Protesters converge on square after sit-ins at Oxford Circus and Charing Cross station and chants outside BBC
“From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” as well as “Ceasefire now!” – rang out, as some protesters climbed on top of bus stops and let off green and red flares.
Hundreds of protesters also gathered outside the BBC’s London headquarters on Saturday morning, accusing the broadcaster of bias in its coverage of Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza. “BBC, you can’t hide, we charge you with genocide,” the crowds chanted. One protester was seen carrying a banner which read “Let’s keep the world clean” with a picture of an Israeli flag being thrown into a bin. A similar banner displayed at a protest in Warsaw was condemned by the Israeli ambassador to Poland as “blatant antisemitism”.
“I feel sometimes you have to go out of your comfort zone and politicians these days are always frightened to do it because they’ll upset certain members of the voting public,” she said. “When we do the marches we try to gain the sympathy of the public,” he said. “If this is going to work the other way round, I’ve been saying to my family and friends, we should be considering a silent march to sympathise with the UK population. A silent march would be appropriate, I believe.”
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