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Saturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world. ...

“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority TRANSCEND MEMBERS, 20 Nov 2023 Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service The National March for Palestine, London, 11 Nov 2023. Photo: Maung Zarni 14 Nov 2023 – Saturday’s [11 Nov] march which drew 300.000 Britons from beyond London – thousands took buses or trains from across the UK – is clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world. The National March in London, UK on 11 November against the genocide in Gaza by Israel, which is officially & exclusively “the Jewish state”, drew the largest number of Britons – from all walks of life and all faith, race, and ancestral backgrounds. The National March for Palestine, London, 11 Nov. 2023. Photo: Maung Zarni Children in buggies, people in wheelchairs, toddlers on dads’ shoulders, youth and retirees. Academics and blue-collar workers. Trade unionists and self-employed professionals. #Israel is a #terrorist state. #Genocide is not self-defence. From the river to the sea, #Palestine will be free! pic.twitter.com/Sgg7ZvX7JQ — FORSEA (@officialFORSEA) November 11, 2023 The occasion that brought hundreds of thousands of us on to the streets of London is grim and horrid – Israeli slaughtering deliberately thousands of civilians in virtually every neighbourhood and physical structure in Gaza City including over 4,300 children, the new-born and the unnamed while telling the world that the Palestinian liberation movement, The Hamas, is responsible for Palestinian deaths. For they are using civilians as human shields. A scene from Britain’s National Marh for Palestine, London, 11 Nov. 2023 (Photo: Maung Zarni) Well, Hamas is well-fortified in miles and miles of tunnels 70 meters below the ground. And yet Israeli military has been bombing from land and air anything that stands on the ground, with its “moderate” President Isaac Herzog, having made the chilling claim that there is “no one innocent” in Gaza (hence every human in Gaza is a legitimate military target). Beyond organized death and destruction, genocides typically involve uses of euphemisms and Orwellian DoubleSpeak. Israel’s unconditional backers – from Biden to UK’s All-Party politicians amplify Israel’s spin that the Jewish State has “the right to defend”. The wholesale intentional physical destruction of Gaza thus becomes an act of self-defence. As if the Occupier has the right to self-defence. The Americans in Vietnam or Iraq or Afghanistan, the genocidal colonial British and occupying Fascist Japanese in Burma in the 19th and 20th centuries, the British in Kenya in the 1950’s, and the French in Algeria and the “French Indochina” – Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia –all had the colonizer’s juridical and moral justifications for attempting, albeit with no eventual success, to “defend themselves” against the wretched of the earth who rose and revolted, again. Watch the late Martin Luther King Jr.’s Beyond Vietnam which connected all the dots of White Supremacist racism, the US military-industrial complex, and imperialist violence around the world. Also see “Beyond Vietnam” | The Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute (stanford.edu) Whatever these “pro-genocide narratives” – how else should one state it? – by Western media, and the political class, the world’s moral opinion is categorically against Israel’s Nazi-like racist propaganda. Based on the ample evidence of death and destruction wrought by 24/7 bombardment by Israel, the verdict is in already: “Israel is a terrorist state” who occupies someone else’s land. A popular protest chant goes: “One, Two, Three, Four, The Occupation No More”, Five, Six, Seven, Eight, “Israel is a terrorist state.” A sample list of the names of the Palestinian children in Gaza hand-copied by the author’s daughter from Al Jazeera English, November 2023. The enveloping “moral clarity”, to borrow Israel’s initial spin in response to the October 7 incident involving the Palestinian resistance groups, around the world is that Israel is the really guilty party. Yesterday’s march – which drew Britons from beyond London – thousands took buses or trains from Kent, Manchester, Birmingham, Oxford, Cambridge, and so forth, is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world. You don’t need to be a Muslim or need to have friends and families in Gaza to feel the pain of Palestinians. In her video address to the Free Rohingya Coalition gathering at Barnard/Columbia U in 2018, Angela Davis mentioned Israel (and Aung San Suu Kyi) as a sad and criminal phenomenon wherein “formerly persecuted morphing into the persecutors themselves.” [Watch Angela Davis’s address below.] The most shocking thing in all this sordid affair is this: today’s Israeli and Jewish Zionists — there are also fundamentalist Christian Zionists who treat the Bible as the literal h...