Thousands of anti-Israel protesters took to the streets of London on Saturday, marching from the Victoria Embankment to Hyde Park, where some pro-Palestinian activists were seen burning the Israeli flag.
Organisers
claimed that up to 180,000 people joined the demonstration, which was
organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign UK, Stop the War Coalition, Friends of Al Aqsa, and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
Activists were filmed by Breitbart London burning the flag of Israel in Hyde Park, drawing frantic rounds of applause.
Others at the demonstration were seen carrying antisemitic placards, including one which replaced the Jewish star of the Israeli flag with a Swastika and writing which said: “Is Israel Nazi?”
Since the renewal of violence in the conflict between Israel and Gaza this month, there has been a wave of flag burning in cities across Europe.
On May 13th, an Israeli flag honouring the anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between West Germany and the Jewish state in 1965 was
set ablaze by activists outside the city hall of Düsseldorf.
On the same day, the flag of Israel was also
burnt by radicals outside the city hall of the German city of Solingen, in an act dubbed “disgraceful” by the city’s mayor.
The antisemitic act was also picked up in Italy, where pro-Palestinian activists yelled, “Allahu Akbar” and set fire to Israeli flags outside Milan’s famed cathedral.
According to Britain’s
Daily Telegraph, activists at the protest in London on Saturday also
called for the boycott of Marks & Spencer due to one of the company’s co-founders being of Jewish descent.
The editor of the Jewish Chronicle, Stephen Pollard, said: “Jew-haters have an obsession with M&S. I assume that it’s in the guide to Jew-hating that you get when you join the Guild of Jew Haters: Go for M&S because it’s a Jew Store but remember to say it’s about trade with Israel.”
Jewish-heritage comedian David Baddiel also shared a picture showing a placard featuring a picture of Jesus Christ labelled “Palestinians” above the words: “Do not let them do the same thing today again.”…
