WPNews.Org – LONDON EMBANKMEN, Saturday, 17th May 2025
West Papua, Kurdish, and Kanak joined half a million people rally for Palestine on the streets of London for Palestine yesterday. The Genocide Convention and the ongoing Nakba in Palestine because since 1948, a year of cruel irony Genocide Convention was adopted by WWII, while the UK/USA and their Europe enabled Zionists’ ethnic cleansing of 750K Palestinians.
📰 An estimated 600,000 people marched through central London to Downing Street on Saturday to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba.
The demonstration began at Embankment before passing Big Ben, crossing the river to Waterloo and ending up outside Downing Street.
It was organised by the Palestine Solidarity Compaign, Friends of Al-Aqsa, the Muslim Association of Britain, Stop the War, the Palestinian Forum in Britain, and other pro-Palestine groups.
Protesters came from around the country, including from Wales and northern England.
Stop the War said the demonstration was attended by an estimated 600,000 people, making it the biggest since November 2023.
An estimated 600,000 people demonstrated in London on Saturday, 17 May 2025, calling on the UK government to end its complicity in what protesters described as the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The march marked the 77th anniversary of the Nakba and was the largest Palestine solidarity protest in the UK since November 2023.
The Nakba (“catastrophe” in Arabic) refers to the mass displacement of Palestinians that began in 1948, with the creation of the state of Israel. Over 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes, and more than 400 villages were destroyed. This marked the beginning of a protracted refugee crisis and a central trauma in Palestinian national identity.
The Nakba is not seen as a one-time event but as an ongoing process of dispossession, occupation, and resistance—central to the Palestinian experience and identity for 77 years.
77 years since hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were uprooted from their homes, their land, and their lives.
The Nakba is not just history. It’s a lived reality — echoed in every refugee camp, every demolished home, and every voice still calling for justice.
We remember. We mourn. We resist.