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It's really important to remember that Remember the oldest are gone before or through the same sort of things Dispossessed by land racist attacks of people The international trauma that we were facing and your kids will face as your great kids will face as many years to come It's really important to remember that and that the struggle we've had Struggle waving the view as well in the 60s and 70s and the Palestinian community are a part of that too supporting us It's really important that we do support You just like you support us and we'll borrow medical at the west as well camera So it's really important to remember that seriously do some research and you'll see that we stood up for the idea of your struggle So it's really important we do else past present emerging and take it very much injustice Continue to celebrate the Palestinian resistance patient shame Because we know I wish a group as well. He's just returned from Palestine itself. So this is exactly what we're here to protest for Please welcome Alvin respect to their elders past present and emerging this land was never seen it need Resistance is justified when Palestine is occupied. It's justified as long as Palestine is occupied This is justified as long as Palestinians Continue to face massacres pogroms land confiscation in the West Bank Genine Nabilis Tolkarem day in and day out Resistance is justified as long as more than two millions of Palestinians in Gaza are forced to live in an open-air prison for the past 15 years In Jerusalem and the surrounding he cleansed and forced to live under the boots of the Zionist fascist Occupation day in the 75 years in a system of occupation continues to desecrate the Palestinian sacred sites al-Aqsa mosque Shame he has had the right to resist this criminal system of occupation this System of apartheid this settler colonial regime that is called the state of Israel I'm not here to cite clauses and provisions from the international law legitimating this right I'm not here to confront or debunk the bigoted argument that Hamas is committing aggression against the state of Israel I'm not here to explain that Israel implying power and the Palestinians as the indigenous people Are fighting back and struggling for liberation from decades and decades of living under the boots occupation I'm certainly not here to go on and on about condemning violence and calling for instead a peaceful resolution for the Palestinian question and what's going on on the ground right now because in their just liberation struggle The Palestinian people have every single right to use any means possible And I mean any means possible to protect themselves and fight for the right. What's happening now What's happening today has been happening for the past 75 years But the world has just woken up to such a reality because there is Israeli blood Being spelt on Palestine in Palestine now because this myth of the army that can never be conquered has been crushed by the Palestinian resistance This war is not just on Gaza this war is against Palestinians everywhere in historic Palestine in Janine in Nablus in Al-Khalia and Polkerem and everywhere in Jerusalem It is a war that is enabled by the US by all these Arab Governments who are vying to normalize with the state of Israel and it's enabled. Yes shame It's enabled by the EU and its all member states as well as this country Who are fund and support this genocidal apartheid regime? for too long for too long the world has to disrespect international law and perpetrate this savage and barbaric regime of apartheid against the Palestinians and what happened last Saturday was the natural and Inevitable so resistance is definitely justified as long as the Palestinian land is occupied and as long as this apartheid regime system is Imposed on Palestinians everywhere and a member of the students for justice in Palestine at Sydney University, please welcome Jasmine of the Israeli blockade shame I just want to make one more announcement and that is that we know that this struggle for freedom in Palestine Has been a long one and it's going to continue to be a long struggle Have shown a given hope I think to many people around the world that Israel can be defeated Back up Israel. We know the US has sent another Aircraft carrier to be close to their friend is why so they're planning to send even more weapons to Israel We need a movement in the imperialist countries this movement in a bunch of the Arab countries and Muslim countries in the Middle East Rising up against Israel and also against their own regimes that back Israel They're a prison not just because of Israel But also because of the Egyptian regime that locks up and prisons the Palestinians that they're off a crossing as well So please here coming back So please excuse me The first thing I want to say is I've been Palestinian my whole life and is that every single day you are faced with the cruel Injustice you are faced with the horrific atrocities that Israel delivers to our people. It's not a surprise It is not new. This is our reality All right, so when it was not something to me That came out as before it's not the first time this has happened But this is the first come together is because there is very little that I see in the conflict in the war in The aggression of the Zionist regime on to our people That moves me to tears, but this morning I cried and the reason I cried was because I Was so overjoyed to see the amount of support peaceful protest had been barred to us That the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle We did so not because we desired such a course But solely because the government had left us with no other choice Who do you think said that the response from the South African government apartheid South Africa's history is occupied Palestine's reality? As a result the decision by Palestinians to respond to the brutality of the settler Israeli apartheid regime is unsurprising If you want to know what to trust then the people who went through it first If there's any South Africans in the house tonight, please make some noise and thank you South Africa We suffered 75 years of dispossession. We've been denied our rights to life and liberty liberty Under an ever-worsening occupation by a colonial regime that has perpetrated every kind of atrocity upon us We have begged and we have pleaded for the world to intervene. We've organized protests We've organized boycotts. We've given the world so much. We come here and we speak truth Every single time bombs are dropping on Gaza. We speak truth. We speak truth to power and we don't shy away from it But what are we gained in return? The world has done nothing to support us nonviolent protesters in criminalized entity That we call Australia are tripping over themselves to outlaw boycott divestment in sanctions on Israel speech of Palestinians It's an ever before you tell me when 2,000 civilians were killed in Gaza in 2014 They can criticize and they can condemn. They don't get to ignore us. They don't get to silence us They don't get to refuse to show any support and solidarity and then claim to have the moral high justified For as long as Palestine is occupied It's on the part of these settlers to think that they can keep a population of two million people in Raza captive indefinitely and expect no consequences for that Ting fire to gunpowder at the gunpowder for exploding and shed tears over The settlers the terrified settlers who have sat in years past and cheered on as bombs were dropping on Raza They would set up chairs and picnics on the hills to watch the bombs dropping down on us Something that is so disgusting and foreign you've been part of this to said Colonialism is violence in its most natural state And it will only be overcome with greater violence So if you don't like it if you don't like the violence, what are we gonna do? Are we gonna have a picnic of our own up to please stop bombing us? Like we've been calling for decade if they're not gonna listen to international law If they're not gonna listen to the pleading of Palestinians every time we come to these protests then they cannot act surprised in shock not distance or the ability of the resistors until Liberation and our people will never be defeatist because Have you come here today? First people need to support the press people and Israel is a colonial apartheid genocidal state And it does not represent anything to do with being Jewish It exploited my innocence when I was younger I was a Zionist like and I lived in Israel I learned the language and then I learned and as soon as I started to learn I Went further and further and I realized the horror of this state exploiting our trauma from the Holocaust Ruthlessly exploiting us to oppress another people Deserve the same human and national rights as everybody else So to stand up in support is the very least I can do Especially after having been made complicit in their criminality when I was too young to know I joined in 2014 which was the first time I had a television after many years and I saw Israel's massacre in Gaza and I Was glued for 51 days to this horror and that was when I fully and finally separated my Jewishness from this Brutality this occupying fascist supremacist brutality So you're marching today with the I march today with the Palestinians just as I march with aboriginals for Justice in this colonial settlement, and I will always support the press papers. 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