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Demonstration outside the Royal Court of Justice in
support lifting the ban on Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation at the
Judicial Review, November 26 - Photo: AA
The Palestinian people, their Resistance and their historic defence of the right to be in the face of the barbarity of the US/Zionist genocide continues to inspire the peoples of the world. The peoples of the world are acting with similar conviction, providing a deep reservoir of moral, political and financial support and declaring they stand as one with the Palestinian people. Altogether, this makes for a quality that the US imperialists, Israeli Zionists and their accomplices in genocide can never defeat.
International campaign to demand the release of jailed
Palestinians, London, November 29 2025 - Photo: Workers' Weekly
This was fully evident with events at the November 29 International Day of Solidarity. Actions were held worldwide to mark the day, which was designated by the UN General Assembly in 1977 because 30 years earlier the same body had passed Resolution 181, officially sanctioning the carving up of Palestinian lands. These were followed by many protests on December 1, "Cyber Monday" targeting Amazon and Google for their support of US/Zionist genocide. No Tech for Genocide! End Surveillance Contracts Now! were among the demands.
Over 100,000 marched in London. The mood was militant and determined as protesters opposed the Gaza "peace plan" as a scheme for continued occupation that denies Palestinians any agency.
The International Day of Solidarity also saw the launch of an international campaign to demand the release of jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti, who has been in Israeli detention since 2002. According to the Quds News Network, the campaign aims to make Barghouti's release a central demand in the next phase of Gaza ceasefire negotiations. Israel denied his release during the first phase of the current ceasefire.
The campaign, being led by Barghouti's West Bank-based family with UK civil society support, is seeking to put the 66-year-old's fate at the centre of the next stage of the ceasefire. Murals with the words Free Marwan, co-ordinated by Calum Hall, the founder of Creative Debuts, a creative consultancy and art platform, have started to appear in London, and a huge public art installation appeared in the village of Kobar, near Ramallah.
Demonstration on November 29, London - Photo: Workers'
Weekly
An event was also held in France, the country that granted Barghouti "honorary citizenship" in more than 50 of its municipalities. In Italy, activists, including UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese and Greta Thunberg, participated in a conference in support of the call to free Barghouti and all Palestinian political prisoners. In Cape Town, South Africa, hundreds of people formed a human chain along a promenade at the coast, calling for his release. Barghouti was captured when Israeli soldiers disguised in an ambulance seized him in Ramallah, where he was serving as a political leader and elected parliamentarian. "He was taken to Israel in violation of the Geneva Conventions and later convicted in a trial widely condemned as illegitimate and politically motivated," the website freemarwan.org states.