There are certainly ill minded people, anti-Semitic people, and those with extremist interest who have joined the march. There is no denying they are there. They are virtually nothing in a sea of 500,000 people who are marching for Gaza to live. Simply live. Not from the river to the sea. Not at with the annihilation of Israel.
Many who attend aren’t even partially versed on the drawn out conflict between Israeli and Palestinian governments through the decades. But people do see the suffering right now through war on Gaza, which is a sustained attack on innocent people, which is - and I stress this point - supported by our government. The vast majority of marchers want the war to stop. They are lobbying their government to do that.
If our governments supported an ongoing bombardment of Israel, you can bet 500,000 people would turn up to support the existence of Israel. I absolutely would be one of them.