Peaceful pro-Palestine protestors in the North of Ireland were yet again subjected to violent assaults in two separate incidents in Belfast over the weekend. Violent Islamophobia-motivated attack on pro-Palestine protestersIn the first attack, a demonstrator who was part of a protest at BBC Broadcasting House building was struck in the face during an attempted theft of a Palestine flag. Witnesses reported two visibly intoxicated men – one still holding a bottle of alcohol – charge towards the protestors. As they lunged for the flag shouting “get that fucking flag out of our country”, one Palestine activist was hit, before a tussle ensued over possession of the flag. The parting act of the racists was to hurl the bottle of alcohol in the general direction of the activists.