today, the @OxfordUnion set the original version of my speech to private (see screenshot) and uploaded an edited version, one minute shorter, seemingly following zionist pressure. see their statement on the matter.
such modification of my speech and censorship is unethical and contrary to the ideals they purport to uphold. this censorship and perversion of my remarks comes after the original YouTube video had garnered hundreds of thousands of views and thousands of comments in less than one week, which was apparently was bothersome to zionists.
whereas the previous leadership of Ebrahim Osman-Mowafy withstood zionist bullying, his tenure ended in early December, when a new president took office. the usual zionist threats are working on him, it seems.
as Palestinians struggle to make our voices heard in the midst of a genocide, it is particularly egregious for the @OxfordUnion to bow to the very same forces committing that genocide.
it was bad enough to have been in the same room with genocide apologists and individuals who've actually murdered or caused the murder of people, but to find out that my speech has been edited to cater to them is intolerable.
the @OxfordUnion has not seen fit to issue statements, retractions, or other forms of censorship in the case of some truly abhorrent individuals that they've hosted in the past, such as Tony Robinson or Tzipi Hotovely.
Robinson was sent to prison for repeatedly inciting violence against refugees and Muslims, Hotovely made public calls to genocide against Palestinians. her remarks were so vile that it provoked calls for her expulsion from the UK.
and yet it was my speech that they saw fit to edit. why?
I demand the original speech be reinstated in its entirety as it was previously posted.
for the record, thanks to https://t.co/WbuiYFZfLT, the originally posted version cannot be erased from the web: https://t.co/2pKMZsgihA
The BBC really don’t cope well when their audience manipulation has been highlighted.
Mariam Barghouti pointing out some home truths.
This is how media works.
Dear @Keir_Starmer and @DavidLammy.
Just days after you both declared to Parliament that #Gaza is NOT a GEN0ClDE.... here is a list of experts who disagree with you... with receipts!
📍United Nations Special Committee, Nov 2024 Report.
(https://t.co/fz0lg46pKU)
📍Francesca Albanese, United Nations Special Rapporteur to Occupied Palestinian Territories.
(https://t.co/HcGtLFz66s)
📍Omer Bartov, Israeli Professor of Holocaust and Gen*cide Studies.
(https://t.co/JTUoditzWW)
📍Raz Segal, Israeli Associate Professor of Holocaust and Gen*cide Studies and Endowed Professor in the Study of Modern Gen*cide.
(https://t.co/2zCdby8g1S)
📍Francis Boyle, Professor of Law and first lawyer to succesfully prosecute (twice) at the ICJ under the gen*cide convention
(https://t.co/iHtjYuyF71)
📍Amos Goldberg, Professor of Holocaust History at the department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
(https://t.co/1I3zzVpyDL)
📍Victoria Sanford, Professor of Anthropology and scholar of Guatemalan gen*cide, Founding Director of the Center for Human Rights and Peace Studies.
(https://t.co/ILH89vqlqs)
📍John Cox, Associate Professor of History and Global Studies, Director at the Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies.
(https://t.co/ILH89vqlqs)
📍Barry Trachtenberg, doctorate scholar of modern Jewish history and the Nazi Holocaust.
(https://t.co/ILH89vqlqs)
📍Luis Moreno Ocampo, former chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.
(https://t.co/7PBy2vP50J)
📍Arnesa Buljusmic-Kustura, Bosnia gen*cide researcher and war survivor.
(https://t.co/MhKIeFuugJ)
📍800+ scholars and practitioners of international law and gen*cide studies who signed open letter.
(https://t.co/2VQydn3CM8)
📍Legal scholars at Cornell Law School, University of Pretoria, Yale Law School and Boston University School of Law as part of the University Network for Human Rights.
(https://t.co/M4L5Z5j0do)
41 minutes of the most graphic eye witness testimony of the Israeli attacks on Gaza which can only be described as a genocide
By British surgeon Professor Nizam Mamode speaking to the International Development Committee in Parliament on November 12th 2024
"Drones would come down and pick off civilians, children, we have description after description, this was day after day after day"
"Operating on children on who say they were laying on the ground after a bomb had dropped and this quadcopter came down, hovered over me and shot me"
"That's clearly a deliberate act. A persister act. A persistent targeting of civilians, day after day"
"A hospital like Guys & St Thomas where I used to work would get one or two mass casualty events a year, we had one or two a day"
"60% of the people we treated were women and children"
"A seven year old is not going to make up a story.. The majority of children who were casualties were young children"
"The bullets the drones fire are small cuboids.. I fished many of those out of children.. The youngest I operated on was a 3 year old"
"There is no question in my mind this was clearly deliberate targeting of civilians"
"I've worked in conflicts around the world.. I was there during the Rwandan genocide.. I've never seen anything on this scale, ever"
"One of the surgeons in my team had been to Ukraine five times and had said this is ten times worse"
"This is 1.4 million trapped, they can't leave, having bombs dropped on them on a daily basis. And then drones coming in and shooting them"
"There's plenty of evidence out there, from Israeli solders, that that's what's going on.. We saw the results of it"
Have you heard of the D-Notice committee?
You should know it.
It’s an affront to the most basic tenets of democracy and media freedom.
No self-respecting press corps would tolerate it. So, of course, establishment British journalists are part of it.
Manchester activists crashed the headquarters of https://t.co/9gsTE9f3By, to demand the company stop profiting from Israel's oppression of the Palestinians by offering properties for rent in illegal Israeli settlements.
The #HindRajabFoundation has formally requested the UK’s Metropolitan Police to investigate alleged war crimes by Alon Elgali, CEO of Meshek Afar Ltd, for destruction of civilian property in Gaza. We call for accountability under international law.
Info 👇🏾
https://t.co/cXefqc7nKI
CHAOS IN TEL AVIV 🚨🇮🇱 The situation is now exploding in Israel, with reports of a potential military coup against Netanyahu following Gallant’s dismissal. 🔥
Butcher Blinken will be remembered as nothing but a war criminal
‘Hind Rajab was 6 years-old when Israelis killed her.’
‘Blinken, you will be remembered as the butcher of Gaza.’
-A throwback to the moment protesters interrupted Blinken in Congress
https://t.co/bpCGU6xfse
LUKE AKEHURST
— did he break House of Commons rules when he accepted a donation from a foreign national?
— and did he fail to register a gift from an important pro-Israel lobbyist?
@novaramedia@BrianCathcart@BylineTimes@Mondoweiss@Tracking_Power
https://t.co/4P1eZ6OtbU?