Hundreds of thousands marched in cities across the continent to protest Israel's war on Gaza over the weekend in the biggest pan-European demonstrations the continent has seen since those against the launch of the Iraq war in 2003. The largest protests took place in Spain, with some 250,000 rallying in Madrid on Saturday (10 January) and another 100,000 in Barcelona, according to organisers. Police declined to give their own estimate for Madrid, but reckoned 30,000 marched through the Catalonian capital. A girl in Brussels protests Israel's war on Gaza Massive protests also took place in London, Brussels and throughout France. Sizeable demonstrations also took place in German and Italian cities, as well as Athens, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Bregenz, Oslo and Stockholm. Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, the first European leader to take part in such rallies, addressed a protest in Ourense. "It is my duty to call on Israel to implement an immediate cease-fire," he told the protest, which as with others throughout the country, was organised by NGOs, trade unions and the prime minister's own Socialist Workers' Party, the PSOE.
Hundreds of thousands marched in cities across the continent to protest Israel's war on Gaza over the weekend in the biggest pan-European demonstrations the continent has seen since those against the launch of the Iraq war in 2003.
The largest protests took place in Spain, with some 250,000 rallying in Madrid on Saturday (10 January) and another 100,000 in Barcelona, according to organisers. Police declined to give their own estimate for Madrid, but reckoned 30,000 marched through the Catalonian capital.
A girl in Brussels protests Israel's war on Gaza
Massive protests also took place in London, Brussels and throughout France. Sizeable demonstrations also took place in German and Italian cities, as well as Athens, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Bregenz, Oslo and Stockholm.
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero, the first European leader to take part in such rallies, addressed a protest in Ourense.
"It is my duty to call on Israel to implement an immediate cease-fire," he told the protest, which as with others throughout the country, was organised by NGOs, trade unions and the prime minister's own Socialist Workers' Party, the PSOE.
But two punks sending a Molotov cocktail against a synagogue (a nasty act, but not a very meaningful nor momentous one) get flu front page headlines and outraged statements by all authorities of the State.
Sigh... At least France is not accused of being antisemitic (yet?) In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
