{"id":949682,"date":"2026-05-10T04:09:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:09:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949682\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:09:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:09:36","slug":"palestine-protest-forces-clothing-store-zara-to-close-in-belfast-city-centre-the-irish-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/949682\/","title":{"rendered":"Palestine protest forces clothing store Zara to close in Belfast city centre \u2013 The Irish News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A protest in support of Palestine forced a clothing retailer in Belfast city centre to shut on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Protestors entered the Zara premises in Donegall Place at lunchtime to hand out leaflets before protesting outside for about an hour waving Palestinian flags.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Palestine supporters protest outside the Zara store in Belfast, the store closed for around an hour. PICTURE: MAL MCCANN\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5ARGMBYKDJEQ7ME7MY5IK6O3DU.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Palestine supporters protest outside Zara in Donegall Place. PICTURE: MAL MCCANN <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Organised by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign along with Trade Union Friends of Palestine and Jews for Palestine &#8211; Ireland, the \u2018Boycott Zara\u2019 rally was in response to the retailer\u2019s alleged support of Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, with a poster for Saturday\u2019s protest stating \u2018Zara Supports Racist Ben-Gvir\u2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police arrived at the end of the protest but didn\u2019t intervene.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/noah-donohoe-inquest-live-latest-updates-as-proceedings-enter-day-14-YIH4IZOLAVEZJPKY3XST4NUTDM\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Noah Donohoe inquest: Initial storm drain searches in Belfast park suspended due to &#x2018;hostile&#x2019; crowd\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/OT6KUX6MEJDEFJJG4DCS5OCWYA.JPG\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><a class=\"c-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.irishnews.com\/news\/northern-ireland\/american-and-polish-clerics-join-corkman-in-triple-ordination-at-st-patricks-cathedral-armagh-S4DIFVMZDZGKNDRH76QD6IBELI\/\" aria-hidden=\"true\" tabindex=\"-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"American and Polish clerics join Corkman in triple ordination at St Patrick&#x2019;s Cathedral Armagh\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SQIWM6UKP5GRFBU7PO4XTICF34.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Palestine supporters protest outside the Zara store in Belfast, the store closed for around an hour. PICTURE: MAL MCCANN\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/WXX6OGA6BBCHNCCHG5EC7A5U5A.jpeg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Police arrived at the end of the protest but didn\u2019t intervene. PICTURE: MAL MCCANN <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In a statement, a PSNI spokesperson said: \u201cPolice received a report of an ongoing protest inside retail premises on Donegall Place, Belfast city centre, at around 12.30pm on Saturday, May 9.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOn officer attendance, approximately ten people were outside the premises, which had been temporarily closed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cNo offences were disclosed and the protest ended a short time later.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Zara has been approached for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A protest in support of Palestine forced a clothing retailer in Belfast city centre to shut on Saturday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":949683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,1814,18744,16,15,18338],"class_list":{"0":"post-949682","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-palestine","10":"tag-protest","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-zara"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116548322396799562","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=949682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/949682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/949683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=949682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=949682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=949682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}