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Hundreds attend Al Quds Day protest in London

August 20, 2012 10:33

By

Marcus Dysch,

Marcus Dysch

1 min read

Anti-Israel Jews and a Church of England vicar were among the speakers as hundreds of people attended the anti-Zionist Al Quds Day protest in central London.

The annual event – instigated by the late Iranian revolutionary leader Ayatollah Khomeini – calls for the "liberation" of Jerusalem from Israeli control.

The crowds outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square on Friday afternoon included dozens of families and children. There was a large police presence.

Yakov Weisz of the strictly Orthodox anti-Zionist sect Neturei Karta told the rally that Israel was an embarrassment to all Jews.

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