Strathclyde University students hold rally for Palestine

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00:00We'll be free! Palestine! From the river to the sea! Palestine will be free! From the

00:09river to the sea! Palestine will be free! What's it got to do with you? Well, you are

00:15the new generation. You are the ones that are going to make a difference. October 7,

00:212023 was branded Israel's bloodiest day by the New York Times in an article they recently

00:28wrote about the anniversary of that day. For Israeli civilians, that story rings true.

00:35But for the Palestinians, however, the unfathomable horrors of mass death on this scale have been

00:42enacted upon them time and time again for the better half of a century. 15,000 people were

00:49killed in the Nakba of 1948. Another 18,000 Arabs died during the Six-Day War of 1968.

00:57In 2014, Operation Protective Edge, which was carried out by the IOF, killed 14,000 people.

01:08In the two years since the militant groups invaded Israel, we have witnessed the live-streamed

01:14murder of 70,000 Palestinians, 20,000 of which were children. The horrifying truth is that

01:20since its conception over a hundred years ago, the Zionist project has taken an unfathomable

01:27amount more. Us at the Strath-Palestine Solidarity Society have dedicated our time towards uncovering

01:33the complicity that our institution has in the genocide that is currently going on. For research,

01:38we have discovered millions invested in complicit companies. We have found trade partnerships

01:43and agreements between Strath-Clyde and arms companies and companies on the BDS list such

01:49as Domino's and Coca-Cola. Today, we call upon the university to put an end to its complicity.

01:56We call upon Strath-Clyde and its union to boycott. Every year, we see complicit companies like

02:03Domino's get invited onto campus for freshers' fairs. We see BAE Systems and Rolls Royce at

02:08our careers fairs. And we see Coca-Cola sold at the union and in our vending machines.

02:14As students here, we want to be proud of the institution that we've dedicated years of our

02:18lives towards attending. But as long as these companies have a presence on our campus, we

02:23cannot feel pride. It turns to shame. It turns to anger. After two long years of genocide,

02:29after 77 years of oppression, ethnic cleansing and apartheid, it's time our university commits

02:37itself to the morals it claims to uphold. So to the university management, to the management

02:42of the union and to the managers of the institutions that we are partnered with, we just have one

02:47thing to say to you. Strath-Clyde, shame on you. You have got blood on your hands too.

02:53From the sea to the river, Palestine will live forever. Free, free, Palestine, free,

03:06Palestine, free, free, Palestine, free, free, Palestine.

03:12Woo!