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00:25:38the 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 pay

00:26:09tuition for to uphold these values of being complicit with genocide there's so much gear

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

00:26:21shared like 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 specific

00:26:33to 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

00:26:54towards towards the explosions i was born in michigan both my parents are palestinian on my mother's

00:27:08side she was born in the u.s her family's from ramallah there's a time where we were like the

00:27:14only

00:27:14palestinian family in town

00:27:15why are you doing it earliest memory is like as a kid going to play with other kids we had

00:27:25just moved

00:27:25to a new house and another kid said go home and use the n-word that experience of like kind

00:27:33of like

00:27:33small-town u.s racism really kind of stuck with me as i grew older and older it was like

00:27:39the 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 800 000 palestinians were driven into flight from their homes beyond the borders

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

00:28:46of a of a jewish parent they're entitled to go to israel or palestine as i call it become israeli

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

00:28:58crime etc the overall feeling that i have is one when i think about it you know for any length

00:29:03of

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

00:29:08is one of the most part of it is one of the most part of it is one of the

00:29:27most part of it is

00:29:28a case that underscores the very essence of our shared humanity

00:29:35south africa contends that israel has transgressed article two of the convention by committing actions

00:29:46that fall within the definition of genocide for the past 96 days israel has subjected gaza to what

00:29:54has been described as one of the heaviest conventional bombing campaigns in the history of modern warfare

00:30:02having a complex history of genocides is important and one that's global that's actually trying to

00:30:12take into account the different ways that genocide happens right the point is that a genocide is not

00:30:18defined by the number of people killed it's defined by the targeted structure and aim of the violence so

00:30:29when you 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 genocide

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

00:31:14the

00:31:15jews true absolutely true and we need to hold on to that story we need to teach it but does

00:31:22that mean

00:31:22that we are always now victims and that we could never be agents or perpetrators of a genocide it's

00:31:29really important that we see that people who have suffered immense oppression can also inflict immense

00:31:37oppression i think that there's a really strong understanding that there's not an option to do

00:31:41nothing when faced with catastrophe and mass civil disobedience actions and really speaking out breaking

00:31:50the apparent institutional consensus 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

00:32:11i have a plea no contest makes a lot of sense in this case um as you know what folks

00:32:18did was a form of

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

00:32:24the courthouse um 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

00:32:36with the other parts of the public olympics the indemnity process and some people and wonder

00:32:42what this is but that would take the same thing but you do not acknowledge the graves

00:32:44rather than thinking about divesting from their investments in israel and stopping supporting this and

00:32:50challenging our local officials to speak out we would get a lot more coverage if uh if we were damaging

00:32:57property um if we were being violent um but we are peacefully protesting and that doesn't make good news

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

00:33:11breaking into the campus building overnight.

00:33:14You're watching Coin6 News this morning. I'm Emily Burris.

00:33:16And I'm Travis Teich.

00:33:17Late last night, Multnomah County DA Mike Schmidt announced there will be prosecutions

00:33:22as a result of this latest incident on Portland State University's campus.

00:33:26PSU has requested now the assistance of Portland Police Bureau

00:33:30to remove the trespassers from the library.

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

00:33:39to please leave the library peacefully.

00:33:42Watch the bricks! Watch the bricks!

00:33:56Students have continued to demand. Students have tried to meet with administrations.

00:34:00We've had teach-ins and rallies.

00:34:02What we saw was because of the administration's lack of good faith engagement with us.

00:34:10We're Palestinian-Americans, right?

00:34:12So, like, we're actively being affected by what's going on in Gaza or, like, the West Bank.

00:34:18I think the school didn't ever consider the fact that, like, there are actual people that attend your university

00:34:24that are 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

00:34:36as part of this idea that, like, we don't care about Arab suffering.

00:34:55I am assuming that some of the slogans that you won't say include,

00:35:01from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free, and globalize the Intifada.

00:35:10And Palestinians on this campus, and elsewhere, but on this campus,

00:35:15have explained to you, have told you, have said in all kinds of ways

00:35:21that 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

00:35:38that Palestinians are not 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,

00:36:00as a lamentation for the collective injury caused by relationships of inequality,

00:36:06as a hymn, a prayer, a promise for a future Palestine and Israel that we have not yet seen,

00:36:12but could still come to be.

00:36:14And I'm not suggesting that anybody else should hear it in that way,

00:36:17but I think it's important to share my perspective as a Jewish person,

00:36:21part of a long legacy that interprets this not as a threat,

00:36:25but as a 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

00:36:39in a national political theater meant to delegitimize higher ed.

00:36:44University presidents are getting hauled before conservative congressional hearings

00:36:47and accused of anti-Semitism by people with ties to white supremacist groups.

00:36:51They're more than just chants.

00:36:53They're like chants that somebody made because it was to save someone's life or to save our homeland.

00:37:00It's from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

00:37:03It's so one day we can all go home.

00:37:05These are real words.

00:37:06These are real words that we want to speak into life.

00:37:09We don't just yell it to yell it, right?

00:37:13It's to actually exist and to one day be a mantra, an affirmation, and a manifestation into reality.

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

00:37:24Okay?

00:37:26From the river to the sea.

00:37:27From 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

00:37:37from the river to the sea or intifada and so forth, it's an attempt to say,

00:37:42we will put words in your mouth.

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

00:37:45You 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,

00:38:03a Jewish state that runs from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

00:38:10The genocide underway in Gaza is a result of decades of impunity and inaction.

00:38:18Ending 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

00:38:36with the aim of making its occupation irreversible.

00:38:41It left us with a collection of disconnected Pantustans,

00:38:46preventing 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

00:39:36and expecting a sort of utopian 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,

00:40:00oh, it's never going to 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.

00:40:09You need to live together.

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

00:40:18But 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

00:40:42through the grounding of the state of Israel.

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

00:40:54that there should be no refugees, that refugees deserve sanctuary, they deserve home and rights

00:41:00and belonging, then the implementation of that policy, which produced a new class of refugees,

00:41:11goes against the very principle that the Zionists 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

00:41:50their occupier as a colonized people and the hatred of a category of people as subhuman who

00:41:58need to be ethnically cleansed from a national project.

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

00:42:17around anything German, the people she knew of in uniforms who victimized her family happened

00:42:23to have German accents.

00:42:31Like I was talking to a Palestinian comrade who was like, yeah, the only Jewish people my

00:42:37family have ever met are in uniform with the Star of David holding a gun.

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

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

00:43:07And 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

00:43:17of Israel.

00:43:18And 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

00:43:42people from destruction.

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

00:43:52Jewish state, the Jewish people will be destroyed.

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

00:44:06in a military action that increasing number of legal scholars call genocide all, it is jeopardizing

00:44:15the Jews.

00:44:15It 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.

00:44:22You need equal freedom, equal access, equal rights, equal political participation, and

00:44:28decolonization, quite frankly, because none of those liberal principles make any sense outside

00:44:33of decolonization.

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

00:44:41was interested in my Judaism growing up in a way that my mother was not very supportive

00:44:48of issues 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, and they

00:44:59were 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

00:45:08person.

00:45:09And one of the stations was go to Israel.

00:45:12And then there was this night called Escape to Israel Night, and it was a full-scale scenario

00:45:19in which the camp was transformed into a kind of Nazi gauntlet.

00:45:26The counselors pretended to be German guards, and all the campers were fleeing Jews trying

00:45:34to 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

00:45:43at, get 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

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

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

00:46:18And then once I learned that the United States provides 70 percent 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.

00:46:48None.

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 to

00:46:59protect 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,

00:47:24in mosques, in churches, and as they try to find food and water for their families.

00:47:36What began in New York at Columbia is incredibly inspiring.

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

00:47:51He inspired a whole generation of Palestinians towards academia, whereas all you saw in the

00:48:00nightly news at that time was a dehumanization of Palestinians and a complete erasure of Palestinian

00:48:07history, 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

00:48:30universities as well.

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

00:48:37that just in those times as they are now, the administration disciplined students.

00:48:43They 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, and just as long a history

00:48:57of student repression and student discipline.

00:49:00The 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

00:49:10in a car along 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

00:49:27of Palestine.

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

00:49:34at Columbia.

00:49:34New 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,

00:49:48quote, we are also aware that some may have the unintended effect of isolating those who

00:49:53have 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

00:50:11career.

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, which they refused

00:50:31to 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 in

00:50:39bringing 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.

00:50:53The student protests were the biggest the nation had seen since the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s,

00:51:00and 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 and talking to families whose children had been taken at night

00:52:07and were in detention and they knew nothing about them.

00:52:12Where is the job?

00:52:13Where is the job?

00:52:14Where is the job?

00:52:17Where is the job?

00:52:18Where is the job?

00:52:19Where is the job?

00:52:32Jason!

00:52:42The attempts to assault and intimidate the students, especially at night.

00:52:46Like things would get bad after work, so around 5, 6 p.m.

00:52:49That's when it would heat up and go through the night.

00:52:51The campus police did nothing to protect its own students.

00:52:54Of course that culminated in the last night of April, when there was a Zionist mob, basically,

00:52:58that came from off campus and attacked the encampment.

00:53:02And by attacked, I mean attacked with 2x4 planks with nails embedded in them.

00:53:06Gas canisters and pepper spray and all kinds of things.

00:53:12And the university did nothing to protect the students.

00:53:15Nothing at all.

00:53:16It just, it 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 counterparts at 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.

00:53:35Now there's this kind of alliance between the right wing and Zionist lobbyists and politicians.

00:53:41Because 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.

00:53:56They want to suppress it and put the genie of knowledge back into the bottle and so forth.

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

00:54:05And right wing Christian Zionism is something that made itself publicly known during the Trump presidency,

00:54:15when some of its proponents insisted that Israel had the right idea,

00:54:21that it was a place for the Jewish people and that the Palestinians 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, 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?

00:55:37I mean, do you want Columbia University to be cursed by God of the Bible?

00:55:44Definitely not.

00:55:45Okay.

00:55:46Well, that's good.

00:55:46So, that kind of Christian Zionism, maybe it was appalling to some liberal Jewish Zionists, but the fact is that

00:55:57liberal Jewish Zionists have, for the most part, supported the donation of military killing machines to the state of Israel.

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

00:56:15Prime 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, but many don't have a clue what river and what sea

00:56:41they'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.

00:56:55Don't they know that the land of Israel is where Abraham, Isaac and Jacob prayed, where Isaiah and Jeremiah preached,

00:57:03and where David and Solomon ruled?

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

00:57:17rights 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, don't these students know that this is the place of Abraham, Solomon, etc.

00:57:32And when I met with gay and lesbian groups in Ramallah, what they said to me was, you know, we're

00:57:40oppressed from different directions.

00:57:42There's homophobia here, but there's also anti-Palestinian racism and structural oppression that we live under.

00:57:51And 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 because we're not going to just

00:58:00oppose one oppression without opposing them all.

00:58:03Commencement ceremonies are taking place this weekend after days of demonstrations and encampments on college campuses.

00:58:09As Christian Benavides reports, some of these graduations are being interrupted by pro-Palestinian protesters.

00:58:15Demonstrations continued across the country, from UT Austin in Texas to DePaul University in Chicago,

00:58:21where police responded after tense moments between pro-Palestine and pro-Israeli protesters.

00:58:28Seize fire now! Seize fire now!

00:58:31We will not rest! We will not rest! We will not rest!

00:58:39To honor my fellow Gazan students that have been killed by Israel.

00:58:45And that was the only option, quite frankly, when 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, and 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.

00:59:08And now they are in the prison, and they go back and forth, back and forth, to the jails, Israeli

00:59:15jails, of course.

00:59:19It's so hard.

00:59:23In Janine, Israeli forces have surrounded the city, blocking exit and entry points and access to hospitals and ripping up

00:59:31infrastructure in the Janine refugee camp.

00:59:33Janine's been the target of frequent raids by Israeli forces, but this latest military operation is the largest since the

00:59:41Second Entifada two decades ago, when Janine witnessed some of the worst violence of that period.

00:59:47from the Chinese.

01:00:03Oh, my God. This is the middle of Janine City.

01:00:13this is what the Israeli army left after 10 days of attacking the cities with tanks with drones with

01:00:23thousands of soldiers so this was used to be a very active place a lot of people used to work

01:00:31here now they are jobless they destroyed everything as you see

01:00:46this is the center of the city look at the water they cut the water of course no electricity nothing

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

01:01:07it's very horrible so friends brothers sisters students professors spread the word in the United

01:01:16States people here they are struggling a lot every single tribunal from Nuremberg to Rwanda

01:01:25from Bosnia to Cambodia every prosecution at the ICC was meant to atone for our moral failures to

01:01:35protect us from ourselves and today we fail to stop today we fail to stop the skies from crashing down

01:01:44in white phosphorus flames onto Palestinian dreams memories potential onto Palestinian babies not old

01:01:55enough to beseech you to have mercy upon them we are here now with them and for them to demand

01:02:03a

01:02:04ceasefire we are here because Palestine reveals the naked hypocrisy of Western Universalism it reveals our

01:02:14enduring colonial reality and it offers a glimpse into a future without colonialism by 11 votes to 4

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

01:02:34President Salam judges Yusuf, Shwe, Bandari, Iwasawa, Nolte, Charlesworth, Brandt, Gomez Robledo, Cleveland, Tladi, against Vice President Siputinde, Judges Damka,

01:02:54Ibrahim, Greskin

01:03:03the first order was basically don't violate the genocide convention that's what they said effectively

01:03:08one might look at that and say well international law doesn't matter because Israel is just ignoring

01:03:13it and Israel's patron saint the United States also ignores it on Israel's behalf and you know even if

01:03:18Israelis flout those things they register in the minds of ordinary people and that's super important

01:03:25because the main way that Palestinians and their allies in the United States and around the world

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

01:03:34and sanctions modeled on the 1980s anti-apartheid campaign in the case of South Africa

01:04:02it is a a polemical ideological decision

01:04:08that makes them a mockery out of the whole idea of what a protected class should be well those of

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

01:04:21of Israel is not the same as the Jewish people they would have you believe it's the same as the

01:04:25Jewish

01:04:25people but it's not it's not the Jewish people it's this state formation and as Jews we could call

01:04:31for a different one. Nolte Israel initiates and markets prestigious projects throughout Israel

01:04:37in the heart of Jerusalem in the neighborhood of Bayez Bagan at the intersection of Tiltan

01:04:44David Meretz and Salim Tzapi streets a new residential project is taking shape Jerusalem view one reason

01:04:52why Palestinians have returned to this vision of one democratic state or a democratic and secular

01:04:57state is there's no other option at this point

01:05:08you look at the reality on the ground there is only one state there aren't 10 states there's one

01:05:12state in what in historical Palestine from the river to the sea and it's an apartheid state and it rules

01:05:17it over roughly equal populations of Jewish Israelis and Palestinian Arabs and and it rules them with distinct

01:05:25inequality because one population has rights and the other one doesn't we don't know what's going to

01:05:30exactly happen next for the Palestinian movement especially within the United States even though we

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

01:05:42for generations to come can there be truth and reconciliation can people who once you know had this awful

01:05:51historical experience can they find a way to reconcile with each other and live together in

01:05:56a common polity of some kind and I would say yes they can something that gave me a lot of

01:06:02hope and joy

01:06:03actually out of this year was reading the dispatches from the different campus um liberated zones

01:06:10where they wrote about they got to exist in a time and a moment where culture was not built upon

01:06:16profit nor how you can be an immediate benefit to me but it was truly about sharing it was about

01:06:23caretaking it was about educating one another from UCLA to Columbia from 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

01:06:43impossibilities what we should say was impossible if we did not see it always before our eyes in

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

01:06:53we're seeing it all the time if I had told you in the 1980s within a few years Nelson Mandela

01:06:59is not

01:06:59just going to be out of jail he's going to be president of a free South Africa you would have

01:07:02said

01:07:03I'm hallucinating if I told you 1988 I predict the Berlin Wall is going to fall the Soviet Union will

01:07:09no longer

01:07:09exist as an enterprise within five years you would have said what are you smoking right and yet look

01:07:15what happened all kinds of things have happened all through the history of the world that have never

01:07:20been predicted and never been anticipated never been seen and yet they happen and that's that's

01:07:24what William Blake is talking about but it's completely true

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