Another Monster Demonstration Against Racism and Police Violence
This was
the second demonstration in Brighton for Black Lives Matter. On June 13th
there was the biggest demonstration I have attended in Brighton in over 40
years living here, over 20,000.
This wasn’t
as big. I estimate between 8,000 and
10,000 but it is still one of the largest demonstrations to have been in
Brighton.
Brighton
and Hove PSC had a special banner for the occasion welcoming BLM. We had , as
would be expected, a wonderful reception from the mainly young people on march
with people showing us the clenched fist.
What is
amazing is that so many young people instantly recognised the connections
between Black Lives Matter and Palestine solidarity. [see For
6 years Black Lives Matter Were Attacked as ‘anti-Semites’ by the Zionists –
Today they suffer from amnesia]
Five days
after George Floyd was murdered, Iyad Hallak, a 32 year old autistic Palestinian
man was gunned down by Israel’s notorious Border Police because they ‘mistook’
the phone in his hand for a gun. A ‘mistake’
they have never made in the case of an Israeli Jew. Iyad was gunned down
despite his carer screaming at them that he was with her and was disabled.
Not one of
the Israeli police has been arrested.
There is apparently an ‘investigation’ going on but in Israel all investigations
end with at best a slap on the wrist. [see When George Floyd
was Murdered There Was Outrage – When Iyad Hallak, an Autistic Palestinian was
Murdered, Noone Said Anything]
That is
what is so wonderful about BLM that it consists of, mainly White young people
expressing their solidarity with Black people in this country and the United
States.
Below are some photos.
Tony
Greenstein
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