cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/30276408
By Imran Mulla
Published date: 17 May 2025 17:59 BST"It was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Compaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War, the Palestinian Forum in Britain and other pro-Palestine groups.
Protesters came from around the country, including from Wales and northern England. Stop the War said the demonstration was attended by an estimated 600,000 people, making it the biggest since November 2023."
In the UK the vast majority of people support Palestine, regardless of what the establishment says and it’s seen as more of a centrist viewpoint rather than something only tankies support as american politicians like accusing supporters of, in fact it’s like that almost anywhere but the states cuz its always been a backwards country
I have the utmost contempt for the sociopath British politicians and the utmost respect for the 600,000 Britons whose Humanity sits above all and actually got of their asses and showed it to the World.
600k is a lot of people going to jail, and I bet they will do it too.
They started releasing prisoners early cuz they were nearing full capacity, they are NOT housing those 600k, it’s not physically possible.
Are you from Britain? Is that probable? I wouldn’t think so, but I might be wrong.
600k people being jailed? Very unlikely, the UK doesn’t even have 200k serving police officers in total and prisoners have been released early because there’s simply no space left for them. I’d be surprised if even 1% were arrested. The UK brought in some super draconian protest laws recently though, so no doubt there will be some, especially given what the protest is for.
I am not from Britain, thankfuly for Britain.
Thanks britbongs.
It’s absurd how many governments are more loyal to Israel than their own citizens.
Well, Britain also has the very special situation, that the people in the current Government were pretty much given their position by Israel, who used Israeli-linked Jewish associations in the UK for a campaign of accusations of anti-semitism against the previous leader of party (which is one of the two dominant parties in an FPTP system hence was bound to be next in Government), a campaign which was so extreme that at one point a Jewish Holocaust Survivor was accused of anti-semitism for what he said about Israel in a conference on Palestine, in order to taint by association said party leader as he was in the same panel in that conference when the words were said.
Israel bought the individuals in the current British Government, not with money but with the biggest favor in their lives.
This is why even though they’re supposedly a left-of-center party (though in practice the current faction in power in it are pure neoliberals after having got the previous - leftwing - leader out as I described above), they keep on supporting an ethno-Fascist White colonialist regime even against a public opposition so large that a large fraction of the British population not merely complained about it and stayed home, but actually took to the street to demonstrate against it even though a far away Genocide is not the kind of thing that affects them directly.
It’s an age thing.
Most higher level government officials tend to be around boomer age. And over their lifetime they’ve grown to trust traditional-media more than almost anything. And these days the most major outlets are focused eniterly on revenue, so most of them heavily self-censor.
You’d be shocked at how many people in their 60s literally do not know a fraction of what has been going on there.
Amazing considering how the media has been lying to them their whole life.
They are the way they are because the media has been lying to them their entire lives.
It’s hard to discern propaganda when propaganda is your baseline.
The Zios just laugh at this. They think everyone of these people is either a Hamas supporter or jumping on the bandwagon of hating Jews.
They also know that they have the political and media class in US and Europe eating out of their hands and that real consequences like Sanctions or isolation will never happen.
They are counting on people forgetting about the genocide once everyone is dead and buried or ethnically cleansed and after they use propaganda like Eurovision and their allies in the media to make people love israel again.
This isn’t far fetched either. It’s exactly what happened after 1948.
Zios don’t actually believe “everyone who opposes us is Hamas or antisemitic”. They’re a religious nationalist movement — other wise known as fascism — wilfully committing genocide and colonising foreign land for their own profit/power.
Just like MAGAzi’s in the states, everyone who opposes their actions, no matter how criminal or corrupt their actions are, is “the enemy”.
