Pro-Palestine groups plan protests on Armistice Day in United Kingdom
Armistice Day, observed annually on November 11, marks the armistice signed between the Allies and Germany that brought fighting on the Western Front during World War I to an end.
Pro-Palestine organizations in the UK are organizing protests on Armistice Day, November 11, to coincide with the annual commemoration. Armistice Day, observed on November 11, marks the end of World War I fighting in 1918. The UK traditionally observes two minutes of silence at 11 a.m. and holds Remembrance Sunday services near Armistice Day to honor fallen soldiers.
However, pro-Palestine groups argue that Armistice Day is a "ritual of selective memory" and refuse to let the event be co-opted by state-sanctioned violence. They plan "Hands of Palestine" events, urging participants to support Palestinian liberation, an immediate arms embargo, and the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement.
The Westminster branch of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign will protest at the Conservative-run Westminster City Council offices, while some are criticized for selling Palestine-colored poppy pins, which pro-Palestine groups deem "unashamedly political" and divorced from remembrance.
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