“>“Those people don’t know what it’s like to live in the middle of Israel, to try to live with the conflict, to have to run with your kids to the shelter.The first thing my son asked when we moved to London two years ago was: ‘Mum, where can we find the shelter?’”…
Pro-Israel supporters, some of whom admitted to having felt apprehensive about attending the rally, said they left feeling jubilant. One lady said: “I feel an immense sense of connection and pride. I can’t believe the feeling of unity. I’ve been to a few protests, but this one tops them all.”
Another told the JC: “I never imagined I would be dancing to Moshiah in the middle of East Finchley High Road, waving an Israeli flag. It’s unprecedented.”
One of the organisers, Orit Eyal-Fibeesh, said afterwards: “We wanted to show that Israeli art, pride and spirit cannot be stopped.”
“We think that the world needs to know and needs to see [what happened on October 7]. They can’t hide any longer behind the atrocities they’ve committed. For the few of the hostages that are still live, we owe it to them to continue to fight and continue to show that Israel is not the evil in all of this.”
Asked how many people she had expected to come to support the film screening, Eyal-Fibeesh said: “We realised that people were eager to show up, but we didn’t realise how many people would come. There are people from across the community – left-wing right-wing, religious, non-religious. There is a wide consensus that Israel is alive and Israel is here to stay.
“We have our place – even in this country. We don’t want to hide. We will never hide. We will hold our heads high.”
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