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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/21598108
cross-posted from: https://hcommons.social/users/adachika192/statuses/113339925768240423
Pro-Palestine protesters shut down London’s Tower Bridge
(Jerusalem Post, 2024-10-20)https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/article-825262#825262
———“Pro-Palestine protesters shut down Tower Bridge in #London on Saturday, shortly after thousands attended a mass protest in Trafalgar Square and Whitehall.”
“… the Met Police stated that the groups had been dispersed and several arrests had been made.”
“A group named Youth Demand claimed to have been part of a coalition that organized the event and shut down the bridge.
“Youth Demand said it demanded that the UK government stop arming Israel…”“The other groups involved were the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Prayers4Gaza, Palestine Pulse, Thanet 4 Palestine, and Ealing Friends of Palestine.”
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This is anecdotal, but anti-israel/pro-palestine actions near where I live have caused peril for people in general and jews in particular. They’re often arranged near synagogues and other places relevant to jewish diaspora communities.
I can go into more detail if you want, but hence the relevance for jews living outside of Israel.
If my commute to work for instance were to intersect with such a demonstration I’d do my best to plan another route, for my own safety.
I know that Jewish diaspora institutions have been extremely unfairly targetted recently.
TW: attack
For example, in Montreal and in Toronto there have been disgusting shooting attacks against Jewish schools.
Thankfully, in the ones I know of, nobody had been hurt, even if it has had a chilling and terrorizing effect. But that’s entirely different.
A protest in broad daylight in a central space, I don’t understand what kind of “peril” any random Jewish person might be faced with. I mean you will hear rhetoric against Israel and if you show up with an Israeli flag to counter protest you will get yelled at. But that’s not any kind of special peril for the diaspora in general. Show up with a Turkish flag at a Kurdish rally and the same applies. That’s not a peril for diaspora Turks.