“BRITISH complicity in the dispossession and mass murder of Palestinians is not only a story of the past—it is still the reality today” said Ryvka Barnard, the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Deputy Director, on Nakba Day as hundreds of thousands of protesters marched through central London to highlight the ongoing impact of the 1948 partition of Palestine, the first Arab-Israeli war and the expulsion of nearly a million Palestinian Arabs from their homes in what is now Israel. The Stand Up to Racism movement joined the demonstration, combining it with an anti-fascist protest against a nearby “Unite the Kingdom” rally organised by a racist and supporter of the State of Israel who calls himself “Tommy Robinson”.

Some 250,000 people joined the Palestine march that takes place every month in London while the Robinson rally was said to have drawn around 40,000 to its rally in Trafalgar Square.