Video: Liverpool’s busiest hospitality street falls quiet as silent march for Gaza passes

Music and conversation are muted as anti-genocide march passes in silence – except at one US-themed bar

Liverpool’s Bold Street, the busiest in the city for dining and socialising, fell into an eerie quiet this afternoon as a march for Gaza and against Britain’s complicity in Israel’s genocide – silent today for a large part of its route to mark a full year of slaughter that has seen hundreds of thousands murdered and maimed with the support of the US, UK and German governments – passed by.

The street is normally loud and lively, with drinkers and diners at pavement tables and music from restaurants and bars spilling out. But today, as if by design – but according to the organisers without any prior arrangement – almost the whole street became strikingly muted:

Only one place, an American-themed bar with US flags hanging outside it, was still loud – perhaps a little less loud than usual, though one of the stewards said it had blocked the street with chairs for the previous week’s march – and one middle-aged man walked off ahead of the march with middle finger raised to the bloodied dolls representing the tens of thousands of infants and children slaughtered by the genocidal apartheid regime.

But apart from those, the sombre march passed down the whole length of the street to near-silence.

Free Palestine. End the genocide. Stop arming Israel.

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