Mass riot outside Israeli embassy, Kensington High street!

Free Palestine | 03.01.2009 16:04

Get down to Kensington High Street now! There is a mass riot involving thousands of people going on right now and the Israeli embassy is very close to being stormed. This is an event not to be missed!

The Israeli embassy is very close to being stormed right now as I type as just down the street in Kensington High Street thousands of Palestinian supportters are battling riot police and attempting to storm the Israel embassy. The police are only just about managing to hold out but will soon surely be overwhlemed by the raging crowds of angry people. Get down there right now if you can!

Free Palestine

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Good Luck

03.01.2009 16:15

Hope you get to burn the place down!

Bob

Can anyone confirm this report?

03.01.2009 16:38

Can anyone confirm this report?

Jam Cam

03.01.2009 16:52

For kensington is not up?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/webcams/546641.shtml

Bob

Portents of gloom

03.01.2009 17:02

Sign of worse to come? A ball always starts rolling somewhere.

The world's folk are getting very depressed, more and more agitated every minute. Even meek and mild folk become depressed, restless, frantic, agitated, frustrated, full of despair, of deprivation, etc., all maybe culminating in their wrath being vented. Real gloomy!

Francis H. Giles
mail e-mail: francis@fgiles.orangehome.co.uk

Further Details on Riot

03.01.2009 17:19

Times article on the event:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5408132.ece

Sophia Hoffmann

Gloom?

03.01.2009 17:30

Gloomy indeed but real change only occurs in times of crisis!

General Degenerate

Sophia, this is date 28th Dec

03.01.2009 17:34

Its not a report about today!

Bob

Report rather old no?

03.01.2009 17:36

The riot report is a bit old now:
"From Times Online December 28, 2008 Violent protests at Israeli Embassy in London"

In case you haven't been keeping up, it's already 2009!

Anyone else have anything more useful to aid those who may wish to show their solidarity?

out of date

03.01.2009 17:37

that times articles was for December 28th!

What I have heard is that around 1,000 people led a breakaway march and were stopped by the TSG.

Anarchist

So the main post...

03.01.2009 17:43

So the main post is probably bollocks then?
Shame, would have been great!

not bollocks

03.01.2009 18:14

After the rally, a smaller group of about 2,000 protesters marched on the Israeli Embassy in west London, and some youths scuffled with police and hurled objects at officers in riot gear. Police said there were no initial reports of arrests.

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jkioAdioC4yPmEERbKKXTfFY0yRAD95FPQG00

transmitter

Israeli artillery start shelling Gaza// 7000 in Berlin - but left boycott

03.01.2009 18:14

Just googled this news bits:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L3519407.htm

Been to the demo in Berlin. Impressive raging mass of mostly young turks and arabs who could hardly by held back by stewarts. Was a tense and nervous athmosphere.

But the German left, especially the radical left (antifa and anarchists) VIRTUALLY boycotted the march. ONE! "Black & Red" Flag, 5 communsist/ trots flags, 10 flags of the left party; and with almost each of them holding one it was no more than a block of 20 ethnic German and left wing supporters.

CAN U BELIEVE IT?

bob

@ bob

03.01.2009 18:26

Unfortunately Bob I can believe that about the demo in Berlin. The problem in Germany is that a small milieu of former leftists have developed far-right pro-Israeli positions which denounce the Palestinian resistance as antisemitic and fascist. They are a small minority in the German leftist milieu but they have succeeded in confusing and demoralising a much larger number of people. Hence the low turnout.

Tim Vanhoof
mail e-mail: timvanhoof@gmx.net

Not bollocks...

03.01.2009 18:29

Not bollocks, just over-enthusiastic reporting then?

What joke, dont waste people time

03.01.2009 18:31

It is not happening, lier, the main report is BULLSHIT.

Dont waste peoples time and carry on dreaming, live a life of dreams while
others live the real life.

Wanker.

Kiko

German anarchists & co.

03.01.2009 18:31

Bob, I do believe your report about anarchists boycotting the demo, because I lived 7 years in germany and i know the germans still cannot get their facts right, when it comes to israel/palestine.
They are more active when it comes to animal rights, but that's the fact about all western leftists. Arabs make fun out of it, and rightly so.

Anna
mail e-mail: anna@palestyna.com.pl

anna

03.01.2009 18:48

Anna, Arabs make fun out of westerns because they protest about treatment of animals!?
Well they can fuk off then. They seem to have great joy in sacrificing animals in the name of a make-belief god. Can i make fun of that?

tik

IDF start ground offensive

03.01.2009 18:58

Israeli and other agencies say: After hours long shelling from sea, land and air, the ground offensive on Gaza starts

http://www.ynetnews.com/home/0,7340,L-3083,00.html

Bob

FFS

03.01.2009 19:16

Unfortunately all of the worlds ills cannot be tackled at once and animal rights in my opinion should be quite far down on the agenda. To judge a culture as barbaric because of traditions passed down over centuries is just stupid, remember we only just banned fox hunting ourselves.

General Degenerate

Israeli public opinion

03.01.2009 19:25

I read a story in the Independent today and a poll had shown that over 70% of Israeli's were in support of the offensive. I have always been disgusted by the actions of Israel as a state but have generally felt that the general population have been victims of circumstance, sold hard line policies under false pretences, been influenced and indoctrinated by the media and state aparatus.

Are they victims as well or simply serving their own interests?

General Degenerate

true by the look of things

03.01.2009 20:02

Not there but bbc has reported unrest at embassy

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7809656.stm

*9*9*9*

ISMers: Gaza refugee camp being shelled

03.01.2009 21:42

Here´s a German posting by someone who foned Gaza before the line broke off as tanks moved in.

http://de.indymedia.org/2009/01/238114.shtml

One addition claims he foned Gaza and desperately asks every 1 to spread to public that IDF Tanks shell refugee camp were ISM activists support the ambulance of Red Cresc and medics.
vom osten her...
jabalya 03.01.2009 - 21:19
habe gerade mit einem aktivisten des ism in jabalya telephoniert. jabalya wird von panzern beschossen, die jedoch noch an der grenze stehen und ins camp schiessen (jabalya camp: ca. 2 qkm, ca. 100 000 bewohnerInnen)
nach beit hanoun und beit lahiya geht momentan immer noch keine telephonverbindung.

Samstag, 3. Januar 2009, 18:30, Gaza:

For imediate publishing!
Zur umgehenden Veröffentlichung

Personen mit ausländischer Staatsangehörigkeit begleiten medizinisches Hilfspersonal und Ärzte im nördlichen Gaza-Streifen, während die israelischen Angriffe zunehmen

Die AktivistInnen werden Krankenwagen und medizinische Helfer in Djabalia, Beit Lahia und Beit Hanoun begleiten, deren Basis die nördliche Station des Roten Halbmondes in Djabalia ist.
“Splitter eines 10cm-Schrapnell fliegen gerade in die Station des Roten Halbmondes. Das Ambulanz-Team schafft es wegen des heftigen israelischen Beschusses der Gegend nicht, die Verletzten zu erreichen,“ so Alberto Acre (Spanien) vom International Solidarity Movement.
“Die Ambulanzteams haben uns um internationale Unterstüztung gebeten, also werden wir von der nördlichen Roten-Halbmond-Station aus arbeiten. Wir arbeiten schon seit drei Tagen mit diesen Teams zusammen und sie haben uns in die Erste Hilfe eingewiesen.“ Sharon Lock (Australien), ISM
Andere internationale MenschenrechtsaktivistInnen sind unterdessen in Rafah und Gaza Stadt stationiert. Internationale Menschenrechtsaktivsitinnen fahren im Gaza-Streifen seit der Ermordung des Sanitäters Mohammed Abu Hassera und des Arztes Dr Ihab Al Mathoon am 31.12.08 durch israelische Raketen in Krankenwagen mit.
@21:19

just in

A "nice one" which reveals the German antifa mindset

03.01.2009 21:47

at bottom of posting

http://de.indymedia.org/2009/01/238114.shtml some 1 says:

"Straßenkampf in Gaza-Stadt
antifa 03.01.2009 - 22:14
Straßenkampf in Gaza-Stadt,
Antifa mach die Hamas platt!"

Translation:

Street fighting in Gaza Town
Antifa flattens Hamas down.

just in

"Protesters clash with police"

03.01.2009 22:23

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Protests-Against-Israeli-Attacks-On-Gaza-Turn-Violent-As-Tens-Of-Thousands-Take-To-The-Streets/Article/200901115196923?lpos=UK_News_News_Your_Way_Region_7&lid=NewsYourWay_ARTICLE_15196923_Protests_Against_Israeli_Attacks_On_Gaza_Turn_Violent_As_Tens_Of_Thousands_Take_To_The_Streets

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article5439500.ece

name sake

VIDEO - Attacking riot police

03.01.2009 23:43

http://youtube.com/watch?v=8iQyXXsBBQ0

watcher

@General Degenerate

04.01.2009 00:31

> Are they victims as well or simply serving their own interests?

Its depends. Afterall people's thoughts are just a combination of chemical reactions and electrical impulses in the brain. If you don't believe in God and that people have souls, then what a person does is not truely free will, it is just chemical molecules following laws of physics. If you do believe in God, who is all knowing and powerful, then again people don't have free will because God has created and knows everything in advance.

So in essence, you can't blame Israel.

tim

"the fact about all western leftists"

04.01.2009 00:36

Anna, are you deliberately trying to offend many people who would support the Gazans?

Cos any International Solidarity Movement would accentuate what we hold in common, not what divides us. I know vegan Arabs who would be deeply offended by your generalisation.

I can't imagine there are too many Gazans who are worried about global warming tonight - so can the Greens also be considered unwelcome at the Gaza demos?

If you spoke out of anger then get a fucking grip and direct it properly instead of sabotaging the cause you claim to support.

Daniel

we support Gazans even though we think their religion is bullshit

04.01.2009 02:12

I am guessing most of us here think that all religions: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, are just dogmatic, irrational and brainwashing bullshit. I would quite happily piss on the Bible, the Torah or the Koran. But we still support the Gazans (is that the right word?) against the Israeli bombardment just because it is the right thing to do; to support the oppressed. I am vegan and will still support them even if they are meat eaters or whatever, that is a separate issue, just as religion is too.

@non

Centre of empire

04.01.2009 03:39

"But we still support the Gazans (is that the right word?)"

Apolopgies if it isn't - and I doubt it is in Arabaic. I meant a resident of Gaza. I doubt any Glaswegian or Edinburgher or Dundonian would feel happy with the wrong term but I also doubt they would complain if we all supported them when they were being bombarded against longstanding international law. It has been a war-crime to indiscrimatorily bombabrd civilians for more than two centuries, which shows what a fake the law is.

I asked a Palestinian who had survived Shabrilla once what she thought of Arab/Muslim hostility to Palestinaians and she replied plaintavely, 'Palestinians are are always the victims'. Over all, she is obviously correct.

You can see how biased our media is tonight, I could prove that tommorow. Now is a time for actions not recriminations. There are posters here who are absent because they are in Gaza, in ambulances, who are unlikely to live through this. We in the UK should be taking the same risks because this is the centre of empire and we can have more effect here. One dead Briton is worth 1000 dead Gazans to our media.

Daniel