LONDON
\nA group of Jews living in the UK held a demonstration Wednesday in London to protest the Israeli government\u2019s \u201capartheid policies.\u201d
\nSome 30 people took part in the protest held by the Jewish activist group Na\u2019amod outside the UK Foreign Office, calling for more international pressure on Israel to achieve peace in the region.
\nThey called on the British government \u201cto not open arms\u201d to the Israeli government and to support freedom and equality for all Palestinians and Israelis.
\nChanting slogans against Israeli policies which foster \u201coccupation and apartheid,\u201d protesters held signs saying \u201cNo democracy with occupation.\u201d
\nOther signs carried by protesters said \u201cdemocracy and occupation cannot coexist\u201d and \u201cNo to Netanyahu, no to occupation,\u201d referring to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s visit to the UK on Thursday. They also ripped a red carpet and chanted: \u201cNo red carpet for occupation.\u201d
\nSpeaking to Anadolu, Marco, a member of the group, said the British government should not invite someone from the Israeli government, which is committing vast human rights abuses in Palestine, as the international community says.
\n\u201cWe think there should be stronger condemnations rather than an agreement to defend it (the Israeli government) in the international arena,\u201d he said.
\nOn the new Israeli law that paves the way for restoring four illegal settlements in the north of the occupied West Bank, Marco said that more settlements is not the way forward to obtain equality and freedom for everybody in the region.
\n\u201cAnd it\u2019s going to entrench the occupation even more. So while that\u2019s an issue, the issue is also that the bigger system around it keeps being maintained of occupation and apartheid in the region,\u201d he added.
\nIn response to Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich\u2019s recent remarks that \u201cPalestinians don\u2019t exist,\u201d Marco said this is wrong and Palestinians have legitimate demands for freedom and equality.
\n\u201cI think denying their existence is not going to make them go away,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
LONDON A group of Jews living in the UK held a demonstration Wednesday in London to protest the Israeli government\u2019s \u201capartheid policies.\u201d Some 30 people took part in the protest held by the Jewish activist group Na\u2019amod outside the UK Foreign Office, calling for more international pressure on Israel to achieve peace in the region. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321817,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-321805","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n