Pix of 'Free Palestine' demonstration, Sat 22 May 05 - Set 2 of 2

Tim D Jones | 23.05.2005 13:16 | Anti-militarism | Anti-racism | London

Stills and a movie clip from Saturday's lively and colourful demonstration for a Palestine free from Zionist oppression and occupation.

For permission to copy and use, see CopyLeft at the end of the story below the photos.
For a link to the other set of photos, see one of the comments at the foot of this page.

Video VICTORY TO THE INTIFADA! - video/mpeg 1.2M

Passing by Westminster tube

Marching on a broad front

Thinks: "Why doesn't that blinkin' snapper get out the bleedin' way?"

There's no justice, just us

Jews for justice for Palestinians

Anti-imperialism pulls in a youthful crowd

Pausing for pedestrians crossing at Parliament Square

That's the second Oxford PSC banner I photographed

Got wheels? Come on down and demonstrate – 1

Doggies do demonstrations too

Then raise the scarlet standard high, within its shade we'll live and die

National Association of Teachers in Further Education

Welsh reds raise a rumpus

Sing Freedom!

Got wheels? Come on down and demonstrate – 2

Folding bikes for freedom (mine included, but not in shot)

The end of the demonstration

Between photographing the Uzbek Embassy protest against the Andijan/Pakhtabad massacres, and attending a public forum celebrating the 1905 revolution in Russia, I just had time to record the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's relatively small but vocal and enthusiastic 'Free Palestine – End Israeli Occupation' demonstration; details:

http://www.palestinecampaign.org/events.asp?d=y&id=1430

With the insurgency against the brutal US/UK occupation of Iraq making most of the running in the mainstream media's middle-eastern coverage, perhaps the relative side-lining of Israeli state barbarism (not that it ever gets the breadth or depth of condemnatory stories it deserves) has had a knock-on effect on the size of this annual demonstration. However, as a friend who was on the whole demonstration and at the concluding Trafalgar Square rally pointed out, size isn't everything – the quality of the people protesting put her in mind of folks who don't just show up for another A to B march once a year, but spend plenty of time in between on the nitty-gritty of solidarity campaign work. And indeed, the recent controversy over UK lecturers' unions' backing an academic boycott of Israeli universities may well have something to do with the sizeable contingents of teachers, lecturers and even schoolchildren on the demo.

If you're moved to demonstrate practical international solidarity with our Palestinian sisters and brothers, I recommend checking out the direct action stylings of the International Solidarity Movement:

http://www.ism-london.org.uk and

http://www.palsolidarity.org

For the most politically astute coverage and analysis of the ever-deepening middle-eastern crisis, I recommend the International Communist Current's 'Israel/Palestine' portal page:

http://en.internationalism.org/taxonomy/term/145

This event was organised by the UK's Palestine Solidarity Campaign:

http://www.palestinecampaign.org
Supported by: Muslim Association of Britain, Jews for Justice for Palestinians, Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Al Aqsa, War on Want, National Union of Teachers, Trade Union Friends of Palestine, Palestinian Forum in Britain

In International Solidarity,

Tim D Jones

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Comments

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How about stopping the suicide bombings?

23.05.2005 13:37

I never see you lot protesting about the numerous suicide bombings in Israel in which Jews are killed just because they are Jews! Also I never see you protest about human rights abuses in arab countries like Suadia Arab, Eygpt and Algeria which has far worse human rights records than Israel.

Tom

Pictures, What Pictures?

23.05.2005 15:36

Hmmm… status line shows .jpg’s loading… but they don’t appear :-{ W'happen?

I've emailed

imc-uk-tech@lists.indymedia.org and

www-newswire@lists.indymedia.org to alert 'em to this novel failure mode -- maybe something to do with the server migration this last weekend. When the problem's fixed, I hope the fixer will also remove this comment.

Tom -- our readers and your Israeli-apologist self might like to ask yourselves some questions:
Would the IRB and the IRA have existed if the British state had not used Scottish presbytarian planters in Ulster to keep Ireland divided, ruled and dominated by the British Empire, its police and army?
Would the WWII French resistance movement have existed without the Nazi military occupation?
Would Umkhonto We Sizwe (the military wing of the ANC) have existed without the RSA state repression of aparthied?
Would the insurgency in Iraq exist without the UK/US military occupation?
Would Palestinian and Islamic terrorism against Israel and her US paymasters exist if Palestine hadn't been raped, pillaged and occupied by the apartheid Israeli state since 1948?
Would human rights abuses occur in "Suadia Arab, Eygpt and Algeria" (sic) if first the British Empire and now the US Empire had not used Jewish planters in Palestine* to divide and rule the arab nations they arbitrarily created and continue to dominate?

*"Sir Ronald Storrs, the first governor of Jerusalem under British rule
in the 1920s, explained [the creation of an Israeli settler state] as
"forming for England a 'little loyal Jewish Ulster' in a sea of
potentially hostile Arabism". A lifetime later, that is essentially the role
played by Israel for the US and wider western interests today. It also
helps explain the licence given to the Middle East's only nuclear-armed
state to violate UN security council resolutions at will and why even
the EU is unlikely to agree to the economic or military sanctions
demanded yesterday by the European parliament."
Seumas Milne, "Our friends in Jenin" in The Guardian, Thursday April
11, 2002

In the logical limit, only the coming world-wide revolution -- in sweeping away national borders, the global market economy, and the uneven development to which western imperialim has subjected the world -- stands any chance of resolving these conflicts of decadent, decomposing capitalism.

Tim D Jones

re: Tom's post

23.05.2005 16:06

oh lord......i swear there is some sad Zionist who checks the pages of indymedia like every 30 seconds, scanning the articles for mentions of "Israel".

Get a life dude.

yawn

How to stop suicidal bombing in israel

23.05.2005 16:22

Dear Tom, we do stand up against suicidal bombs in Israel, but we understand as long as the zionist power is killing palestinians and occuping by violence lands that have never belong to them, the suicidal bombers will persist..
Those who are been killed anyway are not scare to lose their lives, can you understand this?? I know you can't. STOP ZIONISM!!!

kacho

The State of Israel-Serving the Palestinian Community since 1948

23.05.2005 16:50

Heres a scenario for tom. A new country is founded in North France in 1948. THis country from 1948 til now has constantly been growing because its now moved into british land and just keeps expanding further north. The land it seizes is used to house more of its people causing the ppl that lived there to become refugees. But it doesnt stop there. THis country isnt satisfied with this. It wants to kill as many men women and children in the UK as it expands. This has been going on since 1948 and the UN (what a pile of shit that organisation is) has had to create more than one resolution a year (69 from 1956-92) because this country keeps breaking the previous ones. Poor British. What can they be thinking when they see world leaders cosy up to israel and not care less about the crimes its committing on every front. Do you think that if you lived in Britain and had experienced decades of suffering and torment and every peaceful movements you tried (say the British Intifada) had been crushed, do u think maybe just maybe ud consider doing what the suicide bombers do. THink about it, ur all alone, no one can hear ur cries, and uve seen loved ones die for the fascist purposes of a nation. Its easy for you to say i wouldnt but that just goes to show how fucking blind you are.

The Anti-Tom

Links Comment

24.05.2005 10:46

Here are clickable links to two sets of photos of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's 'Free Palestine – End Israeli Occupation' demonstration, Sat 21 May 05 (and one to the photos I took at the Uzbek Embassy Demonstration which preceded it).

Set 1 of 2

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/05/311674.html

Set 2 of 2

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/05/311654.html

See also: Pix of Uzbek Embassy Demonstration, Sat 21 May 05

http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/london/2005/05/311693.html

Tim D Jones
mail e-mail: tim_d_jones@yahoo.co.uk