Skip to content or view mobile version

Home | Mobile | Editorial | Mission | Privacy | About | Contact | Help | Security | Support

A network of individuals, independent and alternative media activists and organisations, offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.

After 40 years of illegal military occupation of Palestine, enough!

kriptick | 09.06.2007 22:23 | Anti-militarism | History | Palestine | London

Although this was just another A to B march in support of the very long suffering Palestinian people, it had particular poignancy this year as it marked the 40'th anniversary of the disastrous 6 day war of 1967 that saw a massive illegal land grab by the Israeli army. Good turnout - organisers estimated numbers at 20,000. There was a small counter demonstration by a group of zionists on the opposite size of the Aldwych.

Front of the march
Front of the march

Plenty of ranters
Plenty of ranters


Jews against zionism receive much respect
Jews against zionism receive much respect

Must be great knowledge behind such a face
Must be great knowledge behind such a face

Other religious dudes support Palestine too
Other religious dudes support Palestine too

Counter zionist demo against double standards
Counter zionist demo against double standards

Traf square was nearly packed for the speeches
Traf square was nearly packed for the speeches


...then all these naked cyclists breezed through the square
...then all these naked cyclists breezed through the square


Lucky to make it to this one as I only heard about this protest half an hour before it officially started. The small counter demo by zionists caused much heckling from the main march - some of the loudest shouts of "Terrorist state!" against them came from the much respected groups of orthodox jews who freely give up their sabbath to attend regular protests against the ongoing illegal military occupation of Palestine.


The six day war in the middle east
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6_day_war
was when the Israeli army very suddenly and very aggressively attacked nearly all the neighbouring countries, stealing the Golan Heights, Sinai Desert, West Bank and the Gaza strip for itself. They destroyed the entire Egyptian airforce while it was still on the ground and caused the immediate creation of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees - ethnically cleansed from land they had lived on for many centuries. It very much shaped how the middle east is to this day and greatly increased the humiliation of the Palestinian people who were already suffering from when we the British, in 1948 had handed over Palestinian land to the Israelis that we had absolutely no right to ourselves.

Being really very young 40 years ago, I wasn't exposed to much news going on around the world then. However I do remember how our old headmaster at school would make announcements to the whole school about particularly momentous events - the Aberfan disaster, death of Churchill, devaluation of the pound. About the six day war though, I remember him being absolutely jubilant throughout that extraordinary week. Much of the time in our lessons with him then was taken up with him enthusiastically describing the latest spectacular military victories for the Israelis to a barely comprehending classroom of small boys.

I have to assume therefore that then just as now, the Arabs received generally bad world press coverage and the Israelis received much more supportive coverage. It is because of this grossly unbalanced reporting and also its huge support from the USA, that Israel has managed with impunity to ignore dozens of UN resolutions ordering it to return stolen land to the Palestinians, stop building the apartheid separation wall etc.

kriptick
- Homepage: http://www.palestinecampaign.org/

Additions

More Photos

10.06.2007 10:18



The march from behind
The march from behind


Several fundamentalist christians turned up to Trafalgar to supprot Israel.
Several fundamentalist christians turned up to Trafalgar to supprot Israel.

A pretty good march, with highlights including the choir. Police presence was light, but the officers had words with several peaceful march members regarding masks, alcohol, and Hamas / Hizbollah literature.

Dave C
mail e-mail: Gitboy@Action4Peace.org


video links

11.06.2007 22:20

Enough! demonstration London June 9 2007
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqWBz5T5hyg

London Manifestation "Free Palestine" 9 june 2007
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-S90AXdxlg

.


MP3 of all speeches!

17.06.2007 01:40

For an extensive report on the rally, including full mp3 audio and summary transcripts of all the speeches and over 70 photos from the rally:

 http://www.inminds.co.uk/enough.occupation.9.june.2007.php

observer


Upcoming Coverage
View and post events
Upcoming Events UK
24th October, London: 2015 London Anarchist Bookfair
2nd - 8th November: Wrexham, Wales, UK & Everywhere: Week of Action Against the North Wales Prison & the Prison Industrial Complex. Cymraeg: Wythnos o Weithredu yn Erbyn Carchar Gogledd Cymru

Ongoing UK
Every Tuesday 6pm-8pm, Yorkshire: Demo/vigil at NSA/NRO Menwith Hill US Spy Base More info: CAAB.

Every Tuesday, UK & worldwide: Counter Terror Tuesdays. Call the US Embassy nearest to you to protest Obama's Terror Tuesdays. More info here

Every day, London: Vigil for Julian Assange outside Ecuadorian Embassy

Parliament Sq Protest: see topic page
Ongoing Global
Rossport, Ireland: see topic page
Israel-Palestine: Israel Indymedia | Palestine Indymedia
Oaxaca: Chiapas Indymedia
Regions
All Regions
Birmingham
Cambridge
Liverpool
London
Oxford
Sheffield
South Coast
Wales
World
Other Local IMCs
Bristol/South West
Nottingham
Scotland
Social Media
You can follow @ukindymedia on indy.im and Twitter. We are working on a Twitter policy. We do not use Facebook, and advise you not to either.
Support Us
We need help paying the bills for hosting this site, please consider supporting us financially.
Other Media Projects
Schnews
Dissident Island Radio
Corporate Watch
Media Lens
VisionOnTV
Earth First! Action Update
Earth First! Action Reports
Topics
All Topics
Afghanistan
Analysis
Animal Liberation
Anti-Nuclear
Anti-militarism
Anti-racism
Bio-technology
Climate Chaos
Culture
Ecology
Education
Energy Crisis
Fracking
Free Spaces
Gender
Globalisation
Health
History
Indymedia
Iraq
Migration
Ocean Defence
Other Press
Palestine
Policing
Public sector cuts
Repression
Social Struggles
Technology
Terror War
Workers' Movements
Zapatista
Major Reports
NATO 2014
G8 2013
Workfare
2011 Census Resistance
Occupy Everywhere
August Riots
Dale Farm
J30 Strike
Flotilla to Gaza
Mayday 2010
Tar Sands
G20 London Summit
University Occupations for Gaza
Guantanamo
Indymedia Server Seizure
COP15 Climate Summit 2009
Carmel Agrexco
G8 Japan 2008
SHAC
Stop Sequani
Stop RWB
Climate Camp 2008
Oaxaca Uprising
Rossport Solidarity
Smash EDO
SOCPA
Past Major Reports
Encrypted Page
You are viewing this page using an encrypted connection. If you bookmark this page or send its address in an email you might want to use the un-encrypted address of this page.
If you recieved a warning about an untrusted root certificate please install the CAcert root certificate, for more information see the security page.

Global IMC Network


www.indymedia.org

Projects
print
radio
satellite tv
video

Africa

Europe
antwerpen
armenia
athens
austria
barcelona
belarus
belgium
belgrade
brussels
bulgaria
calabria
croatia
cyprus
emilia-romagna
estrecho / madiaq
galiza
germany
grenoble
hungary
ireland
istanbul
italy
la plana
liege
liguria
lille
linksunten
lombardia
madrid
malta
marseille
nantes
napoli
netherlands
northern england
nottingham imc
paris/île-de-france
patras
piemonte
poland
portugal
roma
romania
russia
sardegna
scotland
sverige
switzerland
torun
toscana
ukraine
united kingdom
valencia

Latin America
argentina
bolivia
chiapas
chile
chile sur
cmi brasil
cmi sucre
colombia
ecuador
mexico
peru
puerto rico
qollasuyu
rosario
santiago
tijuana
uruguay
valparaiso
venezuela

Oceania
aotearoa
brisbane
burma
darwin
jakarta
manila
melbourne
perth
qc
sydney

South Asia
india


United States
arizona
arkansas
asheville
atlanta
Austin
binghamton
boston
buffalo
chicago
cleveland
colorado
columbus
dc
hawaii
houston
hudson mohawk
kansas city
la
madison
maine
miami
michigan
milwaukee
minneapolis/st. paul
new hampshire
new jersey
new mexico
new orleans
north carolina
north texas
nyc
oklahoma
philadelphia
pittsburgh
portland
richmond
rochester
rogue valley
saint louis
san diego
san francisco
san francisco bay area
santa barbara
santa cruz, ca
sarasota
seattle
tampa bay
united states
urbana-champaign
vermont
western mass
worcester

West Asia
Armenia
Beirut
Israel
Palestine

Topics
biotech

Process
fbi/legal updates
mailing lists
process & imc docs
tech