Good question, popular opinion demonstrated against Apartheid and collective punishment gets democratic governments to enforce sanctions, and put economic pressure on the violating country. This is how south african apartheid ended, through slow economic and sanction pressure.
how is a protest march in a city, on an island, in a different continent going to do anything in Gaza?
Sometimes, solidary is better than nothing when you feel powerless.
With a lot of effort, we can hope to make London as bad as Gaza?
You’re going to bring in Nazi SS Storm troopers, build a wall around it, and then kill all the native Londoners?
Nope, just keep bringing in another 500K-600K per year, of illegal immigrants from predominantly Muslim countries, and they’ll take care of it…
Are you asking how protest works in general? The place doesn’t matter much. Do you want them to protest in gaza? They can’t go there
The UK is one of Israel’s strongest supporters after the US, so pressure from them can do a lot.
why would the UK government care what it’s citizens want? I suppose there’s a first time for everything but I rather suspect that it wont be this time
It’s not, but generally in democracies, people protest to let their own government and their fellow citizens know how they feel about an issue.
When the issue is domestic, they are generally seeking a policy change.
When the issue is foriegn, they usually hope to influence their own country’s foriegn policy stance/actions on that issue.
Good question, popular opinion demonstrated against Apartheid and collective punishment gets democratic governments to enforce sanctions, and put economic pressure on the violating country. This is how south african apartheid ended, through slow economic and sanction pressure.
Because Hamas tactics include an information war to win sympathies.