YouTube: BARCLAY PRIMARY IN EAST LONDON PROTEST HIGHLIGHTS
Scenes from the protest at Barclay Primary in Leyton as children had been unable to show solidarity with Gaza whilst in school, such as on a non-school uniform day for Children In Need. At the centre of it has been an eight-year-old pupil who is said to be ostracised after wearing a Palestine badge on his coat.
Parents at Barclay Primary School in London, UK protest victimisation of pupils over pro-Palestinian sentiment
Parents and pupils are protesting a crackdown at Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London targeting protests and expressions of sympathy with the Palestinians of Gaza.
British-Palestinian Boy ‘Humiliated’ By School for Wearing Flag
Parents protested outside an east London primary school on Thursday morning after a British Palestinian child faced “extraordinarily degrading and humiliating punishments” from the school’s management for refusing to remove a small Palestine flag patch stitched into his coat.
London school issues Prevent referral warning over Palestine comments
Barclay Primary School, Leyton, East London, is embroiled in a dispute with parents after the it published a letter in November warning that students or parents who express “offensive” comments on Palestine could be reported to the UK government counter-extremism initiative, Prevent.
Parents and students defend free speech on Palestine at east London school
Eight year-old Yahya—whose mother is from Gaza—was disciplined for wearing a Palestine flag on his jacket. Around 200 students, parents and supporters gathered outside Barclay Primary School in Leyton, east London, on Thursday morning to show their support for eight year-old Yahya. The school management disciplined him for wearing a small Palestinian flag on his jacket.