About 5,000 people demonstrated themselves in the streets of Seville against the Israeli offensive in Gaza. Many people wore garments in support – a Palestinian scarf and/or a shoe over a stick or an umbrella, as a symbol of the shoe that was thrown against former US President George W. Bush during his last visit…
Protestors in several Canadian cities waved placards and Palestinian flags denouncing the ongoing Israeli offensive in Gaza. In Ottawa, more than 500 demonstrators marched on the steps of Parliament Hill, eventually walking to the Israeli and U.S. embassies. A gathering of several thousand people in Toronto followed suit. Events also took place in Montreal and…
A large pro-Palestinian protest in the shopping district in Paris turned violent. A pro-Palestinian umbrella group, including France’s Communist Party, led more than 21,000 demonstrators, according to reports, in a march Saturday afternoon protesting Israel’s military actions over the past week in the Gaza Strip. Police blocked the demonstrators from reaching the Israeli Embassy. Protesters…
British Muslims are organising a boycott of Barclays Bank after it closed the accounts of an Islamic charity that operates in some of the world’s terror hot spots. Barclays has given the Bradford and Bolton-based Ummah Welfare Trust just 30 days to move millions of pounds, but the bank has refused to explain why. The…
The Ramadhan Foundation based in the UK has called for “real action” in the middle-east following the IDF attacks on Gaza today claiming 205 Palestinian lives. Mohammed Shafiq, Director of the Foundation in a statement has said: “It is now clear that the Israeli attacks are war crimes and its time for the unmoral and…
