{"id":2295,"date":"2014-08-09T19:27:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-09T19:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=2295"},"modified":"2014-08-09T19:38:06","modified_gmt":"2014-08-09T19:38:06","slug":"150000-march-in-biggest-london-rally-yet-for-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/150000-march-in-biggest-london-rally-yet-for-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"150,000 march in biggest London rally yet for Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"UK<\/a>David Cameron\u2019s failure to condemn Israel\u2019s massacre in Gaza was attacked by MPs and other speakers today at a mass rally in London\u2019s Hyde Park in support of the Palestinians. Speakers also called for sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel.
\nMore than 150,000 people marched from the BBC studios in Portland Place, past the US embassy in Grosvenor Square to Hyde Park, in a protest called by Palestine Solidairty Campaign and other organisations.
\nIt was the third mass march through London in support of Gaza in three weeks. It was also the biggest, and formed part of a global Day of Rage, with people marching in cities across the globe to show solidarity with Gaza under attack.
\nCoaches carried protesters to London from as far afield as Scotland, while other towns and cities in the UK also held their own protests and vigils for the Palestinians.
\nQuotes from speakers in Hyde Park:
\n\"Gaza<\/a>Sarah Colborne, Director of Palestine Solidarity Campaign: \u201cWe are here to send a message to our government that we are ashamed, we are sick and we are disgusted at the massacre in Gaza and the British government\u2019s complicity. There are people from different political parties and every section of society, people of all faiths and people of none, who say \u2018sanctions now, free Palestine\u2019.\u201d
\nRushanara Ali, MP for Bethnal Green and Bow (Labour): \u201cI have a message for Mr Cameron. He has failed to show courage, he has failed to show leadership, he is a disgrace to our country. He is a disgrace because he has failed to speak up against injustice, because he has failed to do anything about the sale of arms that can be used, and are being used, by Israel to kill and suppress. Britian deserves a Prime Minister who speaks the truth and challenges injustice, not just in Gaza, but in the West Bank. Let\u2019s pledge today to keep up the pressure on this dreadful government to stop the violence.\u201d
\nTariq Ali, writer and journalist: \u201cThere is a basic point that has to be made to our politicians. They have to understand that there is no equivalence betweeen the Palestinian resistance and the Israeli occupation. When a country is occupied, resistance emerges. If you want no rockets being fired, no tunnels being dug, get out of Gaza.\u201d
\nDiane Abbott, MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington (Labour): \u201cBritish people of all colours and all political parties stand in solidarity with the people of Gaza. This is the best demonstration yet in support of Gaza and David Cameron needs to know that we will keep up the pressure until he takes a stand that is morally defensible.\u201d
\n\"Gaza<\/a>Glyn Secker, Jews for Justice for Palestinians: \u201cToday, an image remains in my mind. It is the image of a Palestinian father carrying the flesh of his son in a plastic bag. As a Jew, I will not ever be associated with these monstrosities. Never in my name, never in my life, never in my children\u2019s life.\u201d
\nSeamus Milne, Guardian columnist and associate editor: \u201cIsrael is in illegal occupation of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel has no right to defend itself from territories it occupies. It only has an obligation to withdraw. The Palestinians are an occupied people. They have a right to defend themselves from the occupier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Owen Jones, writer and commentator: \u201cOur governments fund, arm and support Israel. They are complicit in every single Israel attack, with every single maiming, with every single death. But, as apartheid fell, the occupation of Palestine will fall as well.\u201d
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