Jewish Bloc expression of appreciation

The Jewish Bloc has issued this statement welcoming the decision by the organisers of the Palestine demonstrations to change the date of the October march.

Jewish Bloc expression of appreciation

Jewish Bloc statement

The decision of the organisers of the National March for Palestine to move the date of the next march to October 5th is very much appreciated by the Jewish Bloc. We have taken part in huge numbers on all the previous mass marches to demonstrate opposition to the year-long brutal Israeli assault on the people of Gaza, and also the West Bank. The date originally announced, October 12th, is also this year the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur, the most important day in the Jewish religious calendar. The change of date avoids Yom Kippur– and encourages the diverse participation that has been such a striking feature of the demonstrations. A good decision from the organising coalition.

Statement by the Coalition organising the marches

In October, we will mark a year since the start of Israel’s genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip. We need the largest possible mobilisation to demonstrate our solidarity, demand an end to the genocide, and to call on the British government to stop arming Israel. To enable this, we previously announced a national demonstration in London on 12 October. However, following representations, including from members of the Jewish Bloc – representing the thousands of Jewish people who have taken part in every single march over the past year, we have decided to change the date to 5 October to avoid a clash with Yom Kippur.

We are immensely proud of the breadth and diversity of our movement against genocide and for Palestinian rights. We are young and old, from a wide array of racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds, women, LGBTQ+, and none of the above. We reject all attempts to smear our peaceful protests. We march because we stand against the racist logic that some lives are less precious than others and in defiance of the racist ideology that maintains that between the river and the sea, one people – Jewish Israelis – have rights, while another people – Palestinians – have no rights at all. We stand for the universal principles of freedom and justice.

Join us on 5 October when we march in London to call for an end to the genocide in Gaza and to 76 years of colonisation, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid.

Palestine Solidarity Campaign
Palestinian Forum in Britain
Friends of Al-Aqsa
Stop the War Coalition
Muslim Association of Britain
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament

Posted: 11 September 2024
Topics: date of palestine march, jewish bloc statement, october palestine march