us, it's THEIR flags that strike fear into the enemy, not your socialist alliance banners (although socialism is cool).
As for people chanting utter shite, I'm afraid that's going to happen no matter what you do. I mean "Nuke, nuke Israel" is a plainly moronic statement (I didn't actually hear it myself). What you have to remember as 'anti-capitalists' is that the true Islamic agenda is also VERY anti-capitalist, but with a workable (tried and tested) societal system attached. When you speak of bigot and fundamentalists, be careful not to tar all Muslim activists with the same brush as those few ignorant ones who don't even know their religion. Islam is against hate, against bigotry, it seeks to eliminate nationalism, and embrace all cultures and people's, regardless of race or creed (I'm not a Muslim, btw). Perhaps it's time you read the Qu'ran and research a little before you talk about 'fundamentalists', trust me, the Taliban were Wahabi (nutcases) and they DEFINITELY were not in attendance. In fact, wahabi Taliban would probably try to kill the Hizbullah guys because they are Shia. Crazy s***, eh?
All I'm saying is, when you guys have the power to drive Israel and the US out of Lebanon, and sustain a social security network (including hospitals, etc) and have your own satellite tv station, then you can talk like you own the place. Right now you ain't got diddly squat when it comes to Palestine. The Muslims are in charge.


Jimbob

Good point Jimbob.
I'm hoping to attend the demo myself, fingers crossed.
I hope there is a good attendance, we need the numbers.
Did anyone see Dispatches on channel four tonite?

As a member of DAAWN I don't think that the posting was trying to tar all muslims with the same brush, but there is a certain amount of extremists who attend these demo's. DAAWN support the liberation of the palestinian people otherwise we wouldn't be coming to the march. The main point of the posting was that there are a great many non-muslims who believe that palestine should be free but refuse to come to the marches because they don't want any connection with people waving Hizbullah flags. What DAAWN would like to see is people looking past whoever else is turning up to the march and supporting the issue in question. If everyone who disagreed with the people who advocate nuking Israel stopped supporting palestinian liberation that would be stupid. People are losing sight of the goals for the sake of petty points between groups. there may well have been neo-fascist anti-capitalists at mayday (the police would have us believe that anyway), but that wouldn't stop the radical left turning up. There may have been black bloc'ers turning up but it SHOULDN't have stopped pacifists from going. there needs to be more open mindedness amongst the protest community or whatever you might want to call it.

Before we can turn up we need to know what the main message the demo is trying to put out to the public. If the central theme is that we support a peaceful solution to ending the occupation, then it will succeed. If its anything else a negative image will be reported and the extremists will win.