Scottish First Minister's support for Palestine march in London
Scotland's First Minister announced his support for a major march for Palestine in London on November 11, coinciding with the anniversary of the armistice at the end of the First World War, and expressed his dissatisfaction with the British government's opposition to the march. According to the Press Association news agency, Hamza Youssef, in an interview with journalists in Dundee, said that a demonstration in support of Palestine should take place in London on November 11. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's government said the demonstration was alarming and condemned it, but Hamza Yusuf said British authorities' description of it as a "hate march" was "unacceptable." Organizers of the demonstration said it would start from Hyde Park in London and continue to the American Embassy, but would not pass the monument to British deaths in the First World War, known as the Cenotaph. In response to the demonstration, Sunak said he "fully and absolutely supports London Police's action to tackle criminal behaviour". The parents of Yousef's Palestinian wife were under siege by the Zionist regime in Gaza, but they recently managed to escape from the enclave. Some time ago, when Yusuf was concerned about the lives of his wife's parents in Gaza, he attacked Rishi Sonak and Labor Party leader Kerr Starmer for refusing to call for a ceasefire in Gaza, despite having witnessed crimes committed by the Zionist regime. They visited the enclave before the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Storm to visit several family members, including the grandmother and son-in-law of Scotland's first minister, who are still in Gaza.
