Tomorrow we will be marching again in London

Posted: 10th October 2025

Tomorrow we will be marching again in London, this time we hope in unprecedented numbers. Our call for the past few weeks has been loud and clear – as we commemorate 2 years of genocide – all to London.

The ceasefire does not change that. Now, more than ever, it is absolutely vital that we keep up the pressure on our government to push Israel to end its genocidal violence, occupation and apartheid rule over the Palestinian people.

Please join us and share our video to encourage your friends and family to do the same.

In the last few days as I have been interviewed by journalists I have been asked the same question over and again. Why are you marching if there is a ceasefire? So let me reiterate why this march is so important.

Tomorrow we will stand with the Palestinian people as they count the cost of a genocide that has killed over 67,000 people, including over 18,000 children, leaving uncounted thousands dead under the rubble. A genocide that has destroyed all the infrastructure of life in Gaza, flattened 90% of the housing stock, left not a single hospital fully functioning and driven hundreds of thousands to the point of famine.

Tomorrow, we will share the relief and joy of the Palestinian people that a ceasefire has been declared. We know why people were dancing 2 days ago on the streets of Khan Younis. Tomorrow, Palestinian parents may feel they do not have to write the names of their children upon their arms, so that if they are blown to pieces some part of them will be recognisable for burial. Tomorrow, I will remember the words of Atef Abu who on Jan 19, the day the last ceasefire was declared, wrote this:

“The dream of each person who died has been to hear this announcement. Lucky the man or woman who got to hear it. Lucky the child or adult who can start to think of making their way back to the pile of rubble that is their home. Lucky are those who will have time to breathe and think of tomorrow and maybe the day after.”

But we will also share the trepidation of the Palestinian people that this ceasefire will not hold, a trepidation rooted in the knowledge that Israel has violated every ceasefire it has ever signed and has been enabled to do so by western Governments including our own.

That’s why we must continue to march for Palestine to continue to press our government to end its complicity in Israel’s genocidal violence, occupation and apartheid. Will you join us as we march for Palestine tomorrow?

Above all, tomorrow we will assert the truth that Donald Trump’s plan is not a pathway to an enduring peace because it does not address the root causes of the violence. It has nothing to say about the killing, displacement, ethnic cleansing and destruction that is continuing today in the West Bank. It has nothing to say about the steps that are required to end the occupation. It has nothing to say about what is required to dismantle the structure of apartheid that exists across all of historic Palestine. It has nothing to say about the steps required to enable the majority of the Palestinian people, including all of my family, to return from exile to the homes from which their families were expelled in 1948.

It is a plan that seeks to normalise Israel’s ongoing crimes – to return to business as usual. We will not allow this renormalisation of Israel to happen. Netanyahu’s plan, which he openly discussed, was to drive every Palestinian from Gaza and illegally colonise the land. He has only been prevented from completing that plan and continuing the genocide by the refusal of Palestinians to submit and by the pressure of the global solidarity movement which has led to Israel being more isolated then at any time in its history. Donald Trump admitted this when he told Netanyahu you “can’t fight the world.”

So our task now is to say this: if the immediate genocide manifested in the daily mass slaughter of Palestinians and their forced starvation may be coming to an end, their oppression under a system of colonisation occupation and apartheid is not. The complicity of our Government, public bodies and companies and corporations with that system of oppression is also not ended.

Our demand is for an end to all of that complicity and we do not stop campaigning and protesting until it is met.

Right now, instead of holding Israel to account by introducing sanctions and a full arms embargo as its own members demanded at its conference last week, the Labour Government is devoting its energy to ramping up its repression of our movement. They have promised to bring in yet another measure to repress the right to protest, framing us once more as hate marchers and a threat to our fellow citizens. Grotesquely they and other political leaders are weaponising a racist attack on a synagogue to demonise all of us. We will resist any new law and we will stay united around the principles on which we have marched for 2 years. These principles are rooted not in hatred but in love, the love that is the well spring of all solidarity, the belief that an injustice to anyone anywhere is an injustice to everyone, everywhere. The belief that standing up to racism and racist violence anywhere, means standing up to it everywhere.

This struggle is a struggle for justice and the rights of the Palestinian people but it is also a struggle for the world we want for ourselves and for our children, for the tomorrow we want to see. We know and we never forget that none of us are free until the Palestinian people are free.

So that is why, in our hundreds of thousands, we will march once more in London. Join us.

In solidarity,

Ben Jamal,

Director, PSC