Demonstrators risk arrest if they join a protest march late on Monday, organised by the Palestine Action Group from Sydney Town Hall to New South Wales Parliament, which falls in an area authorities have designated as a special protected area during Herzog's visit. Palestine Action Group failed in a legal challenge in a Sydney court on Monday against the restrictions placed on the demonstration.
Police are braced as protesters are to descend on central London, as concerns were raised over the proximity between pro-Palestine and UK Independence Party (UKIP) rallies. Two counter protests to the right-wing UKIP demo are planned in London tomorrow. Conditions mean each set of protesters are obliged to remain in areas defined by police, with pro-Palestinian demonstrators contained between Downing Street and Whitehall Place and Ukip supporters within the north terrace of Trafalgar Square.
According to a Dec. 9 blog post written by Scott, her philanthropic organization Yield Giving donated to Solidaire Network, which says it "nurtures relationships between social movements and members to create regenerative systems rooted in love and justice." This means in practice that the network has funded organizations including Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP), American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), the US Palestinian Community Network, and the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), according to tax filings and press releases from the Solidaire Network.
Maher on Monday told reporter Maya Sulkin that Uygur and people with similar views are stooges. Anybody who thinks they're a social justice activist which these people do and your number one issue isn't gender apartheid in the Muslim world you're a joke. You're a joke, Maher said. It's so obvious where the biggest amount of oppression is, you people who hate oppression so much.
Police in the United Kingdom have made their first arrests since announcing their intent to crack down on people making public calls to globalise the Intifada after Australia's Bondi Beach attack, speciously linking largely peaceful protests against Israel's genocidal war with a deadly targeting of a Jewish festival. London's Metropolitan Police posted on X late on Wednesday that it had made four arrests at pro-Palestinian protests held outside the Ministry of Justice in Westminster, all involving the alleged shouting or chanting of slogans involving calls for intifada.
A Section 60 was also in place in parts of Birmingham, allowing officers to stop and search without the need to have reasonable grounds. West Midlands police said three people were arrested for racially aggravated offences and one for a breach of the peace. A man, 21, was also arrested for failing to comply with an order to remove a face mask and a teenage boy, 17, for failing to comply with a dispersal order.
The Met Police told the Standard its officers responded to a group of Youth Demand activists blocking Tower Bridge causing serious disruption at around 6.30pm on Saturday. The protest group shared footage of protesters wearing keffiyehs and holding a banner reading stop arming Israel and chanting we demand reparations. In the background, green smoke from a flare covered the famous bridge and several activists can be seen waving Palestine flags.
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Do you find it curious that the protesters who have been in the streets, the people we're hearing from Hollywood and elsewhere who have intent understandably on helping the people of, the Palestinians, the people in Gaza who are under bombardment and have been for some time and who are hungry, are starving, that now that this peace plan is before Hamas, we're not seeing that same pressure on Hamas? Should they be continuing their protest but focus on Hamas?
Local workers said security guards were in position in front of the artwork, which is thought to be a reference to pro-Palestine protests. One, Matteo, said he passed by at 8.30am on Monday when the guards were trying to stop people from taking pictures. More staff then arrived with supplies to cover it up. I think it's disgusting that they would just cover it up, added Matteo, who witnessed arrests at a pro-Palestine protest in London on Saturday.
Nearly all of the 58 students placed on probation - the highest number since at least the 2017-2018 academic year - were disciplined for participating in a November 2023 pro-Palestine occupation of University Hall and an April to May 2024 pro-Palestine encampment at Harvard Yard, according to the Crimson. An additional 31 students were "formally admonished" but not placed on probation.
We demand from our politicians more than just talk. We are long past this, Remah Naji, one of the organisers of the protest in the eastern city of Brisbane, told Al Jazeera. Now, we demand actions in the same way we acted in times of genocide. We are signatories to the Genocide Convention, which means that we have an obligation to prevent and punish genocide when it occurs.
