About 300,000 protestors began marching in London around midday on 11 November, marking the largest protest in the city since 7 October according to the Metropolitan Police. “The main pro-Palestinian march formed up about midday. It’s fair to say the march is absolutely enormous. It’s the biggest we’ve seen since the start of this period,” Met Police assistant commissioner Matt Twist told the BBC. One protestor interviewed by the BBC said that he is protesting to demand a ceasefire. “We want a ceasefire. People are suffering, children are dying under the rubble, and no one seems to care about them,” the man said. Ninety-two ‘counter-protestors’ from right-wing groups have been arrested so far. “You’re not English anymore,” the counter-protestors shouted at police. Earlier this week, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the planned protests, coinciding with Armistice Day, “provocative and disrespectful.” Home Secretary Suella Braverman had also previously criticized pro-Palestine demonstrations, calling them “hate marches” and criticizing the chant “from the river to the sea Palestine will be free.” Critics of the chant consider it to imply the erasure of Jews and Israel, while others have contended that it means…
