Alwaght-Thousands of people marched through London on Saturday voicing their support for the Palestinian cause while condemning the Israeli regime and the Balfour Declaration that prepared grounds for the the creation of the regime.
The demonstration came as UK Prime Minister Theresa May this week celebrated the centenary of the controversial 1917 Balfour Declaration which paved the way for the creation of the illegal Israeli entity in 1948.
The protesters called the Balfour Declaration issued in 1917 during World War I a “historic crime” and expressed outrage at the suffering of Palestinians at the hands of Israel’s brutal regime.
Protestors condemned as an open insult the recent visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Britain for celebrating the 100th anniversary of the document.
Organized by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, protesters marched through the heart of London from outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square to Parliament Square in Westminster.
The Balfour Declaration, which is dated 7 November 1917, is a 67-word letter from Balfour, the foreign secretary of David Lloyd George’s British government, to Walter Rothschild, the leader of the British Jewish community, which is considered by Zionists to indicate British support for the establishment of a Jewish national home in Palestine, which was then under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
Some of the signs held at the London march included hundreds of "Free Palestine" placards and home-made signs aimed at Balfour.
Among the speakers at the pro-Palestine rally in Westminster were representatives from numerous trade unions, Friends of Al-Aqsa and other pro-Palestine organisations who supported the march.
The rally also showed a video message from Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn, who is a patron of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign.
Other notable figures who addressed the rally included film director Ken Loach and Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti,
Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti addressed the rally and said:
"The Balfour declaration founded the racist regime of apartheid and is being implemented in Al Quds (Jerusalem), in the West Bank and Gaza and that is why we must stop it.
