Thousands in Edinburgh protest UK government complicity in the Zionist entity's genocide
Thousands turned out in the rain for the pro-Palestine demonstration today in Edinburgh. It was organised by the Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee (GGEC) in response to a Declassified UK report on the RAF’s 518 spy flights over Gaza since October 2023.
The protest followed the Starmer regime’s banning of the peaceful protest group Palestine Action on July 2nd. Many attendees held defiant signs: “Genocide in Palestine - Time to Take Action.”
Starting from St Giles, the crowd marched to the UK Government monstrosity, Queen Elizabeth House, to hear several speakers including Tommy Sheppard and Lesley Riddoch.
Then it was on to John Swinney’s official residence at Bute House, where someone positioned the Palestinian flag between the Saltire and Butcher’s Apron.
Speakers included Alba leader Kenny McAskill and a Dundee firefighter whose Fire Brigade Union (FBU) members sourced and refitted a fire engine with medical and firefighting equipment for Palestinian firefighters in the West Bank town of Nablus in July 2024.
The engine, which had all necessary paperwork, was driven from Dundee to Southhampton and shipped to the port of Ashdod where it arrived on 21 July 2024 and was immediately seized by the Zionist entity. Four months later, the engine was still impounded, so the FBU sent a letter to the entity’s UK ambassador demanding its release.
The engine remains impounded as the Zionist entity’s violence against and murder of Palestinians in the West Bank intensifies and its genocide of Gazans grinds on. And what says the UK government? Nothing.
Speakers also mentioned the three women arrested last Tuesday under the Terrorism Act 2000. They drove a van into a perimeter fence around the Edinburgh Leonardo weapons facility. It receives public funding from the Scottish Administration and manufactures laser targeting components for F-35 jets used by the Zionist entity to bomb Gaza.
The women are due to appear at Edinburgh Sheriff’s court at 9.30 am this Monday, July 21, and people were encouraged to come support them. (For more information on Scotland’s role in supplying weapons to the Zionist entity and to volunteer to stop this deadly trade, please go to: https://targetleonardo.com.)
Today, I couldn’t help but wonder how different things could be if Scotland were an independent nation, able to project its people’s voices and values onto the world stage, rather than a vassal of a disunited and venal state that is actively supporting the annihilation of an entire people.
