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PALESTINE supporters in Manchester rallied on Saturday as part of international Palestinian Prisoners’ Day.
The demo highlighted the fact that 6,000 Palestinian political prisoners — including 200 children and 23 women — are jailed in Israel.
A spotlight was also shone on the role of security company G4S in the oppression of Palestinians, providing security systems to at least two Israeli jails.
“Towards the end of the demo about half a dozen zionists ‘joined’ us,” said Manchester Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s Clayton Doyle.
“They heckled the speakers and tried to incite some of the pro-Palestinian demonstrators by calling them racists or insulting the prophet Mohammed or, in my case, saying that I was wearing a racist T-shirt — my T-shirt has a map of historic Palestine in gold next to the words ‘From the river to the sea Palestine will be free’.”
Since 1974, Palestinians and their supporters have taken action, marched, demonstrated and come together to demand freedom for all Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli prisons.
