M&S picket-15/01/04
Fiona Brown | 16.01.2004 04:28 | Anti-racism | London
Picket of Marks and Spencer – 15/01/04, London
Victory to the Intifada!
It was very wet, very windy and very cold, but that did not deter lots of people from joining the regular Thursday picket on Oxford Street to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people who suffer oppression, humiliation and degradation every day at the hands of the Israeli state. Our banners were torn by the wind, our placards soggy, but information was distributed and our voices were clearly heard urging shoppers to boycott Marks and Spencer for the huge financial and ideological support they give to the violent, racist, expansionist State of Israel. Our fair-weathered fascist Zionist opposition (Betar) numbered just five, their pathetic vitriol drowned out by the passion and enthusiasm of sopping Palestinian supporters, some of whom joined the picket spontaneously from the street, defying the weather.
The picket was dedicated today to the memory of Tom Hurndall, the British international solidarity activist who was deliberately shot in the head by the Israeli army last April while he was trying to help Palestinian children in Rafah. Tom died two days ago at the age of 22. His body was unable to recover from the fatal bullet wound. Picketers held a one-minute silence to commemorate the young man who was mercilessly murdered for seeking justice and dignity for the brutally persecuted Palestinian people.
Tom’s fight continues in the struggle to build a movement in Britain denouncing Israel and its integral policy of ethnic cleansing, to which the British government remains an advocate. Marks and Spencer’s sales are reportedly down 4% on last year – let’s make sure they fall further this year. The boycott focussing on M&S as the biggest British corporate sponsor of Israel could send the clearest message to Israel and all its supporters that the Palestinians will not be forgotten, nor their oppression and murder tolerated.
Israel has now almost completely sealed off the Gaza Strip to foreign observers and humanitarian assistance organisations. Even employees of the World Bank have difficulty entering. Israel does not want the world to see the crimes it is committing. That is why it is so important to spread the information about what the Zionists and Israel have done, what Israel is perpetrating now and what it is capable of inflicting on an innocent but indigenous and not Jewish population.
End All Racism! Down with Israel! Free Palestine!
Join the movement: Every Thursday 6-8pm, M&S Marble Arch, Oxford Street, London
Contact us:
victoryintifada@hotmail.com
Victory to the Intifada!
It was very wet, very windy and very cold, but that did not deter lots of people from joining the regular Thursday picket on Oxford Street to show their solidarity with the Palestinian people who suffer oppression, humiliation and degradation every day at the hands of the Israeli state. Our banners were torn by the wind, our placards soggy, but information was distributed and our voices were clearly heard urging shoppers to boycott Marks and Spencer for the huge financial and ideological support they give to the violent, racist, expansionist State of Israel. Our fair-weathered fascist Zionist opposition (Betar) numbered just five, their pathetic vitriol drowned out by the passion and enthusiasm of sopping Palestinian supporters, some of whom joined the picket spontaneously from the street, defying the weather.
The picket was dedicated today to the memory of Tom Hurndall, the British international solidarity activist who was deliberately shot in the head by the Israeli army last April while he was trying to help Palestinian children in Rafah. Tom died two days ago at the age of 22. His body was unable to recover from the fatal bullet wound. Picketers held a one-minute silence to commemorate the young man who was mercilessly murdered for seeking justice and dignity for the brutally persecuted Palestinian people.
Tom’s fight continues in the struggle to build a movement in Britain denouncing Israel and its integral policy of ethnic cleansing, to which the British government remains an advocate. Marks and Spencer’s sales are reportedly down 4% on last year – let’s make sure they fall further this year. The boycott focussing on M&S as the biggest British corporate sponsor of Israel could send the clearest message to Israel and all its supporters that the Palestinians will not be forgotten, nor their oppression and murder tolerated.
Israel has now almost completely sealed off the Gaza Strip to foreign observers and humanitarian assistance organisations. Even employees of the World Bank have difficulty entering. Israel does not want the world to see the crimes it is committing. That is why it is so important to spread the information about what the Zionists and Israel have done, what Israel is perpetrating now and what it is capable of inflicting on an innocent but indigenous and not Jewish population.
End All Racism! Down with Israel! Free Palestine!
Join the movement: Every Thursday 6-8pm, M&S Marble Arch, Oxford Street, London
Contact us:
victoryintifada@hotmail.com
Fiona Brown
e-mail:
victoryintifada@hotmail.com
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