Police have arrested a woman for waving a sign that criticises Israel prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a huge march in support of Palestine.

Around 200,000 people were said to be marching in London, in support of Gaza and Palestine, today (January 13) – their sentiment boosted by media bias over the genocide hearings against Israel at the International Court of Justice, and by their own government’s attack on Yemen’s Houthi people, who have been blockading the Red Sea.

Opposition to the UK government – and the Labour Party – has been running high since Rishi Sunak decided to use the Royal Prerogative to order four RAF planes to join a US-led bombing mission against 60 Houthi targets within Yemen, early on Friday morning (January 12).

It seems Sunak had been advised by former prime minister – now Foreign Secretary – David Cameron, not to re-convene Parliament for a vote in case it went against him.

And many have been outraged that the BBC chose not to live-stream South Africa’s evidence of Israel’s genocide in Gaza at the International Court of Justice, but did live-stream Israel’s defence:

One person who was able to witness all the ICJ proceedings was Jeremy Corbyn, who said he would also be on the streets of London at today’s demonstration:

The march is taking place as I type this:

It includes a 3,000-strong “Jewish bloc” – notable not only because they clearly disagree with the claim of the Israeli government and its propagandists to be representing all Jews in this, but also because pro-Israel organisations like the Jewish Chronicle have been pushing claims that Jews are afraid to go out in central London because of anti-Semitism among the marchers:

This seems clearly untrue:

The march has not gone off unchallenged, though. Police decided to get political by arresting a woman who was carrying a banner critical of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu (this is, of course, beyond the remit of police officers whose job is to uphold UK law, not suppress political opinions).

The sign read, “Netanyahu would make Hitler proud” – a sentiment with which many people are starting to agree:

How sad that the police had to find an excuse to criminalise a peaceful protester and stir up animosity with blatant politically-motivated interference like that. Who are the officers concerned and what disciplinary procedures will they face?

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