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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Speaking at the Cairo Peace Summit, he said: "This has been an issue which has long stimulated passions and we are now all seeing on social media and in our communities how divisive and polarising the current situation has become.

Protesters on the London march were heard chanting a slogan that some use to call for Palestinian control of all land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, including Israel.

She has previously urged police chief constables to "consider... whether its use in certain context may amount to a racially aggravated" offence, although the Met has said the chant alone does not constitute a criminal act.

People Before Profit assembly member Gerry Carroll said they aimed to "challenge" how the BBC had covered the conflict in the Middle East.

A BBC spokesperson said the corporation had provided audiences around the world with coverage and first-hand testimony "of the atrocities committed by Hamas, and the suffering in Gaza".

"We have made clear the devastating human cost to civilians living in Israel and Gaza, and the unprecedented nature of what has happened," the spokesperson added.


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