Victory to the Intifada’s (VTI) mobilisation brought over 80 protesters on to Oxford Street with banners, placards and street theatre. They joined the weekly picket supporting the Palestinian struggle by opposing M&S’s corporate sponsorship of the State of Israel. The picket is now facing opposition from Zionists and BNP members who for two weeks in a row have set up a stall supporting Israel. They fly the Union Jack alongside the Israeli flag and hand out leaflets defending Israeli supremacy in the Middle East. Zionists who justify the existence of the State of Israel by reference to the Holocaust are standing shoulder to shoulder with virulent Holocaust deniers.
M&S trade with Israel to the tune of £250 million per year, sell goods made in the Occupied Territories labelled as made in Israel and have openly stated that ‘one of its fundamental objectives is aiding the economic development of Israel’ (Lord Marcus Sieff, M&S Chairman 1999).
Victory to the Intifada have been targeting M&S for almost three years with pickets outside various stores around Britain to highlight British involvement in the ongoing war against the Palestinians.
On tonight’s lively and noisy protest, VTI members and supporters were joined by members of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Green Ribbon, Indymedia and others.
Against the background racist drivel of the fascists, the M&S picketers told the passing public about the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the daily atrocities against the Palestinians that go unreported in the mass media. Loud chanting drowned out the fascists/Zionists who used the fact that today is the second anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre to express their racist sentiments about Arabs and Muslims. However demonstrators picketing M&S exposed how this date coincided with Europe’s biggest arms fair held in east London (DSEi), where one of the main sellers of anti-personel weapons, including cluster bombs, is Israel.
Victory to the Intifada!
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Down with British Labour support for Zionist Israel!
Oppose fascism in all its forms!
Join the picket every Thursday from 6-8pm outside M&S Oxford Street Marble Arch.
Victory to the Intifada have been targeting M&S for almost three years with pickets outside various stores around Britain to highlight British involvement in the ongoing war against the Palestinians.
On tonight’s lively and noisy protest, VTI members and supporters were joined by members of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee (MPAC), the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), Green Ribbon, Indymedia and others.
Against the background racist drivel of the fascists, the M&S picketers told the passing public about the Israeli occupation of Palestine and the daily atrocities against the Palestinians that go unreported in the mass media. Loud chanting drowned out the fascists/Zionists who used the fact that today is the second anniversary of the attack on the World Trade Centre to express their racist sentiments about Arabs and Muslims. However demonstrators picketing M&S exposed how this date coincided with Europe’s biggest arms fair held in east London (DSEi), where one of the main sellers of anti-personel weapons, including cluster bombs, is Israel.
Victory to the Intifada!
Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!
Down with British Labour support for Zionist Israel!
Oppose fascism in all its forms!
Join the picket every Thursday from 6-8pm outside M&S Oxford Street Marble Arch.
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Make sense!
12.09.2003 00:14
Saladin
Reply to earlier comment
12.09.2003 01:04
(I didn't attend the demo, however, I'm a member of several organisations, including PSC, STWC and (tradgically) the SWP and Socialist Alliance, and attend various forms of demonstration regularly).
Rebel W
Not making sense
12.09.2003 15:37
Who is Dave Spart?
concerned with the truth
24.11.2003 17:03
i read on one web page about the jewish links of Marks and Spencer and wonder how people can be upset with a company supporting its historical location, yet on another one that 'M&S is supporting Zionism' ...
i always think that there are more than two sides to every story but what is the truth? Surely your problem is with the Israeli government and not Marks and Spencer? If i moved to Turkey and invested in the British economy would that be seen in a similar light? Im not trying to cause an offensive reaction ... just concerned with the truth ... what does 'some' products are labelled from isreal that aren't really - is that 10, 100 or 1000?
in any case ive not bought anything from M&S in years but that doesn't really help anyone
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