Today’s March for Palestine in London was just one of 325 similar protests around the world this weekend, starting in New Zealand.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialLiberal Democrat Friends of Palestine
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social
The Liberal Democrat Friends of Palestine support the Palestinian people in their demands for justice and human rights for all under international law.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialStrong turnout of @libdems.org.uk on today’s national march for Palestine in London. Altogether, an estimated 250,000+ people out in the street, acting in the best traditions of peaceful protest.
#peacemarch
#WeAreAllPalestinians
#SanctionIsrael
#PalestineSolidarity
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social“In awarding this year’s Nobel peace prize, the Norwegian Nobel committee wants to remind the world that the rule of law – national and international – underpins the system we have set up to ensure peace and resolve conflicts non-violently” 👏
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialWelcome statement from the Foreign Secretary. The British Consulate General remains open in Jerusalem, & sanction measures confirmed.
“The UK Mission, Jerusalem is independent, operational, & will continue to deliver vital services and our work with the Palestinian people.”
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social3 years into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, Palestinians continue to be killed, displaced & forced to survive in tents or in the ruins.
Drop Site contributor Abdel Qader Sabbah spoke with Gazans facing constant Israeli attacks and worsening living conditions as winter approaches.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social“There was colour here once: green leaves, orange fruit, red earth.”
Moving comment by Sky journalist @celinealkhaldi.bsky.social on X.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social“3 years later we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation & apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, & our govt continues its complicity with every arms shipment. To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety & dignity.”
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialWhy Britain is being forced to revisit the Balfour Declaration.
Thoughtful @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social article in the aftermath of the Greens’ motion.
@standing-together.bsky.socialReposted by @ldfpalestine.bsky.socialAs the son of a respected peace activist who would take him to visit her friends in Gaza, it didn’t change his own belief in the need for peace. What it changed was his need to take action to actually fight for and build a completely different reality.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialGary Younge explains on this YouTube video why we’re marching for Palestine on Saturday.
👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBEx...
Join us in London - and many other cities around the world - on this international day of action.
@theguardian.comReposted by @ldfpalestine.bsky.socialIsraeli settlers beat press photographer as soldiers watch in West Bank
theguardian.comIsraeli settlers beat press photographer as soldiers watch in West BankJaafar Ashtiyeh was covering violence against olive farmers when settlers set upon him with the butts of their guns
Armed Israeli settlers beat a photographer in the presence of Israeli soldiers, hospitalising him, as he covered worsening settler violence against olive farmers in the occupied West Bank.
Jaafar Ashtiyeh, a 58-year-old veteran photographer for Agence France-Presse in Palestine, was assaulted by a group of settlers, who beat him with the butts of their guns, despite him being marked as press. He was assaulted in view of about a dozen armed Israeli soldiers. Continue reading...
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social“For all its linguistic shifts, Labour continues to deny ‘genocide’... It’s a denial that protects the UK’s relationship with Israel & the US, as well as Labour ministers responsible for its previous pro-genocide policies.”
Martin Shaw on the changing politics of Gaza genocide denial.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialA powerful address from Arab Knesset Member Aida Touma-Sliman at the @conference.libdems.org.uk Annual Reception on Palestine last month, co-hosted by LDFP, @icjpalestine.com and @islamicreliefuk.bsky.social.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialAttacks on the olive harvest are part of Israel’s broader policies of ethnic cleansing and annexation in the West Bank.
How long can we let this continue @andyburnham.bsky.social
#EdMiliband ?
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialHistorian William Dalrymple found this mosaic of Gaza in St Stephen’s Church, Um ar-Rasas, Jordan, dated 756CE: 120 yrs AFTER the Islamic conquests. “The population of Palestine was majority Christian until the Crusades.They took 200 yrs to use Arabic, 600 to convert to Islam.”
x.com/dalrymplewil...
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialFuneral prayers were held at Gaza City’s St Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church for a Palestinian mother and daughter who were among five killed in an overnight Israeli airstrike on an apartment.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialArrests of Palestinian farmers, bulldozing of their trees, theft of their olive harvest - on their own private land. The criminal behaviour goes on and on. Our politicians must call for an end to it.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialGaza death toll rises after eight killed in Israeli attacks on Wednesday.
There IS no ceasefire in the ongoing #GazaGenocide. Israel must be held to account.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.socialA mass funeral was held for 100 Palestinians whose bodies were recovered from the rubble of a Gaza residential building hit in an Israeli strike in October 2023. An estimated 8,000 people remain under the rubble.
@ldfpalestine.bsky.social61m tonnes of rubble: Gaza aid workers face delicate task of clearing ruins concealing up to 10,000 bodies. Removal of war debris, in which lives, memories and unexploded Israeli bombs lie buried, is one of largest clearance operations in modern history