Long Live Palestine - Manchester's Gaza Flotilla Protest

A photographic walkthrough of the 31st May 2010 Manchester protest (against Israel's attack on the Gaza Freedom Flotilla) as it progressed, from its starting point at the BBC, to central Manchester and then back to the BBC. With an excerpt from Lowkey's speech at the London protest.

Music: Lowkey - Long Live Palestine (Part 1). He's one of the very best 'political' hip-hop artists. He consistently addresses the key issues, and many could learn a lot from carefully listening to his songs - buy on iTunes or go to http://www.lowkeyuk.net for info and videos.

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[Caspers187]

Idiots i was late for work coz of dem!!!

[illumin1138]

@Caspers187 True, quite a lot of people were delayed a while, but while you were delayed, you could probably see a level of public outcry. And later on the TV, worldwide; from Istanbul to the USA, from Palestine to even many in Israel. To know why you were delayed, that is the key.

[fedevlc]

Join the Global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions movement.

Isolate Israel economically, culturally and politically.

Bring Israel to its knees.

Shame Israel!!

FREE PALESTINE

Greetings from Argentina

[Liam2621]

@NoobInstructor Why have I got no emotion? Anger is an emotion too and I expressed that on my post. Just don't see what palestine has to do with Manchester.

[NoobInstructor]

@Liam2621 if any one is to F off then it is u and ur kind..ppl like u should be kept in a cage cus what u said is a comment of an animal who has no feeling or emotion..... if these ppl have any choice they will not be in ur " country". u r senseless, get a life

[NoobInstructor]

@Liam2621 if any one is to F off then it is u and ur kind..ppl like u should be kept in a cage cus wy u said is a comment of an animal who has no feeling or emotion.... u r senseless, get a life

[Liam2621]

I wish these people would fuck off out of manchester. Most english people dont care about palestine and rightly so, its nothing to do with us, if it means that much to them go over to plaestine and protest there, we don't want you here.

[kareemlibya]

@Caspers187 shut up you prick! what about the little kidsthat die in the war!!

[theprince08853]

@thisismedgr Mate, I'm not cherry picking at all. Any picking I'll do yields more support for Palestine. Israel has invaded Lebanon and Palestine, this is a joke do you really believe they are just sitting back? They demolish houses, have created thousands of refugees and have ridiculously advanced and accurate weapons yet they manage to kill thousands of unarmed civilians. Give me a fact otherwise don't reply because I'm not listening. Peace.

[thisismedgr]

@theprince08853 Try turning on your brain. You can cherry pick all you want, at the end of the day it isn't Israel trying destroy the neighboring states; they just want to live. Do I agree with everything Israel does? No. But I agree with Israel a whole lot more than those despotic terrorist twits that live around them. Sanity is somewhere in between those two extremes of the middle east, I just don't sympathize with Nazi loving bomb-chuckers. Have fun being stupid and impressionable.

[thisismedgr]

@theprince08853 "nothing to do with religion"... Riiight! World authority - the League of Nations and the UN - put the Jews where they are; they didn't just show up and take over the place, so define "Illegal". Neighboring states have been trying to destroy Israel since the day after they declared independence, or did you miss that part? As for crying about women and children, do you do it when Muslim leaders prey on their own people, or just when the Israelis fight back? Just wondering.

[2deltaactual]

@theprince08853 I agree.The World Health Organization,Amnesty International,The UN have found that Israel committed a number of war crimes,including using little children as human shields.Terrorism is terrorism whether it is committed by the Palestinians or the Israelis.Israel is feeling the heat as we have just seen by the watering down of the UN sanctions against Iran.That has sent a clear message to Israel that the world no longer will standby her while she continues an Apartheid regime.

[theprince08853]

@thisismedgr ...put together. Defend that. I've read Ben Gurions transcripts. Nelson Mandela described it as apartheid. Israel is a terrorist state it's a FACT not an opinion. So stop getting so emotional, and take a look at the facts. I'm sorry but any rational, intelligent person knows that Israel was born out of violence. The only person that can convince you is yourself so please turn off the TV and read Ilan Pappes "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine" Mr Pappe is an Israeli historian.