More than 20,000 Londoners hold Munich moment of silence
More than 20,000 people in various venues in London
attended the British Zionist Federation’s “Minute for Munich” program that was
promoted via social media.
A short memorial service at the Israeli Embassy that was
organized by the Zionist Federation was streamed live online Friday, according
to the London Jewish Chronicle.
About 200 people marked the Minute for Munich in Trafalgar
Square, reciting memorial prayers and lighting memorial candles. Afterwards,
they waved British and Israeli flags in front of media covering the event.
“The British Jewish community is showing its solidarity
with our brothers and sisters in Israel,” the British Israel Coalition’s Ari
Soffer told the crowd, according to the Chronicle. “We should not allow this
tragedy to go uncommemorated. This is a time to show our respect and remember
the dead.”
The families of the victims of the 1972 Munich massacre,
in which 11 Israeli Olympics athletes and coaches were murdered by Palestinian
terrorists, have mounted a global campaign to get the International Olympic
Committee to hold an official moment of silence at the Games.
The IOC continues
to reject the call, despite its being endorsed by President Obama, GOP
presumptive presidential nominee Mitt Romney, the U.S. Senate, the German
Bundestag, the Canadian and Australian parliaments, about 50 members of the
British Parliament, the Israeli government and Jewish organizations worldwide.
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