We may be a long way from Gaza but its fate has been on our minds this week, and for the last two terrible years. Scotland has shared in the international anguish over the Hamas attack on Israel and Israel’s overwhelming response.

Marking the two year anniversary of the start of the conflict on Tuesday, students in Edinburgh and Glasgow, took part in UK-wide demonstrations calling for an end to the war and the recognition of a Palestinian state.

The demonstrations were condemned as “Un-British” by the prime minister Keir Starmer, coming as they did just a week after the attack on the Heaton Park Synagogue in Manchester. There were other demonstrations earlier in the week at Waverley and Glasgow Central stations against the arrest by Israeli forces of Scottish members of the Gaza Freedom

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