Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
18 June
WHITE SUPREMACIST KILLER STALKED LONDON PALESTINE MARCH
On this day in 2017, Darren Osborne decided not to drive his van into thousands of people on the Al Quds Day London demonstration in solidarity with Palestine. He later testified that he called off that plan due to the large numbers of police present. In the early hours of the following morning, Osborne drove a van into a crowd of Muslim worshippers in Finsbury Park, north London, killing Makram Ali and injuring 10 others. Osborne had been reading messages from Tommy Robinson in the days beforehand.
القاتل الأبيض المتعصب راقب مسيرة فلسطين في لندن
18يونيو
Darren Osborne has been jailed for life for trying to “kill, maim, injure and terrify” as many people as possible in the Finsbury Park terror attack.
Justice Cheema-Grubb did not give Osborne a rare full-life term for the “suicide mission” because he did not achieve his original aim to massacre demonstrators at a pro-Palestinian march in north London, she said. “This was a terror attack,” the judge added, saying police security around the Al-Quds Day rally had “saved many lives. You were rapidly radicalised ...by material put on the internet by those determined to spread hatred of Muslims.”
Sentencing Osborne to two concurrent life sentences with a minimum term of 43 years, minus the 224 days already served in custody, she said his lengthy criminal record betrayed a “belligerent and violent character”.
Zionists and White supremacists
When Trump came into office, we saw a very open alliance between Zionists and white supremacists, one of whose leaders, Richard Spencer described himself as a “white Zionist”. Many pro-Israel groups were careful about criticizing the antisemitism of administration officials or even whitewashing it because the White House supports Israel. This alliance becomes all the clearer when we look at the shared histories and values of the United States and Israel.
Full length discussion on Electronic Intifada on Ukraine, Israel, Palestine and the role of the extreme right.
https://youtu.be/sMd0p24995s