I hate to say this, but the moosie section was much bigger. They took up a whole city block. And they had a megaphone where some man from Al Awda spoke in Arabic, and someone else was shouting Viva Pa-------.
The pro Israel side didn't have a megaphone. And the chants were rather lame. I would have preferred to see them shoulting F--k P-------e. But they didn't want to look bad.
yes... there was a massive protest a few years ago in london, maybe i'm remembering this completely wrongly, but I think 40,000 jews turned up!!! There must have been many many leftists too. I think it was Sharon time, and the press were really going for israel, showing dead babies, and jews were very worried, and wanted to show other britons that we mean peace..
So I think people weren't allowed to bring their own signs. Signs were printed that said "Yes to peace, No to terror". So you had rows and rows of those signs. Then Netanyahu spoke and "ruined it" for them!! by talking tough because they just wanted this nice simple peaceful message. the protest meant so much to people , I know somebody that died a year or two ago, he was in his 80s and stood for around 3 hours during that protest, it was around 2002.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/global/main.jhtml?xml=/global/2002/05/07/wmid07.xml30,000 British Jews in peace protest
There are only around 300,000 jews in britain!
I vaguely recall that France had an even bigger protest!! Like 400,000 jews.. Many soon left France.
When jews protest in such numbers, things are really really bad or potentially dangerous for jews in those countries.
it can also help israel get some international sympathy.. less international pressure