The Met Police stated that several arrests were made.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21598108

cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113339925768240423

Pro-Palestine protesters shut down London’s Tower Bridge
(Jerusalem Post, 2024-10-20)

https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-825262#825262
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“Pro-Palestine protesters shut down Tower Bridge in #London on Saturday, shortly after thousands attended a mass protest in Trafalgar Square and Whitehall.”

“… the Met Police stated that the groups had been dispersed and several arrests had been made.”

“A group named Youth Demand claimed to have been part of a coalition that organized the event and shut down the bridge.
“Youth Demand said it demanded that the UK government stop arming Israel…”

“The other groups involved were the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Prayers4Gaza, Palestine Pulse, Thanet 4 Palestine, and Ealing Friends of Palestine.”

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  • acargitzEnglish
    12•20 hours ago

    The Jerusalem Post weirdly filing this under the “Diaspora” category?

    • IcebladeEnglish
      -8•18 hours ago

      Probably because it affects jews outside of Israel?

      • acargitzEnglish
        13•17 hours ago

        That’s a weird thing to say. How are protesters blocking a bridge affect British Jews specifically? They didn’t block it only for jews and leave it open for non-jews or something.

        • IcebladeEnglish
          -5•17 hours ago

          This is anecdotal, but anti-israel/pro-palestine actions near where I live have caused peril for people in general and jews in particular. They’re often arranged near synagogues and other places relevant to jewish diaspora communities.

          I can go into more detail if you want, but hence the relevance for jews living outside of Israel.

          If my commute to work for instance were to intersect with such a demonstration I’d do my best to plan another route, for my own safety.

          • acargitzEnglish
            5•14 hours ago

            I know that Jewish diaspora institutions have been extremely unfairly targetted recently.

            TW: attack

            For example, in Montreal and in Toronto there have been disgusting shooting attacks against Jewish schools.

            Thankfully, in the ones I know of, nobody had been hurt, even if it has had a chilling and terrorizing effect. But that’s entirely different.

            A protest in broad daylight in a central space, I don’t understand what kind of “peril” any random Jewish person might be faced with. I mean you will hear rhetoric against Israel and if you show up with an Israeli flag to counter protest you will get yelled at. But that’s not any kind of special peril for the diaspora in general. Show up with a Turkish flag at a Kurdish rally and the same applies. That’s not a peril for diaspora Turks.

  • @NocturnalMorningEnglish
    -15•20 hours ago

    It really bothers me thay they use pro-palestine language, when what this is about is being against genocide.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•19 hours ago

      Being pro-palestine is not at the cost of anyone or anything else. There is no meaningful difference.

      • IcebladeEnglish
        -6•17 hours ago

        I suspect that the OP is referring to pro-hamas and pro-hezbollah actions at the protest. Since both are terror organizations who not only have genocidal goals against jews and christian arabs, but also actively harm and oppress arabs in Israel, Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon.

    • @[email protected]English
      12•21 hours ago

      Are you drawing the line of what is acceptable to protest between protesting for an end to genocide and protesting for the rights of Palestinians to govern themselves, rather than be at the bottom of the hierarchy in an apartheid government?

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      8•21 hours ago

      Anti-genocide and pro-Palestine are the same thing in this case.