Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters hold placards against Britain's new Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Britain's Deputy Prime Minister and Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary Angela Rayner and Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy as they march during the "National March for Gaza," calling to "end the genocide" and "stop arming Israel," on July 6, 2024. (Justin Tallis/AFP)
Metropolitan police say they have arrested four protesters at an anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian rally for breaching public order and another “on suspicion of inciting racial hatred in relation to a placard.”
The area of the protest, outside freshly-elected British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s official residence at 10 Downing St, has been cleared of protesters, police say in a post on X.
Tens of thousands of protesters joined the protest, which was organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, calling for an immediate ceasefire in the ongoing war in Gaza, sparked by Hamas’s October 7 massacre in southern Israel.
Photos show pro-Israel counterprotesters near the rally holding a sign comparing Hamas’s rampage at the Supernova music festival on October 7 to the 2017 Manchester Arena terror attack that left 22 dead.
A pro-Israel demonstrator holds a placard comparing the Nova Festival attacks to the Manchester Arena bombing as pro-Palestinian protesters travel under the Waterloo Bridge during the “National March for Gaza,” on July 6, 2024. (Justin Tallis/AFP)
The terrorist from that attack, Salman Abedi, reportedly supported the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which is backed by re-elected far-left MP Jeremy Corbyn.
The Guardian reports that Corbyn attended the London protest, telling protesters that “a change in government doesn’t change the facts that the people of Gaza are still being murdered in their sleep.”
“We said it to the Tories, and now we will say it to Labour: a government that sells arms to Israel is a government that is complicit in crimes against humanity.”
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