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March for Palestine in Portsmouth on Sunday 21st January 2024
The News, Portsmouth
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22/01/2024
March for Palestine in Portsmouth on Sunday 21st January 2024
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Well, we're here to try to show our solidarity in a small way
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with the people in Palestine, and particularly in Gaza
00:21
at the moment.
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I guess there's a huge lack of action from our government
00:31
and from the international community.
00:33
And I think one of the small things we can do
00:37
is to keep showing up every week, every other week,
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to try to let people in Portsmouth
00:44
know about what's going on.
00:46
And to hopefully, the pictures of what
00:50
goes on around the world gets back to people in Palestine.
00:52
And it gives them some hope, at least, that--
00:55
They know they're not alone.
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That they're not alone, yeah.
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I'd start with I'm not here to show solidarity in the sense
01:02
because I'm of Palestinian origin myself.
01:05
And I've lived through a few of Israel's wars
01:08
when living in Lebanon.
01:10
Part of you is the way you understand
01:11
the world at that moment.
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You realize that there is somebody in an airplane who
01:17
is willing to bomb a shell on a place that has kids.
01:20
Puts you politically in a certain place
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where you do not accept the concept,
01:25
regardless of whether you're Palestinian, Israeli,
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or whatever, that you don't accept
01:29
the principle of this kind of decision
01:35
to bomb a place where there are kids, where you know you would
01:39
be harming kids, and you don't care about it.
01:41
Palestine is free!
01:42
Palestine!
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How can we not try to escape?
01:46
Palestine will be free!
01:48
Yes, I'm George.
01:49
I'm 30.
01:51
I'm actually from Chichester, not from Portsmouth.
01:53
But I've joined this march today to call
01:55
for an immediate ceasefire.
01:57
What we're seeing in Palestine is absolutely horrific,
02:01
and it has to stop immediately.
02:02
So what we're saying is we can't wait for the Americans.
02:05
We can't wait for the Labour Party.
02:06
We can't wait for the Tories.
02:07
We have to call for a ceasefire immediately.
02:09
And every other week, people are marching in London
02:12
in their hundreds of thousands.
02:13
But it's really important in between those two weeks
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that people come out in their numbers in their local areas.
02:19
So yesterday, we saw 10,000 people in Birmingham,
02:22
3,000 people in Bristol, and we've got a couple of hundred
02:25
here today.
02:26
So it's really important that we show up in our local areas
02:28
to put pressure on our MPs, put pressure on the institutions
02:32
that we stopped outside today.
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So we stopped outside Barclays Bank,
02:35
who are directly funding the IDF and arming them,
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and outside Starbucks, just outside the Guildhall here,
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who are also funding the IDF.
02:43
And we'd encourage anyone to get involved with our marches
02:46
and look us up on social media, Portsmouth PSC,
02:50
or go to Palestine Solidarity Campaign website.
02:52
What would I say to people on the fence?
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What are you doing on the fence?
02:55
This is very clearly a genocide.
02:56
We don't need to wait for the International Court of Justice
03:01
to call this a genocide.
03:02
It's very clear.
03:03
Multiple charities have come out and said,
03:05
this is very clearly a genocide.
03:06
The UN has said that this is an apartheid regime in Israel.
03:10
They are occupying Gaza.
03:12
There are illegal settlements in the West Bank.
03:15
This is very clear what is going on.
03:17
We need to stop waiting for our institutions, our media,
03:19
and our politicians to point out what everyone knows
03:22
and what the people in Palestine know.
03:24
And if you're on the fence, what I say is,
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get off the fence and get on the side of Palestine.
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