Pro-Palestine protest passes through Exhibition Road
Crowds gathered around Imperial’s South Kensington campus on Saturday 16th May as the annual pro-Palestine “Nakba Day” march set off from Exhibition Road before moving towards Knightsbridge.
Protesters, together with activists from Stand Up To Racism, brandished signs with slogans such as “Stop Trump, Stop Farage” and “Hands off Lebanon” as they walked past the College’s main entrance.
The march, which commemorates the displacement of Palestinians in 1948, was organised on the same day as the anti-immigration “Unite the Kingdom” rally, which started in Kingsway. Tens of thousands attended each protest.
More than 4,000 police officers, as well as drones, police horses, and dogs, were deployed to maintain a buffer zone between the marches, and helicopters could be seen flying above South Kensington. 43 demonstrators were arrested in total.
