Signs of solidarity as London marks three years of genocide in Palestine

Tens of thousands of people gathered in central London on Saturday in solidarity with Palestine to mark three years since the start of Israel’s ongoing genocide. The demonstration was the 37^th national march in London since October 7, 2023. Organisers estimated that more than 250,000 people took part.

The protesters, many holding signs condemning Zionism and calling for an end to Israeli genocide and apartheid, marched from Victoria Embankment to Downing Street. The demonstration came just over a month after Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced sanctions on West Bank settlements and declared Israel’s occupation illegal, with protesters demanding further sanctions on Israel and a full arms embargo.

Despite the ceasefire, Israeli attacks on Palestinians in Gaza have continued. According to aid organisation Islamic Relief, Israeli attacks have killed or injured a Palestinian every 90 minutes on average since the ceasefire was announced in October last year. Last month, Gaza’s Health Ministry reported that the Palestinian death toll had risen to 74,016, with a further 175,068 people wounded.

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Meanwhile, a UN report published in July warned that settler violence in the West Bank had reached an all-time high. The number of settler attacks has risen every year since 2023, reaching 1,835 in 2025, according to UN figures.

Police made a total of 20 arrests at the protest, including people holding placards expressing support for the proscribed group Palestine Action. Addressing the arrests in his speech, Stop the War Coalition’s Chris Nineham referenced Miliband’s sanction, asking: ​“One simple question for the government: if we were right and they were wrong, why are we still being persecuted?”

Other speakers at the march included Jeremy Corbyn MP, Zarah Sultana MP, Unison’s general secretary Andrea Egan, and actor Khalid Abdalla. 

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The protests came almost a week after the Green Party passed its ​‘Zionism is Racism’ motion. Support for the motion was evident at the demonstration, with a number of placards reading ​‘Zionism is Racism’. Abdalla directly referenced the Greens’ motion in his speech. ​“The culture around us is enabling the genocide and apartheid to continue, treating it as taboo to name the root cause and ideology that is Zionism,” he said. ​“Not Netanyahu, but the racism of an idea that, at its simplest, is about creating a state for Jewish people only on a land that requires the dispossession and murder of Palestinians for generations.”

Daisy Schofield is a freelance journalist. Follow her on Instagram.

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