Demo at Buchanan steps in Glasgow: solidarity with Palestine by Glasgow Stop The War Coalition.
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00:23 So please give a warm welcome for Muhammad Asi. Thank you.
00:26 [Applause]
00:30 Thank you, brothers and sisters.
00:32 Let me make this very, very clear for the right-wing media and the right-wing
00:37 fascist and racist politicians in this country.
00:40 We're standing here, we're not defending Hamas.
00:44 We are here with the people of Palestine.
00:47 [Applause]
00:51 Palestinian life matters.
00:54 It is not if, it was a question of when.
00:58 When this is going to happen.
01:01 And we are here to stand in solidarity, sending our praise, thoughts
01:07 to all those innocent people who were killed on both sides.
01:11 Innocent people, I say, innocent.
01:14 [Applause]
01:18 This is not in my name.
01:20 I am in the name of Jewish people all across the UK and across the world
01:24 who have consistently stood up against the atrocities carried out in Gaza,
01:28 in Palestine, in the West Bank, and also we always stand in solidarity
01:32 with the Palestinian diaspora who are all across the world
01:36 because they've been forced out of their home lands.
01:39 [Applause]
01:41 We have a role to play in holding our government to account
01:44 for the bombs that are falling on children with our taxes in our name.
01:48 We say not in our name. Not in our name.
01:51 [Applause]
01:53 From the river to the sea, our friend will be free.
01:57 And most people know that every generation of young Palestinians
02:02 revolts against the oppression that they have been put under by the Zionist state.
02:09 [Chanting]
02:12 The IHRA definition of anti-Semitism and its examples which effectively
02:17 try to say that any criticism of Israel is anti-Semitic.
02:20 This is totally and well untrue.
02:23 As you've heard from people who spoke from this platform,
02:26 we say there's a difference between criticising the apartheid state of Israel
02:31 and then opposing anti-Semitism.
02:35 There's a difference between these things.
02:37 And I want to kind of say very briefly what we've seen within the Labour Party as an example.
02:42 Once the IHRA definition was passed, there's been literally almost no official discussion of Palestine.
02:50 There's not a single MP that I'm aware of right now who's gone public and said that they condemn what Israel is doing.
02:56 Viva, viva, Isis!
02:59 Resistance is not a crime and we will stand shoulder to shoulder with every Palestinian
03:05 who fights back against their oppression and their tyranny.
03:09 [Applause]
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