A symbolic red line, representing all those politicians in the United States and United Kingdom have failed to draw or allowed Israel to cross during the past 12 months, first appeared around the White House in Washington in June after US President Joe Biden had warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in March that he would cross a “red line” if he ordered an invasion of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinian civilians have sought shelter since Israel’s genocidal ethnic cleansing of Gaza began in October last year.

Biden’s warning did not prevent Israel going into Rafah and on 8 June humanitarian crusaders in the US surrounded the White House grounds with a red banner showing the names of more than 36,000 Palestinians killed during Netanyahu’s genocidal ethnic-cleansing campaign as a reminder for the US president and a representation of the line they were drawing over his backing of Israel and complicity in supporting the genocide militarily.

A few weeks later the symbolism crossed the ocean to Bournemouth, UK, where a half-kilometre-long satin red line was carried through the streets to serve as a reminder of the boundaries Israel should never have been allowed to cross by a complicit British government and politicians around the globe… boundaries defined by the sanctity of human rights, the horrors of genocide and the atrocities inflicted upon Gaza and Palestine... FULL STORY