Police will let pro-Palestine hate protest go ahead in Manchester this evening
The British Transport Police (BTP) said they are stepping up patrols after pro-Palestine activists began urging each other to descend on Manchester station at 5.30pm on Thursday.
A force spokesman said BTP would “facilitate peaceful protest” but that officers would intervene if protesters tried to get inside the station.
Social media posts urged pro-Palestine activists to “block the tracks” in protest against Israel’s arrest of Greta Thunberg.
Thunberg and a group of friends were detained earlier this week off the Israeli coast after attempting to sail what they described as the “Sumud flotilla” to Gaza.
Posters being shared on social media urged pro-Palestine activists to converge on 19 locations around the country between 5.30pm and 6pm on Thursday. Most of them are major railway stations in major towns and cities.
Locations named include Parliament Square, Cardiff Central, Sheffield train station, Farnborough station in Surrey, Liverpool Lime Street and Manchester Piccadilly station.