{"id":313418,"date":"2017-06-18T21:13:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-18T20:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-of-uk-protesters-mark-quds-day-in-london\/"},"modified":"2017-06-18T21:13:42","modified_gmt":"2017-06-18T20:13:42","slug":"thousands-of-uk-protesters-mark-quds-day-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/thousands-of-uk-protesters-mark-quds-day-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of UK protesters mark Quds Day in London"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>Scores of protesters have taken to the streets of London to mark the International Quds Day in solidarity with the Palestinian people.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The demonstration was held on the last Sunday of the holy month of Ramadan and saw people marching down Regent Street before gathering at the junction with Oxford Street.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters chanted \u201cFree Palestine\u201d and carried signs that read \u201cBoycott Israel\u201d, \u201cFreedom for Palestine\u201d and \u201cZionism = racism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Calls for boycotting Israel remained the main theme of the protest, a trend that has been promoted by pro-Palestinian activists for years as part of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, or BDS.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstrators also held banners that condemned Israel\u2019s \u201ccriminal siege and occupation\u201d of Palestinian lands and stated that \u201cJudaism rejects the Zionist state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170618\/80b098a6-d149-499b-96c3-c0bf0da7f487.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The rally began outside of the BBC headquarters and ended at the US Embassy in central London, according to Press TV\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/06\/18\/525738\/UK-Israel-Palestine-Quds-Day\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of protesters have taken to the streets of London to mark the International Quds Day in solidarity with the Palestinian people. The demonstration was held on the last Sunday of the holy month of Ramadan and saw people marching down Regent Street before gathering at the junction with Oxford Street. The protesters chanted \u201cFree [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":313419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-313418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=313418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/313418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/313419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=313418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=313418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=313418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}