London today

“Have we lost our humanity to the point where we don’t see every child as deserving of life?”

In London today. Friends and families walking arm in arm for mercy, in strength & tenderness. singing, weeping, shouting till our voices were ragged – stop killing each other, stop killing kids, stop bombing civilians, stop the hate and dehumanisation. The grief is palpable. The UK foreign secretary says that calls for ceasefire in the abstract aren’t going to solve the situation. Of course not. But refusal of atrocities is 100% a civic responsibility. And it’s the foreign secretary’s job to do the work for justice and to find another way. Resisting ongoing crimes against humanity is not supporting the massacre of the Israeli people. My god, it’s out of absolute horror for monstrous brutal acts. How could we not protest? We march and mourn, not because there’s a simple solution, but to bring our bodies together for justice, with all who grieve, and against a politics that normalises – supports, even – war crimes and extreme cruelty.

Banners and flags from the Jewish diaspora, from Lebanon, Armenia, Congo, Sudan… the struggle connects across communities suffering colonial violence and oppression. That’s something to really tend warmly in this media landscape that pretends you can only care about one group at a time. We’re entangled through and through.

Listen live now – Radio with Palestine – sounds from protests in Berlin, Glasgow, London streaming at: radioalhara.net