London police refuses protest letter on ban of Nakba march

Holocaust survivors, MPs, artists demand Met reverse decision favouring fascist march over Nakba

More than a hundred MPs, holocaust survivors, artists, authors and performers — many of them Jewish — have presented a letter to the Met Police condemning the force’s — no doubt political — decision to deny the annual Nakba Day march its usual route so that a fascist march can dominate central London. The 16 May march will commemorate the Nakba (catastrophe) of around 800,000 Palestinians being violently driven from their homes and land to creat…

London police refuses protest letter on ban of Nakba march

The Metropolitan Police in London have refused to accept a letter from pro-Palestinian supporters calling for the reversal of a decision to block their annual march marking the Nakba. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Mark Rowley had refused permission for pro-Palestinian supporters to march through London next month on 16 May. He also approved a far-right march in central London on the same day. Mark Rowley's office did not receive the pro-Pales…