New Delhi: The Mumbai Police has allowed the Communist Party of India (Marxist), the Communist Party of India and the All India Peace and Solidarity Organisation, to hold a peaceful protest against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.LiveLaw reports that a Bombay high court division bench of Justices Ravindra Ghuge and Gautam Ankhad have accepted the the Mumbai Police’s statement allowing the protest.The party will be allowed to protest at the Azad Maidan, one of the sites designated for demonstrations in Mumbai, on August 20.Earlier, the Mumbai police had refused to giver permission to the two Left parties and the non-profit to protest at the very same site.When the party moved the Bombay high court, challenging this, the same bench had on July 25 dismissed its petition, controversially observing that the party should look at its own country instead of focusing on issues thousands of miles away.“Our country has enough issues. We don’t want anything like this. I an sorry to say, you are all short-sighted. You are looking at issues in Gaza and Palestine. Look at your own country. Be patriots. This is not patriotism. People say they are patriots,” the court had observed.The Wire had pointed out in its report that a protest in December last year had not invited court or police refusal. In it, hundreds, including far-right groups like the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, had gathered outside the Bangladesh deputy high commission in Mumbai demanding the release of ISKCON priest Chinmoy Krishna Das, who was detained in the neighbouring country.The politburo of the party was among many who had condemned the July 25 order. “Ironically, the bench appears to be unaware of either the provisions of the Constitution which enshrines the rights of a political party, or the history of our country and our people’s solidarity with the Palestinians and their legitimate right to homeland. The observations smack of distinct political bias in line with the central government,” the CPI(M) had noted.Note: The names of CPI and AIPSO have been added as co-petitioners in an update.