Next PSC National March for Palestine 11th October 2025 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm Central London

[malumbu]

The difficulty with all the national shame is that you are handing the world to the right wing populist parties ("The flag, love it or leave it").  You can look at many if not most of Europe for the damage their colonial conquests did to much of the world. For Britain we could equally look at partition and the impact on the Indian subcontinent, 10 million plus death and the bonkers situation with India and Pakistan now.  Spain and Portugal went much further in wiping out much of the population of South America.  i understand that Stalin was 10 million plus.  We all know about the Third Reich, even then perhaps the allies could have done more.

I am not questioning what you say, but sadly most are only concerned about the present and don't care about sins of the past.

And back to my earlier comment that some will point out other 'conflicts' attracting much less interest.

Not a reason not to march tomorrow 

 

 

Edited 6 hours ago by malumbu

[CPR Dave]

There was long term peace on 6 October 2023.

[malumbu]

No there wasn't.  Read up before making Ill informed statements.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-state_solution

Here's a start

[heartblock]

It’s good we are having this discussion. My point of view is that we are definitely witnessing an attempt at genocide in Palestine, the right wing of the Israeli government have some awful views, some of the language representing the worse of humanity. 

Jewishness should not be conflated with Israel or Zionism, I see that has been the case for some of the comments in this thread. Conflating the actions of a Zionist Israeli Government with Jewish people is actually considered antisemitism and is a very dangerous way of thinking, leading to Jewish people in the UK feeling unsafe. 
 

Support peace and march today, I have been many times and met some lovely people. 

It’s a long read, but if any of you are interested in how early Israeli settlers from Europe viewed Arab-Jews and the consequences do have a read.  https://www.vox.com/world-politics/24122304/israel-hamas-war-gaza-palestine-arab-jews-mizrahi-solidarity

Edited 3 hours ago by heartblock