#assen

The conditions under which Gaza's population is heading into winter are inhumane. But not enough people in my country are paying attention to the issue. Tonight's was the last pot banging demo outside Assen station this year. I'm hoping for some kind of Christmas miracle so we don't have to return on the 8th of January. Unfortunately, with the plight of Palestinians having been pushed out of the news there doesn't seem to be much chance of a rapid improvement so I expect we'll be back next year to continue to try to raise awareness. #gaza #potbangingforgaza #Assen #Palestine #IsraelTerroristState

After a two week break, we were supposed to be protesting for Gaza at Assen railway station again today. No-one else was there. It's cold and icy. That's presumably why people stayed away. While a million other things have been in the news since we last met to protest about Israel's disgusting behaviour towards Palestinians, an end to the genocide was not one of them. Israel is instead using the fog of other issues to carry on their genocidal behaviour while people are distracted by the other issues. #israel #Gaza #Palestine #israeligenocide #IsraelTerroristState #Assen

Pot banging for Gaza outside Assen station this evening. Other horrors come and go but the abysmal treatment of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank carries on. The world's press is looking elsewhere, but Israel remains a genocidal state supported by the USA, with a leader wanted who is wanted by the ICC. #bds #BoycottIsrael #boycottusa #potbangingforgaza #gaza #palestine #assen

Israel's genocide continues and we were pot banging for Gaza outside Assen station this evening. Palestinians deserve justice, freedom and self determination. Not whatever will result from Trump's "board of peace". #potbangingforgaza #gaza #palestine #israel #israelgenocidalstate #Assen #bds #BoycottIsrael #boycottusa

Pot banging for Gaza outside Assen railway station again tonight. We wouldn't have to do it if the Israeli's could behave in a civilized way and stopped murdering Palestinians. #gaza #palestine #potbanging #potbangingforgaza #assen #IsraelTerroristState

Photos from last Thursday and this evening of the weekly protest for Gaza at Assen railway station. Last week we were pot banging, as we do most weeks. This week we listened in silence as names of Palestinians killed by the Israelis were read out. Each name is read out with the age of the deceased. In one hour we had time only for a small fraction of the dead. There's time to remember only a few hundred out of the tens of thousands who have been killed. Clearly many people were touched by the message, especially when they heard the names of young children. Many people took leaflets. Hopefully many of them will at the very least be prepared to join the boycott of Israeli goods. Who wouldn't be affected by the murder of infants ? #potbangingforgaza #assen #bds #boycottisrael #israeliWarCrimes #palestine #gaza

Pot banging for Gaza tonight outside Assen railway station. Genocidal Israel's appetite for death is enormous. Palestinians are still kept in a state of suffering, while the Israelis also attack Iran and Lebanon. All of this is assisted by the USA, which under the current regime is even further off the rails than is usual for that continuously war mongering country. #assen #gaza #palestine #potbangingforgaza #BDS #BDSUSA #IsraelTerroristState #stopthewar #STOPtheBOMBING #STOPtheGENOCIDE

This evening a group of us once more protested for Palestine and against the Israeli genocide outside Assen railway station. This happens outside all Dutch railway stations (or at least many of them) from 18:00 until 19:00, every Thursday. Thinking as always of the many people suffering from Israel's and the USA's genocidal violence, be they in Gaza, the West Bank, Iran, Lebanon, Syria or any other land undergoing war and occupation. #potbangingforgaza #Gaza #Palestine #IsraeliWarCrimes #IsraelTerroristState #Assen #bds #BDSIsrael #BDSUSA

This is the last Thursday of the month so our protest at Assen railway station was in silence apart from the reading of names and ages of Palestinians killed by Israel. All the deaths are tragedies, but it hits harder when the ages are those of children and infants. #gaza #palestine #assen #protestforgaza #IsraeliWarCrimes #bds #BDSIsrael #BDSUSA

Today's protest at Assen station was an emergency action in response to the Israeli introduction of a death sentence for Palestinians only. We were indoors with placards, and a recording which sounds a lot like the usual public address system in the railway station, but which informs people about the ongoing genocide. Don't buy Israeli goods ! Join a protest in your area ! #gaza #palestine #israelTerroristState #israelWarCrimes #Stopgenocide #bds #bdsisrael #bdsusa #assen

Today's pot-banging protest at Assen railway station. A group of us gathered as we do every Thursday evening from 18:00 until 19:00. There's very obviously more interest from the public now than there was a few weeks ago. Several people came up and asked for leaflets rather than having to be offered one. Other people walked past doing thumb's up and peace signs with their hands. Israel has for a long time managed to convince people in the west that they are somehow the victims of their own violence. Their recent war crimes have been so blatant that they have lifted the veils from many people's eyes. Everyone can now see for themselves who the real terrorist state of the middle east is. #Assen #Gaza #Palestine #potbangingforgaza #bds #bdsusa #bdsisrael #israelTerroristState #israelwarCrimes

Today's demo for Gaza outside Assen railway station. A lot of people joined in today, waving, thumbs up, making heart signs, taking information leaflets or their own photos of posters, even borrowing pots from us so they could join ib. It is clear that the majority of people are opposed to Israel's genocidal behaviour, but our politicians don't seem to have received the message loudly enough. Hopefully our pot banging helped to get the message through. #gaza #palestine #IsraelTerroristState #genocide #assen #potbangingforgaza #bds #BDSIsrael #BoycottIsrael

This evening's protest for Gaza in Assen railway station. We were indoors reading names and ages of those killed by Israel in their genocide of the Gazan people, and handing out information about what is happening and the organised boycott of Israeli businesses. #gaza #palestine #IsraelTerroristState #israeligenocide #Assen #bds #BDSIsrael

Thursday's protest for Gaza outside Assen railway station. Israel's genocide against Palestinians continues unabated. Israel's aggression towards the citizens of its "allies" also continues, as seen with the abuse of hundreds of people in the aid flotilla 1000 km from Israel. Our nations continue to ignore the disgusting behaviour of the Israeli state. What can we do ? Protest and Boycott. Boycott Israel. Don't buy Israeli goods. Don't allow Israeli entrants to take part in international events. #israelTerroristState #stopgenocide #assen #gaza #palestine #bds #bdsisrael

Tonight's protest for Gaza outside Assen railway station. No pot banging tonight. Instead we serenaded train passengers with a version of Bella Ciao adapted by Joke Kaviaar. https://todon.nl/@Jo/115406795320803892 @Jo@todon.nl#gaza #palestine #assen #bds #BDSIsrael #IsraelTerroristState

Today's protest for Palestine at Assen railway station. On the last Thursday of every month we go inside the railway station. Instead of pot banging, someone reads the names and ages of Palestinians murdered by the Israelis. There are around 70000 confirmed deaths of people whose names are known. Their age at death varies from newborn all the way to centenarians. Obviously we can only read a small fraction of the names in one hour. Many people stop and listen for a while while they wait for their train. https://airwars.org/moh-list/ Israel has not stopped. They continue to commit genocide while most other countries take no action at all. #gaza #palestine #assen #israelterroristState #gazagenocide #bds #bdsisrael

I forgot to upload a photo of Thursday's protest for Palestine here in Assen but I can now upload one of today's protest in Groningen as well. In Assen we sang. In Groningen we were silent. Lots of people took leaflets with information. Lots of people gave us thumbs up or other obvious signs of agreement. In Groningen today there were a couple of strange people who were trying very hard to get into arguments or who wanted to photograph us all. This is harassment by people who know they have lost any kind of moral support for their argument or for their actions. There is no moral justification for the ongoing genocide committed by Israel. Individuals can't necessarily do much from a distance, but at the very least we can choose not to support the genocide by not buying Israeli goods or services. Boycott Israel. #gaza #palestine #assen #groningen #bds #bdsisrael #boycottIsrael

I don't have any good photos of tonight's protest for Palestine by Assen railway station. For the entire duration of the protest we were filmed by someone who also turned up in Groningen on Saturday and filmed everyone there as well. The zionists lost the argument a long time ago. They have no justification for the continued genocidal behaviour of Israel. They have no justification for continuing to murder and torture innocent people. So instead of occasionally showing up and shouting at us it seems that they've switched to harassing us on the streets, doing all they can to try to make innocent people feel uncomfortable. We see you. As I understand it, this man is already quite well known to the police in Groningen, and now also in Assen. #gaza #palestine #protest #israelterroristState #assen #bds #bdsisrael #boycottisrael #haveyouseenthisweirdo ?

Tonight's demo for Gaza and Palestine featured a lot of singing about peace. We were videoed again for more than an hour by the same weirdo who did that last week. After last week's demo he spent a lot of time on X/Twitter posting zoomed in videos/photos of us, referring to us in disgusting and sometimes slightly threatening language (one of the women is called a "warmed up corpse"). This week he seems to have tried to encourage his mates to turn up. But his mates are on X, and bots don't travel well. So he's on his own again, in the middle of this photo, standing next to the public toilet with his phone in one hand, while his other hand is in his pocket. He stands there, completely alone and friendless, trying to think of some way to dream up unpleasant things to say about a dozen or so people who he doesn't know, but who he doesn't like to see standing together with friends and singing about peace. I'm starting to feel sorry for him. Does he ever smile ? Has he ever achieved anything in his life except descending into a bot-laden bubble of nonsense on X. He needs help. I've again fuzzed his photo, because I'm not like him. We'll keep protesting about the attrocities carried out by the Israeli state. #gaza #palestine #antifa #assen #weirdo #israelterroriststate #bds #bdsisrael

This evening's protest for Palestine at Assen railway station. As usual we met to try to inform people as they passed through the railway station. There were banners, leaflets and we were singing songs of peace and solidarity. Israel's genocide of the Palestinian people continues while most of the the world looks away. You don't have to be one of those who looks away. #gaza #palestine #assen #bds #bdsisrael #israelTerroristState #StopGenocide #israeligenocide