Over 500,000 march in London on 32nd national demonstration for Palestine. BBC ‘local news’
Over 500,000 people marched in central London on 11th October on what was the 32nd national demonstration for Palestine since 2023. Unless you were there or already aware you could be forgiven for not noticing.
The BBC carried a brief report on its local news section for London. It was not however ‘local news for local people’ but a national protest. It did manage to cover as the lead item on its news site a pro-Trump rally in Tel Aviv
Tens of thousands attend pro-Palestinian march in London – BBC News
The Guardian’s reporting was almost equally perfunctory, although it has managed to post details of Palestinian protests in Australia on its main page (good)
What accounts for this failure to report a London demonstration several times bigger than that ‘organised’ by Stephen Yaxley Lennon a few weeks ago. It received wall to wall media coverage with politicians saying that those attending had ‘legitimate concerns’ despite the fascist presence at its core.
The reality is the march represented and was clearly demonstrating things that the Government does not wish to hear and also things it does not want others to hear as well.
After all the Government is still selling arms to Israel, still trading with the country and Starmer is closely involved with the proposed imperial carve up of Gaza which will benefit the rich and powerful.
Unsurprisingly in a further authoritarian lurch Starmer and Mahmood want to ‘crackdown’ and curtail the protests and Starmer wants to ban people from chanting things he doesn’t agree with..
Still 500,000 plus on the streets might give even them some pause for thought.
The picture btw is from the official twitter account of the Met Police. Despite the Met’s recent return to ‘estimating’ numbers on protests they have been silent about October 11th
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