We saw massive protests from around the world this week.

We saw 10,000 amass in London and again thousands pro-Palestinians rallying, largely expressing their anger at the BBC for their awfully shocking biased reporting of the Gaza genocide by Israeli military.

We have also seen demonstrations in Canada’s cities including Montreal, Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary. We have also had demonstrations in various parts of the US, such as Austin, San Diego, New Orleans, Portland, Hartford, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Albuquerque, Omaha, Syracuse, Dearborn, Indianapolis, Nashville, Fort Lauderdale, Tampa, New York, Chicago, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles and Washington DC.

We are also seeing protests in Glasgow, Derry, Belfast, Galway, Paris, Strasbourg, Berlin, Malmo, The Hague, Athens, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Rome, Turin, Florence, Geneva, Brussels and Istanbul.

Algeria, Morocco, Jordan, Yemen, Lebanon, Colombia, Bolivia, Australia, South Africa and India are also getting a piece of the action.

As a seasoned activist for at least 8years, it is a very very hopeful sight. The Intifada is truly becoming more global. But there is something we need to raise and discuss: The Palestinian political movement is still largely underfunded and really not organised.

The consequence of this is that between the massive onslaughts of Palestinians of the like we are seeing now, Israel can continue to kill civilians, build more illegal colonies, lock up more children and starve the people of Gaza of resources.

The current state of our movement currently doesn’t work.

For one, out of the majority that march for Palestine all over the world, the majority will not add more value to the movement until the next major global mass protest. It largely becomes, frankly, a waste of their time.

The pragmatic protest is not just to create a surge of publicity and media attention, but also to galvanise and draft in new manpower into the movement and the institutions. The former we can’t always control, but the latter is in our control and, most of the time, simply isn’t happening.

This is sad, because all the main work needs to happen between the massacres that Israel enacts on the Palestinian people. This is where the turning of the political tide need to be focused on.

But what can be done?

Mobile Apps — Technology allows to create short, quickfire action alerts, news feeds and live updates on the go.

Government Lobbying & Elections — If our movement’s institutions had more money and more manpower, they would be able to initiate more effective lobbying campaigns, particularly at election time. MPACUK were and still are the only pro-Palestinian organisation that has effectively deseated Zionist MPs & ministers. Something that other institutions of the movement have not been able to replicate. They simply need more manpower and more money.

Localised Community “Hubs” — it can be difficult to mobilise an entire nation mass of supporters. There will always be some lag in mobilisation, just to get everyone on the same page. A shared network, in which representatives can mobilise and manage smaller groups of people in their local area would decrease mobilising time and increase mobilising power. This is something that can be built co-operatively and even on an international scope.

Media Lobbying — This doesn’t just mean effective and well executed action alerts, but it also means dedicated spokespeople for the Palestinian cause.

BDS — The international boycott of Israel has seen massive successes over the past 5 years. However, there is still not enough emphasis in calling for sanctions from individual nations states. Once this is done, the boycott would would multiply and be more effectively enforced. But this needs us to be alot more long-term, strategic lobbying and greater co operation amoung the nation state’s activist groups.

Supporting Palestinian Economies — As part of the BDS movement, we also need to make effort to create markets for Palestinian co-operatives, like Zaytoun, to strengthen their independence. This will deter Palestinians to work for Israeli factories in occupied land in order to just survive. This demands supply chain management, international business know-how and the necessary international collaboration to go with it.

All the above needs and only becomes possible with greater amount of organisation from all institutions involved. It also needs more activists to be part of those insititutions and not at the lay side until the next major demonstration.

If we can organise on this level with the mass of people we have, we would be truly unstoppable. The Zionist machine certainly has its weaknesses and even in its corporate nature would not be able to compete. We just need to get organised.

Every single person who goes to the a demo needs to dedicate 1 hour or more of their week to helping the Palestinian cause in part of an organised effort. (Join an organisation or create your own, I don’t care.) Whilst at the same time, everyone who is a dedicated activist, should be enrolling and inspiring people to be more than a unit at a protest.

In turn, the movement leaders in each area of the world need to look towards being more innovative in their activism by promoting and developing one or more of the above methods and tools.

We must understand that Palestine will not be free from the protests we do. They will be free from the sustained, pro-active and relentless effort the movement can apply to the world BETWEEN these massive protests. And for that they need you. Every single one of you.

There are so many organisations an activist can join. There is Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), Friends of Al Aqsa (FOA), Labour Friends of Palestine (LFPME) and there are groups in trade unions, universities. If however, at the end of the protest, you go home and do nothing, then its as if you might not have been there at all.