"There're everyday human experiences that give weight & substance to the cert you're about to receive. Every sacrifice, every bit of energy you drag out of you even if all you managed to do was scratch the bare minimum, you're here today."
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“She was known as Palestine. She forevermore will be known as Palestine.”
Benedict Cumberbatch recited this poem by iconic Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish.
“You can’t bomb the truth away”
My full speech at Wembley Arena tonight, in London, to 12,000 people at the Together for Palestine concert, paying tribute to murdered Palestinian journalists and their bravery, and calling out the silence and complicity of Western media.
🇮🇱: Steals land for 80 years
🇮🇱: Builds settlements, bulldozes homes
🇮🇱: Treats Palestinians like subhumans
🇵🇸: Resists
🇮🇱: “Terrorism! We have the right to defend ourselves.”
🇮🇱: Flattens Gaza, kills 20,000 children
🇮🇱: Bombs Lebanon “preemptively”
🇮🇱: Illegally annexes part of Syria
🇮🇱: Bombs Iran, kills civilians
🇮🇷: Responds
🇺🇸: “Israel has the right to defend itself.”
🇮🇱: “We are under attack!”
🇪🇺: “We strongly condemn Iran.”
“Once you learn the real history you can’t unlearn it. Once you get past the media and the White House focusing solely on October 7th, once you begin to look at October 6th, 5th, 4th and the 75 years before of oppression and displacement that’s when the truth opens up.”
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