Pro-Palestinian flags and signs were spotted at various protests for action against climate change on November 6.
The protests were held in response to the COP26Summit, which global leaders have been attending since October 31 in Glasgow, Scotland to discuss climate change. In London, various protesters held Palestinian flags while chanting “Free Palestine” and “From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free.”
So yeah er Free Palestine #COP26 etc pic.twitter.com/MIodGCm3wO
— Harry's Place (@hurryupharry) November 6, 2021
And of course "from the river to the sea" just in case there were any Israelis looking to attend the demonstration, they can be aware that their country needs to be dismantled to ahem save the envirenment pic.twitter.com/ep5yHAqDhu
— Harry's Place (@hurryupharry) November 6, 2021
Writer Emily Schrader tweeted out a video of various protesters holding Palestinian flags at the protest in Glasgow and wrote: “Once again, Palestinian protesters hijack a cause that has absolutely nothing to do with them and [make] it about themselves.”
Palestinian flags at climate change protest in Glasgow #COP26
Once again, Palestinian protesters hijack a cause that has absolutely nothing to do with them and it about themselves.
— Emily Schrader – אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر (@emilykschrader) November 6, 2021
One video showed a man confronting a handful of women at one of the protests on why they were holding Palestinian flags. One woman who was holding a megaphone replied that Israel is a “climate issue” because “imperialism is a climate issue” and accused Israel of “destroying the environment.” When the man countered that Israel is at the forefront of planting more trees, the women started talking over him; the woman with a megaphone started chanting “F— your Zionist narrative” and another claimed that the trees had nothing to do with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
This is antisemitism in 2021, in line with how antisemitism has always been. Insane, illogical, conspiratorial, obsessive. pic.twitter.com/LYApik2gxl
— Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) November 8, 2021
This is from @JTVChannel
— Blake Flayton (@blakeflayton) November 8, 2021
Fiona Ben Chekroun, European Coordinator for the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) National Committee, attended the Glasgow protest and told the Peoples Dispatch that Israel is engaging “greenwashing.” “They are using Palestinian natural resources, destroying Palestinian land, violating rights of indigenous Palestinian people, they are extracting gas and natural resources from Palestine, and all of this with the complicity of European governments and the European Union,” she alleged.
During yesterday’s #GlobalDayofAction we spoke to Fiona Ben Chekroun the coordinator of @BDSmovement in Europe.
She told us the role Israel plays in environmental devastation while simultaneously using greenwashing to cover up its crimes against Palestinians.#COP26 pic.twitter.com/bN0gasK8nh
— Peoples Dispatch (@peoplesdispatch) November 7, 2021
Various pro-Israel Twitter accounts responded to the pro-Palestinian protesters.
“Guess the quota of global CO2 emissions Israel is responsible for? 0.18%,” Scottish journalist and pro-Israel activist Eve Barlow tweeted. “I just looked it up. One thing has nothing to do with the other. These people are antisemites.”
Guess the quota of global CO2 emissions Israel is responsible for? 0.18%. I just looked it up.
One thing has nothing to do with the other. These people are antisemites. pic.twitter.com/Q7kUSYY11F
— Eve Barlow (@Eve_Barlow) November 7, 2021
[/speaker-mute] Writer and activist Yoni Michanie tweeted, “Other than tearing down dozens of greenhouses and celebrating the incendiary kites and balloons that have damaged farmlands and nature reserves, as well as burning tires for days on end, what have Palestinian leaders contributed to the fight against climate change?”
Other than tearing down dozens of greenhouses and celebrating the incendiary kites and balloons that have damaged farmlands and nature reserves, as well as burning tires for days on end, what have Palestinian leaders contributed to the fight against climate change? https://t.co/e6vqv2b1TB
— Yoni Michanie (@YoniMichanie) November 6, 2021
The New Zionist Congress tweeted, “Pay attention to how many doors are closing. We can’t be ‘Zionist’ and LGBT, we can’t be ‘Zionist’ and support DC Statehood, we can’t be ‘Zionist’ and combat climate change, we can’t be ‘Zionist’ and support racial justice. Jews must speak out against this familiar evil.”
Pay attention to how many doors are closing. We can't be "Zionist" and LGBT, we can't be "Zionist" and support DC Statehood, we can't be "Zionist" and combat climate change, we can't be "Zionist" and support racial justice.
Jews must speak out against this familiar evil. https://t.co/aviPjDbpF6
— New Zionist Congress (@newzionists) November 7, 2021
StandWithUs Israel Executive Director Michael Dickson also tweeted, “The only thing these ‘activists’ want to rid the climate of, is Jews.”
The only thing these “activists”
want to rid the climate of, is Jews. https://t.co/Lyy4Hu8vDh— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) November 7, 2021
Human rights lawyer Arsen Ostrovsky, who heads the International Legal Forum, tweeted, “And how much hot air produced by these antisemites? 100 per cent.”
And how much hot air produced by these antisemites? 💯 per cent. https://t.co/YO6G3DkUyP
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) November 7, 2021
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