It’s Not a Hate-March. It’s A Call for Justice.
Hi, I know I haven’t actually posted anything on this website for almost two years but oh well, the internet is permanent, and I haven’t had much to say for about that long. Not anything I was willing to put to my name forever, anyway.
But this… this I needed to say something about.
Today, as I’m writing this on November 11th, there was a pro-Palestine protest in London. These have been going on every Saturday for a month now. And until now, there have never been any issues. However, because of the incitement to violence our Home Secretary feels is appropriate for her station, a lot of ‘counter-protesters’ turned up. They were at the cenotaph, fighting with the police. So much for ‘defending’ the monument.
Suella Braverman is aware that you need to be careful of the message you put out there because words are powerful. The biggest march for Palestine there has been so far has been hijacked by people talking about the far-right mob that turned up to cause trouble.
And make no mistake, the marches are working. France, who have a reputation the same as or even worse than us when it comes to colonisation, have called for a ceasefire. People cannot stand with Israel, who have been committing countless war-crimes everyday since this ‘conflict’ started.
By calling it a ‘hate-march’ Suella Braverman misrepresents everything the protesters stand for. I’ve never been to one, but I stand with them in calling for a ceasefire and a free Palestine. It doesn’t deserve to be subjugated as a settler colony like it has been for the last 75 years.
Every time Israel commits an atrocity on the Palestinian people, people pay attention and then it dies down. It happened in 2021, when peaceful protestors were shot simply for protesting and that viral video of an American man literally stealing a house from its owner came out. “If I don’t steal it, someone else will.’
And by the way, a free Palestine does not mean anything needs to happen to Israel except that they learn to co-exist with the native people who were there before them. Give them back their own land, take all the soldiers off the property and if you want their resources… pay them.
I can’t get my head around the needless cruelty. They shoot Palestinians for growing their own produce. They cut down olive trees that take decades to grow. They need permission to build their own water wells or to leave Palestine to get medical treatment. Could you imagine living that way?
The West, according to itself, is meant to be a bastion of justice. How can that be true when government leaders have refused to condemn the actions of the Israeli government? They have been attacking schools, hospitals, religious sites and random people’s houses. This isn’t an accident. Their government have admitted they are doing it on purpose, and no one is doing anything about it. War-crimes only mean something if every time a country commits them, especially on this scale, there are consequences.
They need peace, they need justice.
We need to be a part of that.
Sources:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-67366165
https://jacobin.com/2023/11/west-bank-israeli-settlers-palestinian-olive-trees-violence-occupation
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-67385617
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/campaigns/2017/11/the-occupation-of-water/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w172z09qw2jkn7z
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNqozQ8uaV8
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/02/israel-endgame-gaza-strikes-goal-plan/
