Activists from Workers' Liberty, the Worker-communist Party of Kurdistan, and the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists' Tendency, protested outside the Israeli embassy in London on 15 June against the Israeli government's new shift to the right and for two states for the two nations in Israel-Palestine.
The moderate liberal Israeli daily Haaretz responded to Israeli prime minister Netanyahu's reorganisation of his coalition to give the key post of defence minister to ultra-rightist Avigdor Liberman by saying that Netanyahu had "chose[n] to veer right and establish an ideological, racist coalition that aims to entrench the occupation, expand the settlements in the territories, oppress the Arab minority and undermine Israeli democracy.”
The protesters also recalled that this month marks the 49th anniversary of Israel's occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and called for recognition of the right of the Palestinians to an independent state alongside Israel.
