Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Rival protesters clash in Glasgow amid migration tensions (Video)

The demonstrations took place in Scotland following a stabbing attack allegedly involving a Sudanese asylum seeker.

Anti-immigration and anti-racism protesters scuffled with police during rival demonstrations in Glasgow, Scotland, amid tensions fueled by a stabbing attack allegedly involving a Sudanese asylum seeker.

On Saturday, the NGO Stand Up to Racism held a rally in downtown Glasgow, with organizers calling on supporters to “reclaim the streets from the far right.” Participants carried Scottish and Palestinian flags and chanted, “Refugees are welcome here,” according to The Herald.

Around 70 counterprotesters arrived at the event, many dressed in black and wearing balaclavas.



As police sought to keep the rival groups apart, some anti-immigration demonstrators pushed against barriers and shoved officers. Some of their opponents also pushed police while attempting to break through the separation line.

Police Scotland said one man was arrested for threatening an officer, while another officer was struck by an egg thrown during the unrest.

“A number of reported hate crimes will now be investigated,” a police spokesperson said.

An anti-racism demonstration also took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, to denounce the riots that followed a stabbing on Monday. A Sudanese asylum seeker has been charged with attacking a man in the street and allegedly blinding him in one eye.

Another high-profile incident occurred on Friday in Brierfield, northwest England, where a man stabbed a 17-year-old girl in the middle of a street, causing non-life-threatening injuries. Police described the suspect as a British man of Pakistani descent.

The recent attacks have reignited debates about migration and what right-wing politicians and activists describe as “two-tier” policing. They argue that the incidents highlight the government’s inability to adequately address crimes committed by foreigners and other non-white offenders.

Prominent anti-immigration activist Tommy Robinson said he was detained for several hours at Heathrow Airport on Saturday under anti-terrorism legislation and had his phone seized by police.

According to Sky News, Robinson is scheduled to take part in a debate at the Oxford Union next week on whether the West is “right to be suspicious of Islam.”

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14 COMMENTS

  1. “Counter protestors” = government employees.

    Laundering their wages through an “NGO” doesn’t make it less obvious anymore guys, sorry.

  2. NUMBER 1. The Anti Racist are brought to you by a NGO!
    NUMBER 2. Anti Racist are paid agitators, nobody normal would support scum who want to saw your head off.
    Number 3. Neo-nazis carrying Israeli flags is the biggest contradiction I have ever heard whatever the way you judge Israel.
    NUMBER 4. An anti-racism demonstration also took place in Belfast, Northern Ireland, SO IT TOOK A WEEK FOR THE GOVERNMENT’S NUDGE UNIT TO COME UP WITH THIS? PATHETIC.

  3. Daily Telegraph, this is poor judgement to use this propaganda in what is usually a good place to find information.

    • Anon, do NOT diss DTNZ.
      If your brain cannot deal with contradictions, rational discourse and comments/articles that are hard for you to digest or hurt your pu**y feelings, go back to Stiff or the Herald.

    • It’s not propaganda. It’s good reporting on how the government creates divisions in society in order to distract the masses from the real issues and to maintain their grip on power. The left vs the right paradigm is the calling card of fake democracies who have constructed the concept and use it repeatedly to divide et imperia.
      Protests and counter-protests take the attention away from the real issue. Or maybe all the counter-protestors think the Sudanese knifeman is a nice guy worth supporting.

  4. These c**** show up after the unrest stops but we didnt see them there during the unrest and the day they do they will get their arses handed to them.

  5. So called counter protester’s little more than bussed in, imported government stooges, trying to craft a fake narrative, that anyone local actually supports this murderous madness. I see too, the copper stooges in on it, talking about “hate crimes”, once again.

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