At the Al Quds rally, many people waved the Iranian flag and held placards which said “Choose the right side of history”.<\/p>\n
Some demonstrators chanted “from the river to the sea” while others held pictures of the late Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.<\/p>\n
Al-Quds Day, named after the Arabic name for Jerusalem, is often held on the last Friday of Ramadan.<\/p>\n
It was first held shortly after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. Marches are held around the world, with the largest in Iran.<\/p>\n
At the counter-protest on the north bank of the River Thames, a range of different groups gathered, including Stop the Hate, a Jewish-led group set up to campaign against antisemitism, and anti-Iranian regime groups, Lion Guard of Iran and the Free Iran Coalition.<\/p>\n
Some people waved Israeli flags, and one sign read “Hamas is terrorist”.<\/p>\n
Co-founder of Stop the Hate UK, Itai Galmudy, told the BBC he had advocated for two-and-a-half-years to ban “these hate marches” and he believed “the political pressure finally got to where it needs to be”.<\/p>\n
“Allowing them to still stand in front of us and still spew their hate, even if it’s a static protest – that’s not something that should be facilitated in our country,” said Galmudy.<\/p>\n
Laleh Tangsiri, from Lion Guard of Iran, said she felt “very disappointed that we are not allowed to march and be a voice for people who are living in terror for 47 years”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the Al Quds rally, many people waved the Iranian flag and held placards which said “Choose the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477420,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-477419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}