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00:25:37is the underdog and that could be a country it could be an idea it could be an individual

00:25:44but something where the odds are against them for eight years now three resolutions have passed

00:25:50within the student body government here at psu of basically the one sentence cut ties with boeing

00:25:56have been passed largely by people we elect to represent us in student body government the

00:26:01students i think of a very clear position and that they don't want the university that they

00:26:08pay tuition for to uphold these values of being complicit with genocide there's so much gear that

00:26:15gets made like like the weapons guidance systems patchy chinook helicopters f-15s so much shared

00:26:22like parts and engineering that goes into the development of all of that it gets a bit messy

00:26:27as far as like what technologies are specific to just commercial air travel and then what's

00:26:32specific to you know weaponry and you know it's it's all appropriated for whatever markets it can serve

00:26:39i'm sorry again

00:26:45oh my god yes yes yes i need to go down we're we're going to we're going to direct the

00:26:53camera now towards

00:26:54towards the explosions

00:26:56i was born in michigan both my parents are palestinian on my mother's side she was born in the u

00:27:10.s

00:27:11her family's from ramallah there's a time where we were like the only palestinian family in town

00:27:21my earliest memory is like as a kid going to play with other kids we just moved to a new

00:27:26house and

00:27:26another kid said go home and use the n-word that experience of like kind of like small town

00:27:34u.s racism really kind of stuck with me as i grew older and older it was like the more

00:27:41i was able to get perspective of where that was coming from and it really kind of emboldened

00:27:48owning my palestinian identity my father said he was born in jerusalem and he was seven years old

00:27:56when he faced the nakba he was the youngest of eight children and bullets hailing at the house

00:28:04they thought we just need to get out of jerusalem for a bit and come back and there's no time

00:28:09to grab

00:28:10family pictures or anything of value at that time there were roving gangs that were coming through

00:28:17predominantly in places like jerusalem to ask people to leave their homes you know forever and so they

00:28:24went to beer's eight and thought they'd stay there temporarily with other family and that turned into a

00:28:32permanent move eight hundred thousand palestinians were driven into flight from their homes beyond

00:28:38the borders of palestine and they've never been allowed to return just by fact of being jewish born

00:28:45in new york of a jewish parent they're entitled to go to israel or palestine as i call it become

00:28:53israeli

00:28:54citizens at any time that they wish i was born there my father was born there my grandfather great

00:28:58grand et cetera the overall feeling that i have is one when i think about it you know for any

00:29:02length

00:29:03of time is is one of of you know astonishment that at the sort of injustice of it

00:29:23uh... madam president distinguished members of the court it's a case that underscores the very essence

00:29:32of our shared humanity. South Africa contends that Israel has transgressed Article 2 of the

00:29:42Convention by committing actions that fall within the definition of genocide. For the past 96 days,

00:29:52Israel has subjected Gaza to what has been described as one of the heaviest conventional

00:29:58bombing campaigns in the history of modern warfare. Having a complex history of genocides

00:30:08is important and one that's global, that's actually trying to take into account the different

00:30:13ways that genocide happens, right? The point is that a genocide is not defined by the number of

00:30:20people killed. It's defined by the targeted structure and aim of the violence. So when

00:30:29you attack a population for being of a particular race or ethnicity, when you attack the infrastructures

00:30:37of the life, this is a key element of the definition of genocide that is internationally accepted.

00:30:46For some years, it was hard to establish genocide studies as a field because there are some people

00:30:53who believe there's only one genocide and that that genocide happened in the Second World War and

00:30:59that it was directed against the Jews. Now, when Netanyahu says, well, we can't be committing a

00:31:06genocide because we were victims of a genocide, what precisely is he saying? He's saying we were

00:31:13victims of a genocide, the Jews, true, absolutely true, and we need to hold on to that story,

00:31:20we need to teach it. But does that mean that we are always now victims and that we could never

00:31:25be

00:31:26agents or perpetrators of a genocide? It's really important that we see that people who have suffered

00:31:33immense oppression can also inflict immense oppression. I think that there's a really strong

00:31:39understanding that there's not an option to do nothing when faced with catastrophe.

00:31:45And mass civil disobedience actions and really speaking out, breaking the apparent institutional

00:31:52consensus among Jews nationally that somehow we all support bombing children as a way to peace.

00:32:03Can you take a look at the document that's in front of you there titled Petition to Plead No Contest?

00:32:08Have you had a chance to review this document prior to today? I have.

00:32:12A plea no contest makes a lot of sense in this case. As, you know, what folks did was a

00:32:19form of

00:32:20civil disobedience where there may be a law that says that you cannot block a road in front of the

00:32:24courthouse. There is a law that says that, but I think that folks' conscience would say that their

00:32:31acts that day shouldn't be held criminal. It's unfortunate that they want to spend these resources

00:32:36prosecuting people sounding the alarm on this genocide and alerting the community and calling

00:32:42attention to this rather than thinking about divesting from their investments in Israel and stopping

00:32:48supporting this and challenging our local officials to speak out.

00:32:53We would get a lot more coverage if we were damaging property, if we were being violent,

00:33:00but we are peacefully protesting and that doesn't make good news.

00:33:06Right now, pro-Palestinian protesters occupying Portland State University's library breaking into

00:33:12the campus building overnight. You're watching Queen 6 News this morning. I'm Emily Burris.

00:33:16And I'm Travis Tyke. Late last night, Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt announced there will

00:33:21be prosecutions as a result of this latest incident on Portland State University's campus.

00:33:26PSU has requested now the assistance of Portland Police Bureau to remove the trespassers from the

00:33:32library. I ask, I implore any students who are involved who are in the library right now

00:33:38to please leave the library peacefully.

00:33:42Lock the bricks! Lock the bricks!

00:33:56Students have continued to demand. Students have tried to meet with administrations. We've had teach-ins

00:34:01and rallies. What we saw was because of the administration's lack of good faith engagement with us.

00:34:10We're Palestinian Americans, right? So, like, we're actively being affected by what's going on in Gaza or, like, the West

00:34:17Bank.

00:34:17I think the school didn't ever consider the fact that, like, there are actual people that attend your university that

00:34:25are genuinely, and I mean, really being affected by what's going on.

00:34:29They've lost land, family members, approaching me as if I'm deserving to be collectively punished as part of this idea

00:34:38that, like, we don't care about Arab suffering.

00:34:55I am assuming that some of the slogans that you won't say include, from the river to the sea, Palestine

00:35:03will be free, and globalize the Intifada.

00:35:10And Palestinians on this campus, and elsewhere, but on this campus, have explained to you, have told you, have said

00:35:19in all kinds of ways that that statement is a call for Palestinian liberation and Palestinian dignity,

00:35:27not an invocation for harm to come to Jewish people.

00:35:32So, my question to you is, why don't you believe us, and why do you keep insisting that Palestinians are

00:35:40not reliable narrators of our history, of our slogans, of our liberation movement?

00:35:47Hi, everybody. I'm Ami Thurber from the School of Social Work.

00:35:50I want to weigh into this conversation about deferring to the victims as a Jewish faculty member.

00:35:56I hear from the river to the sea as a call for collective liberation, as a lamentation for the collective

00:36:03injury caused by relationships of inequality, as a hymn, a prayer, a promise for a future Palestine and Israel that

00:36:10we have not yet seen, but could still come to be.

00:36:14And I'm not suggesting that anybody else should hear it in that way, but I think it's important to share

00:36:19my perspective as a Jewish person, part of a long legacy that interprets this not as a threat, but as

00:36:26a righteous call for liberation for all of us.

00:36:30And so I'm not actually convinced here that what we're worried about is anti-Semitism.

00:36:35It seems like Jewish people and Jewish people's trauma are being used as pawns in a national political theater meant

00:36:42to delegitimize higher ed.

00:36:44University presidents are getting hauled before conservative congressional hearings and accused of anti-Semitism by people with ties to white

00:36:50supremacist groups.

00:36:52They're more than just chants. They're like chants that somebody made because it was to save someone's life or to

00:36:58save our homeland.

00:36:59And it's from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free. It's so one day we can all go

00:37:04home.

00:37:05These are real words. These are real words that we want to speak into life.

00:37:09We don't just yell it to yell it, right? It's to actually exist and to one day be a mantra,

00:37:17an affirmation, and a manifestation into reality.

00:37:20So say that with your full heart and your full voice and your full chest.

00:37:25Okay? From the river to the sea.

00:37:28From the river to the sea.

00:37:30Palestine will be free.

00:37:32What we see with the attempt to lay claim to the meaning of phrases like from the river to the

00:37:37sea or intifada and so forth,

00:37:40it's an attempt to say, we will put words in your mouth.

00:37:44You do not have the right to speak. You do not have the right to represent yourself.

00:37:47From the river to the sea.

00:37:49That's actually a slogan that was used by Netanyahu and by the conservative parties in the state of Israel.

00:37:57What they wanted and what some of them still very much want is a single state, a Jewish state,

00:38:04that runs from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

00:38:09The genocide underway in Gaza is a result of decades of impunity and inaction.

00:38:17Ending Israel's impunity is a moral, political, and legal imperative.

00:38:23In 1967, Israel then occupied the remainder of Palestine.

00:38:30And from the first day of its occupation, started colonizing and annexing the land with the aim of making its

00:38:38occupation irreversible.

00:38:41It left us with a collection of disconnected pantostans, preventing the independence of our state, as shown in Map 4.

00:39:12There was a story of freedom and of reprieve from Exodus that certainly I grew up with.

00:39:20Zionism is a freedom project.

00:39:22We're going to work the land.

00:39:23We're going to live together in the Kibbutzim.

00:39:25We're going to be socialists.

00:39:26We're going to share.

00:39:27It seemed very compelling.

00:39:29And I remember as a kid in 1967, the first time, being brought to Israel and expecting a sort of

00:39:37utopian thing.

00:39:39And I was only 11 at the time.

00:39:42But I remember seeing the racial stratification.

00:39:44That was the first thing I saw.

00:39:46Now, I wasn't allowed to go to Gaza at the time, even though I could have gone, right?

00:39:50My mother did go, and she was a civil rights activist.

00:39:55And I remember in 67, she came back from her visit to Gaza, and she said, oh, it's never going

00:40:01to work.

00:40:02You can't keep people subdued like that.

00:40:04We know that from the civil rights movement.

00:40:07You know, you need desegregation.

00:40:08You need to live together.

00:40:10People need to live in the same way.

00:40:12You know, she was very upset.

00:40:13But then she put it out of her mind.

00:40:14So she saw it, and then she looked away.

00:40:17But there was a brief moment where she spoke to it, and I listened.

00:40:23So the Nakba is a continuing process that began in 1948 and has continued ever since.

00:40:29And the only thing that changes is the scale, the rapidity, the intensity.

00:40:34The dispossession of Palestinians in 1948 meant that a huge refugee class was being formed through the grounding of the

00:40:43state of Israel.

00:40:44So if the right of sanctuary that the Zionists of the 1940s invoked is based on the principle that there

00:40:55should be no refugees, that refugees deserve sanctuary, they deserve home and rights and belonging,

00:41:00then the implementation of that policy, which produced a new class of refugees, goes against the very principle that the

00:41:14Zionists were invoking.

00:41:31JVP is an important voice calling for a very sharp distinction between anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.

00:41:42There is a really serious difference between the resentment and hostility that one feels towards their occupier as a colonized

00:41:53people

00:41:53and the hatred of a category of people as subhuman who need to be ethnically cleansed from a national project.

00:42:01What is war? What is war?

00:42:04No, that's it!

00:42:06No, that's it!

00:42:07So, like, I think about my mother, who is the daughter of Holocaust survivors, and her fear and anxiety around

00:42:17anything German.

00:42:18The people she knew of in uniforms who victimized her family happened to have German accents.

00:42:25It makes her have resentment and hesitation associated with that.

00:42:31Like, I was talking to a Palestinian comrade who was like,

00:42:34yeah, the only Jewish people my family have ever met are in uniform with the Star of David holding a

00:42:42gun.

00:42:49I grew up to a degree in a liberal Zionist household.

00:42:54And there's a basic Zionist belief among liberal Zionists that there needs to be an ethno-nationalist project,

00:43:02a Jewish nation state that is a Jewish homeland for Jews to be safe.

00:43:08And within that, there is a presumption that Jews in diaspora are not safe,

00:43:12and that there's no obligation for states to protect Jews living within their borders outside of Israel.

00:43:17And I think that's a terrifying notion.

00:43:20And absolutely, those are the conditions that led to the Holocaust.

00:43:24Folks, were there no Israel, there wouldn't be a Jew in the world that was safe.

00:43:29Were there no Israel?

00:43:37I think that people buy into that notion that the state of Israel is what saves the Jewish people from

00:43:42destruction.

00:43:43Beneath the bad reasoning of that argument is the ideological conviction that without the Jewish state,

00:43:53the Jewish people will be destroyed.

00:43:55But I would say that as Israel holds itself aloof from all international law

00:44:05and participates in a military action that increasing number of legal scholars call genocide all.

00:44:13It is jeopardizing the Jews. It is not saving the Jews.

00:44:16The only thing that is going to make the world safe for Jews is the equality for Palestinians,

00:44:23equal freedom, equal access, equal rights, equal political participation,

00:44:27and decolonization, quite frankly, because none of those liberal principles make any sense outside of decolonization.

00:44:35The kind of major touchstone for me is Jewish summer camp in middle school,

00:44:40because I really was interested in my Judaism growing up in a way that my mother was not very supportive

00:44:48of.

00:44:48She was atheist and not really interested in being a part of Jewish institutions.

00:44:54I happened to be friends with like the other three Portland Jewish kids in my grade,

00:44:58and they were all going to summer camp every summer.

00:45:02So we had these days where we went to different stations that depicted the life cycle of a Jewish person,

00:45:08and one of the stations was go to Israel.

00:45:12And then there was this night called Escape to Israel Night,

00:45:16and it was a full-scale scenario in which the camp was transformed into a kind of Nazi gauntlet.

00:45:26The counselors pretended to be German guards,

00:45:30and all the campers were fleeing Jews trying to get to safety in Israel.

00:45:36Israel was at the lake, and you had to go through the lodge, show your papers, get screamed at,

00:45:44get onto a bus, hide under the seat when the guard comes on.

00:45:48If you got caught and arrested, you had to go do push-ups in a cabin while a counselor screamed

00:45:53at you,

00:45:54and the counselors, they were terrifying.

00:45:59This is where I really have started to understand the way in which re-traumatization around the Holocaust

00:46:05has been used really systematically within Jewish life from the left to the right

00:46:11to recruit us all into supporting unhinged militarism.

00:46:18And then once I learned that the United States provides 70% of Israel's military funding,

00:46:23the notion that that was actually a political proxy in the Middle East for United States interests

00:46:30was not hard for me to believe.

00:46:32If we look at the Middle East, I think it's about time we stop those of us who support,

00:46:40as most of us do, Israel and this body, for apologizing for our support for Israel.

00:46:46There's no apology to be made. None.

00:46:49It is the best $3 billion investment we make.

00:46:54Were there not an Israel, the United States of America would have to invent an Israel

00:46:58to protect her interest in the region?

00:47:01The level of Israel's killing is so extensive that nowhere is safe in Gaza.

00:47:09Palestinians in Gaza are subjected to relentless bombing wherever they go.

00:47:14They are killed in their homes, in places where they seek shelter, in hospitals, in schools, in mosques, in churches,

00:47:27and as they try to find food and water for their families.

00:47:35What began in New York at Columbia is incredibly inspiring, you know, to see.

00:47:45I mean, one, like there's like this irony of that's where, you know, Edward Said spent most of his career.

00:47:51He inspired like a whole generation of Palestinians towards academia,

00:47:57whereas all you saw in like the nightly news at that time was a dehumanization of Palestinians

00:48:04and a complete erasure of Palestinian history, of where it all got to this.

00:48:12The police would come and beat up students.

00:48:16That happened at Columbia, that happened at Berkeley, happened at the University of Wisconsin,

00:48:22happened at a disproportionate amount of violence on some of the historically black colleges and universities as well.

00:48:31Columbia loves to talk about 68, they love to talk about 85,

00:48:35and they neglect to mention that just in those times as they are now,

00:48:41the administration disciplined students, they harassed students,

00:48:47they did nothing to protect the students who were protesting.

00:48:51Columbia has a long legacy of student activism, of student protest,

00:48:55and just as long a history of student repression and student discipline.

00:49:00To see as the administration building of Hamilton, deoccupied it to call it Hind's Hall.

00:49:06Hind was a six-year-old girl in Guzda who was murdered by the IOF as she hid alone in

00:49:11a car,

00:49:11along with the paramedics that tried to rescue her.

00:49:16Barnard is a very progressive school in a lot of ways.

00:49:19It's one of the reasons why I came here.

00:49:21Yet, at the same time, there has been a lot of repression at Barnard around this question of Palestine.

00:49:29Controlling, surveilling, and policing students and faculty in a way that I have not seen even at Columbia.

00:49:35New rules at Barnard College dorms.

00:49:37Starting tomorrow, students can't hang signs or posters on dorm room doors about the crackdown.

00:49:43An email to students notes that some fixtures on doors serve as helpful communication, but, quote,

00:49:48We are also aware that some may have the unintended effect of isolating those who have different views and beliefs.

00:49:56I'm from South Africa.

00:49:58I went off to college in 1985, and I joined the Free South Africa Coordinating Committee.

00:50:03And I was involved in anti-apartheid work and then anti-racist work during my entire undergraduate career.

00:50:12The question of racism in South Africa and racism in the United States were interconnected.

00:50:18One example of that was U.S. support for the apartheid regime in South Africa.

00:50:24And so we had a campaign around divestment.

00:50:26We demanded that the university give Nelson Mandela an honorary degree,

00:50:30which they refused to do because they said he was a terrorist.

00:50:34What's interesting is that so many of our universities pride themselves on the role they played

00:50:39in bringing about the downfall of apartheid in South Africa.

00:50:41Here in the U.S., politicians didn't want to see transformation.

00:50:45Corporations, which made a lot of money from South Africa, didn't want to.

00:50:48So they were dragged kicking and screaming to divestment by ordinary citizens.

00:50:54The student protests were the biggest the nation had seen since the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s,

00:50:59and succeeded in pulling hundreds of millions of dollars out of corporations doing business in South Africa.

00:51:07That was the day that we started a bus protest which literally electrified the nation.

00:51:18Going back to Selma, Alabama, that is the power of a boycott campaign,

00:51:22is that ordinary people can actually bring about effective political change.

00:51:28I didn't fully understand apartheid in Israel until I went there in 2011.

00:51:35Even though I had read about Israel and Palestine and I had kind of an academic understanding,

00:51:42I was shocked by what I saw.

00:51:45And seeing the gates that Palestinians had to wait at for hours in order to get to their places of

00:51:53work,

00:51:53understanding that there were separate roads for Palestinians and for Israeli Jews,

00:52:00understanding how people's land had been taken from them,

00:52:04and talking to families whose children had been taken at night and were in detention,

00:52:09and they knew nothing about them.

00:52:12And the world where runnin' the manufacturers?

00:52:17The whole house was also booked.

00:52:19The next thing about theertime Indian,

00:52:29the second place of the restaurant was apartment.

00:52:32The first place of the restaurant

00:52:42The attempts to assault and intimidate the students, especially at night, like things would get bad after work, so around

00:52:485, 6 p.m., that's when it would heat up and go through the night.

00:52:51The campus police did nothing to protect its own students. Of course, that culminated in the last night of April,

00:52:56when there was a Zionist mob, basically, that came from off campus and attacked the encampment. And by attacked, I

00:53:03mean attacked with 2x4 planks with nails embedded in them, gas canisters and pepper spray and all kinds of things.

00:53:12And the university did nothing to protect the students, nothing at all. It just watched this unfold.

00:53:18And then the next night, the university called the police, including the riot police, to attack their own students.

00:53:23The counterpart to UCLA involved an alliance of mostly Zionist thugs from off campus coming to campus to attack our

00:53:31students and faculty.

00:53:32But they were working with proud boys. Now there's a kind of alliance between the right wing and Zionist lobbyists

00:53:41and politicians, because the big Zionist institutions want the repression of the academy for the reasons we've already talked about,

00:53:48which is that a space of academic freedom is a space that allows the criticism of Israeli policy or Zionist

00:53:54ideology.

00:53:55And they want to get rid of that. They want to suppress it and put the genie of knowledge back

00:53:59into the bottle and so forth.

00:54:00The Zionist movement in the United States has actually been complex for a long time.

00:54:06And right wing Christian Zionism is something that made itself publicly known during the Trump presidency, when some of its

00:54:17proponents insisted that Israel had the right idea, that it was a place for the Jewish people and that the

00:54:24Palestinians should not be part of it.

00:54:27Behold, he that keepeth Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.

00:54:31That word keepeth is a military term, meaning to defend.

00:54:36He who defends Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps.

00:54:40There's an all seeing eye constantly watching Israel and it's God almighty.

00:54:51Are you familiar with Genesis 12, 3?

00:54:56Probably not as well as you are a congressman.

00:54:59Well, it's pretty clear.

00:55:00It was a covenant that God made with Abraham.

00:55:07And that covenant was real clear.

00:55:10If you bless Israel, I will bless you.

00:55:13If you curse Israel, I will curse you.

00:55:16And then in the New Testament, it was confirmed that all nations would be blessed through you.

00:55:25So, you do not know about that.

00:55:29I have heard that now that you've explained it.

00:55:32Yes, I have heard that before.

00:55:33It's now familiar.

00:55:34Do you consider that a serious issue?

00:55:36I mean, do you want Columbia University to be cursed by God of the Bible?

00:55:43Definitely not.

00:55:45Okay.

00:55:45Well, that's good.

00:55:47So that kind of Christian Zionism, maybe it was appalling to some liberal Jewish Zionists.

00:55:54But the fact is that liberal Jewish Zionists have, for the most part, supported the donation of military killing machines

00:56:04to the state of Israel.

00:56:07Members of Congress, I now have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you,

00:56:12His Excellency Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel.

00:56:18Some of these protesters hold up signs proclaiming gays for Gaza.

00:56:24They might as well hold up signs saying chickens for KFC.

00:56:34These protesters chant from the river to the sea.

00:56:38But many don't have a clue what river and what sea they're talking about.

00:56:45They not only get an F in geography, they get an F in history.

00:56:50They call Israel, they call Israel a colonialist state.

00:56:56Don't they know that the land of Israel is where Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob prayed,

00:57:01where Isaiah and Jeremiah preached, and where David and Solomon ruled?

00:57:07So he's doing two things, referencing the record on gay and lesbian human rights,

00:57:13to deflect from the horrific human rights violations that are committed against Palestinians.

00:57:20And also, I would add, against people of color within Israel.

00:57:24But he's making an emotional appeal, saying,

00:57:27don't these students know that this is the place of Abraham, Solomon, etc.

00:57:33And when I met with gay and lesbian groups in Ramallah,

00:57:37what they said to me was,

00:57:40you know, we're oppressed from different directions.

00:57:42There's homophobia here, but there's also anti-Palestinian racism

00:57:47and structural oppression that we live under.

00:57:50And we can't really disarticulate the one from the other.

00:57:54So to be pro-queer is to be anti-Zionist, and they go together,

00:57:58because we're not going to just oppose one oppression without opposing them all.

00:58:03Commencement ceremonies are taking place this weekend

00:58:05after days of demonstrations and encampments on college campuses.

00:58:09As Christiane Benavides reports,

00:58:11some of these graduations are being interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters.

00:58:15Demonstrations continued across the country, from UT Austin in Texas

00:58:19to DePaul University in Chicago,

00:58:21where police responded after tense moments

00:58:24between pro-Palestine and pro-Israeli protesters.

00:58:28Cease fire now! Cease fire now!

00:58:36Commencement, for me, was a moment to honor my fellow Gazan students

00:58:42that have been killed by Israel, and that was the only option, quite frankly,

00:58:48when the president spoke to stand up and turn around,

00:58:51because all I saw was the face of the university that had told me

00:58:55my life doesn't matter, and Palestinians' lives don't matter,

00:58:57and students at the university don't matter.

00:58:59So I will turn my back to that.

00:59:02Most of the students, just like you, from the Students' Union are arrested now.

00:59:08They are in the prison, and they go back and forth, back and forth,

00:59:12to the jails, Israeli jails, of course.

00:59:19It's so hard.

00:59:23In Janine, Israeli forces have surrounded the city, blocking exit and entry points

00:59:29and access to hospitals and ripping up infrastructure in the Janine refugee camp.

00:59:33Janine's been the target of frequent raids by Israeli forces,

00:59:37but this latest military operation is the largest since the Second Antifada

00:59:42two decades ago when Janine witnessed some of the worst violence of that period.

01:00:04It's so hard.

01:00:06Oh, my God.

01:00:08This is the middle of Jumin city.

01:00:14This is what the Israeli army left,

01:00:16after ten days of attacking the cities with tanks,

01:00:20with drones, with thousands of soldiers.

01:00:26So this used to be a very active place.

01:00:30A lot of people used to work here.

01:00:32Now they are jobless.

01:00:36They destroyed everything, as you see.

01:00:46This is the center of the city.

01:00:50Look at the water.

01:00:52They cut the water, of course.

01:00:53No electricity, nothing.

01:00:58This is a kind of collective punishment for people.

01:01:08It's very horrible.

01:01:10So friends, brothers, sisters, students, professors,

01:01:15spread the word in the United States.

01:01:17People here, they are struggling a lot.

01:01:21Every single tribunal, from Nuremberg to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Cambodia,

01:01:28every prosecution at the ICC was meant to atone for our moral failures,

01:01:35to protect us from ourselves.

01:01:37And today, we fail to stop.

01:01:40Today, we fail to stop the skies from crashing down,

01:01:44in white phosphorus flames,

01:01:47onto Palestinian dreams,

01:01:49memories,

01:01:50potential,

01:01:51onto Palestinian babies,

01:01:54not old enough to beseech you,

01:01:56to have mercy upon them.

01:02:00We are here now with them,

01:02:02and for them,

01:02:03to demand a ceasefire.

01:02:05We are here because Palestine reveals the naked hypocrisy of Western Universalism.

01:02:12It reveals our enduring colonial reality,

01:02:16and it offers a glimpse into a future without colonialism.

01:02:21By 11 votes to 4,

01:02:25is of the opinion that the State of Israel's continued presence in the occupied territory is unlawful.

01:02:33In favour,

01:02:34President Salaam,

01:02:36Judges Yusuf,

01:02:37Shwe,

01:02:39Bandari,

01:02:40Iwasawa,

01:02:42Nolte,

01:02:43Charlesworth,

01:02:44Brandt,

01:02:45Gomez Robledo,

01:02:47Cleveland,

01:02:48Tladi.

01:02:49Against,

01:02:50Vice President Siputinde,

01:02:52Judges,

01:02:53Damka,

01:02:54Ibrahim,

01:02:55Greske.

01:03:03The first order was, basically,

01:03:05don't violate the genocide convention.

01:03:07That's what they said, effectively.

01:03:08One might look at that and say,

01:03:10well, international law doesn't matter because Israel is just ignoring it,

01:03:13and Israel's patron saint, the United States, also ignores it on Israel's behalf.

01:03:17And, you know, even if the Israelis flout those things,

01:03:20they register in the minds of ordinary people.

01:03:23And that's super important because the main way that Palestinians and their allies in the United States and around the

01:03:29world are pushing these days to hold Israel accountable is through the BDS campaign.

01:03:33Boycotts, divestments, and sanctions modeled on the 1980s anti-apartheid campaign in the case of South Africa.

01:04:02It is a, a polemical, ideological decision.

01:04:08It is a, a polemical, ideological decision.

01:04:08That makes them a mockery out of the whole idea of what a protected class should be.

01:04:15Well, those of us who are part of Palestinian activism or support Palestinian freedoms are constantly saying,

01:04:21State of Israel is not the same as the Jewish people.

01:04:23They would have you believe it's the same as the Jewish people, but it's not.

01:04:26It's not the Jewish people.

01:04:28It's this state formation.

01:04:29And as Jews, we could call for a different one.

01:04:33Nobey Israel initiates and markets prestigious projects throughout Israel.

01:04:37In the heart of Jerusalem.

01:04:41In the neighborhood of Bayez Bagan.

01:04:43At the intersection of Tiltan, David Meretz, and Salman Tzapi streets.

01:04:47A new residential project is taking shape.

01:04:50Jerusalem View.

01:04:51One reason why Palestinians have returned to this vision of one democratic state or a democratic and secular state is

01:04:58there's no other option at this point.

01:05:08You look at the reality on the ground.

01:05:10There is only one state.

01:05:11There aren't ten states.

01:05:12There's one state in historical Palestine from the river to the sea.

01:05:16And it's an apartheid state.

01:05:17And it rules it over roughly equal populations of Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs.

01:05:23And it rules them with distinct inequality because one population has rights and the other one doesn't.

01:05:29We don't know what's going to exactly happen next for the Palestinian movement, especially within the United States.

01:05:35Even though we might not see change happen in a linear moment, because it never does, we are going to

01:05:41see that reverberate for generations to come.

01:05:44Can there be truth and reconciliation?

01:05:47Can people who once had this awful historical experience, can they find a way to reconcile with each other and

01:05:55live together in a common polity of some kind?

01:05:58And I would say, yes, they can.

01:06:01Something that gave me a lot of hope and joy actually out of this year was reading the dispatches from

01:06:06the different campus liberated zones, where they wrote about they got to exist in a time and a moment where

01:06:14culture was not built upon profit, nor how you can be an immediate benefit to me.

01:06:20But it was truly about sharing. It was about caretaking. It was about educating one another from UCLA to Columbia,

01:06:27from CUNY to Portland State University.

01:06:30They built their own version of what we believe our education and our lives should look like.

01:06:34William Blake said, the history of all times and places is nothing else but improbabilities and impossibilities.

01:06:43What we should say was impossible if we did not see it always before our eyes.

01:06:49In other words, something you would have thought completely inconceivable could suddenly happen.

01:06:53We're seeing it all the time.

01:06:55If I had told you in the 1980s, within a few years, Nelson Mandela is not just going to be

01:07:00out of jail, he's going to be president of a free South Africa, you would have said, I'm hallucinating.

01:07:04If I told you in 1988, I predict the Berlin Wall is going to fall, the Soviet Union will no

01:07:09longer exist as an enterprise within five years.

01:07:12You would have said, what are you smoking?

01:07:14And yet, look what happened.

01:07:16All kinds of things have happened all through the history of the world that have never been predicted and never

01:07:21been anticipated, never been seen, and yet they happen.

01:07:23And that's what William Blake is talking about.

01:07:25But it's completely true.

01:07:52Everybody damn.

01:07:56You

01:08:04Thank you very much.

01:08:27How do I say this world?

01:08:31When they talk about the human being

01:08:35They see the mother who is crying

01:08:38Because they're not in the dark

01:08:42And they're making the world

01:08:48They're making the world

01:08:49They're making the world

01:08:50They're making the world

01:08:50And they're making the world

01:08:52And they're making the world

01:08:56And they're making the world

01:09:00And they're making the world

01:09:19How did I say this world

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