Police forced march for hunger strikers to divert: images
Police forced last night’s weekly protest march to the BBC’s London HQ in solidarity with the hunger strikers to divert to avoid supposed hurt to Jewish groups meeting for Hanukkah. Jewish people have been front and centre of every protest. The march was excluded from a large area around the BBC:
To rub salt into the wounds of the many Jewish people who protest against genocide, the marchers were also not allowed in a large area around Trafalgar Square. The Starmer regime continues to prioritise the comfort of Zionists above the rights of British people. Over the lives of Palestinians and the humanitarian political prisoners on hunger strike for them:
Photographer Chiara Contrino attended the march and kindly provided the following shots from the well-attended demo:
Gerry Tasker provided these compelling shots from Piccadilly Circus after the Parliament Square demo:
🚨🚨🚨 As soon as Qesser left the cops turned as her supporters began leaving. Developing situation #ukpolitics #news #palestine #protest #hungerstrike @Prisoners4Pal @zarahsultana @ZackPolanski @GreenJennyJones pic.twitter.com/DeSS5GOcYq
— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) December 17, 2025
On Thursday, police attacked a peaceful demo outside Bronzefield prison after it had successfully forced the prison to send desperately ill hunger-striker Qesser Zuhrah to hospital by ambulance after it had turned away doctors attempting to assess and treat her. Read more here.
Section 14 incoming at HMP Bronzefield. Support needed urgently #ukpolitics #news #palestine #protest #hungerstrike pic.twitter.com/jphe5uzitg
— Canary (@TheCanaryUK) December 17, 2025
Dr Ayo Moiett arrested for revolutionary act of demanding another human being (on hunger strike over Gaza) receive medical attention.
Detained standing outside a prison with a stethoscope, whilst Black.
His offence? Witnessing state cruelty and saying no pic.twitter.com/t65HtlfZPd
— Claudia Webbe (@ClaudiaWebbe) December 17, 2025
Solidarity with the hunger strikers.
Featured image via Chiara Contrino
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Effectively, one so-called community – pro-Israel, pro-genocide, openly racist against Arab people – has de facto control over public spaces, over who might enter them and over what the public can even speak in those spaces. Many Jews are negatively affected by this anti-democratic development, which surely makes it deeply anti-semitic too. We must resist this.
I am staggered by what Starmer’s government is doing with free speech and the freedoms I have grown up with. The current government must be the most repressive for a very long time. The last notable time was also a Labour government with the banning of offshore radio back in the 60s. What are Labour governments so frightened of? I can’t believe it’s a small number of people showing solidarity with a persecuted group or some people listening to pop music. There must be more to it.
Labour has always liked genocide. “On the 50th anniversary of the end of the Biafran war, the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in the late 1960s, declassified British files show that Harold Wilson’s government secretly armed and backed Nigeria’s aggression against the secessionist region. The then Labour government secretly provided large quantities of arms to the Nigerian federal government which, by early 1970, had crushed an attempt by the country’s eastern region of Biafra to gain independence, which it had declared in May 1967.
During the three years of war, up to three million people died, as Nigeria enforced a blockade on Biafra, causing widespread starvation amid considerable international opposition to the conflict.
British policy was mainly shaped by its oil interests, declassified government documents from the time show. “Our direct interests are trade and investment, including an important stake by Shell/BP in the eastern region,” the Foreign Office noted a few days before the outbreak of the war in 1967. Investments by Shell/BP—then a joint company in Nigeria which was partly owned by the British government—amounted to around £200-million at the time. The company was the largest producer of oil in Nigeria, most of which was in Biafra.”
(‘How Britain’s Labour government facilitated the massacre of Biafrans in Nigeria – to protect its oil interests’, Daily Maverick 29/4/20)