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New York, Chicago, Madrid, Athens, Sydney, Paris, the people march for #Palestine

For the past week, people in their hundreds and thousands took to the streets. In support of the hapless people in Gaza, for Palestine and against the machinations of Israel, backed by the United States and the UK. Chicago was also the scene of a ghastly hate crime when a six year old boy was stabbed while his mother survived the murderous attack

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In Paris, where protests were declared “illegal” people overrode these diktats and marched anyway. Madrid, Spain saw multiple protests over the past week as did New York (with its largest one on Friday October 20). Athens, Greece also saw people marching as did Sydney in Austrialia. Parisians defied an official diktat to protest anyway.

Twenty-one hours back here is what New York witnessed

The tweet on the protest had, by 3.45 p.m. October 21 received 491.6 k views and several thousand likes.

This combined video from last week after the ghastly bombing at the Al-Ahli hospital at Gaza killing at least 500, is powerful

 

Yes, there were free Palestine protests in London, Madrid, Brussels, Berlin, Doha, Dhaka, Bristol, Amman, Cardiff, Duplin, Paris, Sydney, Chicago, Liverpool, Los Angeles, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Damascus.

Jewish Voice for Peace (that is staunchly non-Zionist and speaking against the war crimes of Israel has also been organising sit-ins and protests in the USA. Jewish Voice for Peace @JVPlive defines itself as “Jews organizing towards Palestinian liberation and Judaism beyond Zionism)

October 19, JVP had organised an effective protest at Capitol Hill,Washington DC.

In Harvard, Boston, black students despite harassment and intimidation sustained their protests.

London

On October 19, Jews gathered in London to condemn their government’s stand:

“HAPPENING NOW: 100s of Jews gather at Parliament Square to make clear that we will not let our grief be weaponised to justify genocide. As Rishi Sunak visits Israel, we demand he pushes for: ceasefire now, release the hostages, end the siege on Gaza, “ read the tweet.

Sydney

Though Austrialia elected a conservative party back to power and recently had a referendum that denied indigenous peoples their rights, the people spoke out against the injustices in West Asia.

Madrid, October 16

 

Starbucks Workers unite

Meanwhile Starbucks Workers have unitedly stood behind Palestine and also in a public statement and poster called out their management for vilifying the union

In stark contrast, India that once proudly led the Non-Alligned Movement (NAM) and the rest of south Asia has been eerily silent. In some places like Delhi and Mumbai where protesters did take to the streets, including Uttar Pradesh, their was a “police crackdown.” The UP chief minister Ajay Bisht aka Adityanath going as far as to “threaten” protesters.

Here is a demonstration on South Korea

And here is Turkey

 

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