Quarter of a million join Nakba Day rally as far-right protest also takes place in central London
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/47442994
> May 16, 2026
> >Organizers said that around quarter of a million people gathered in central London on Saturday to attend a march marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, which coincided with a separate protest organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
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> >The Metropolitan Police, which deployed over 4,000 officers to police the marches in what it described as an "unprecedented" public order operation, announced that it had made 31 arrests in relation to the protests by 4.30pm. It did not specify which protest those arrested had attended.
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> >The Nakba Day march is an annual demonstration organised by a coalition of groups, including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, commemorating the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their land and the killing of over 13,000 others by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.
> May 16, 2026
> >Organizers said that around quarter of a million people gathered in central London on Saturday to attend a march marking the 78th anniversary of the Nakba, which coincided with a separate protest organised by far-right activist Tommy Robinson.
>
> >The Metropolitan Police, which deployed over 4,000 officers to police the marches in what it described as an "unprecedented" public order operation, announced that it had made 31 arrests in relation to the protests by 4.30pm. It did not specify which protest those arrested had attended.
>
> >The Nakba Day march is an annual demonstration organised by a coalition of groups, including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, commemorating the expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians from their land and the killing of over 13,000 others by Zionist militias to make way for the creation of Israel in 1948.