University of Glasgow students walkout in solidarity with Palestine.
University of Glasgow students march through campus in solidarity with Palestine.
University of Glasgow students join the national student day of action for #Palestine in Scotland and walkout on campus.
University of Glasgow students march through campus in solidarity with Palestine.
University of Glasgow students join the national student day of action for #Palestine in Scotland and walkout on campus.
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00:00 End Israeli Apartheid!
00:07 Student strike for Palestine!
00:10 Victory to the Palestinians!
00:12 It's happening on campus right now.
00:14 We're going to march around.
00:16 Glasgow U needs shame on you!
00:18 We have blood on your hands too!
00:20 Glasgow U needs shame on you!
00:22 We have blood on your hands too!
00:24 Hi, my name's Shawnee. I'm a student here at the University of Glasgow.
00:27 I'm here today because we've called a student strike
00:31 to show solidarity with the people of Palestine
00:34 and to make a statement against the University's
00:37 investment in arms and fossil fuels
00:40 and its complacency in the war that's currently going on just now.
00:44 While we're assembling outside the main gates,
00:47 I'm going to go right around the University.
00:49 We're going to make our voices heard.
00:51 We're going to make sure that everyone knows what we're thinking.
00:54 The University is complicit
00:57 and it's not making a clear statement either way,
01:00 so it's important that as a student you make your voice heard
01:04 and you stand up for the people of Palestine.
01:08 Glasgow U needs shame on you!
01:10 We have blood on your hands too!
01:12 I think it's happening in Edinburgh and London
01:17 and across different places in the UK as well.
01:20 This has actually been a weekly occurrence now
01:25 and we're going to keep going until something changes.
01:28 We've had a lot of support from students.
01:30 Last week we had about 300 join us, which was great to see.
01:34 Hopefully we'll have a big crowd today as well.
01:37 I think like any reasonable human being,
01:40 when you see the death of 3,500 civilians
01:44 that's ongoing and is being defended by the mainstream media,
01:49 you feel like you have to do something about it,
01:52 or at least say something about it.
01:54 We're here to demand an end to the siege of Gaza
01:58 and a ceasefire now because 300 Palestinians
02:02 are dying every day under bombardment.
02:05 The Israelis have dropped more bombs on Palestine
02:09 than the US did during the first year of their invasion of Afghanistan.
02:14 Think about that for a minute.
02:16 More bombs in three weeks than the US could drop in a year
02:20 in a space that is 10km wide.
02:24 Think about that.
02:25 One of the most densely populated places on earth
02:29 where half the population are children.
02:32 So we are out today to challenge British complicity.
02:36 Yesterday marked the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration
02:39 when the British Home Secretary, Foreign Secretary in 1917,
02:43 gave part launch to the Settler Colonial Project.
02:46 The UK is Israel's fourth largest arms supplier.
02:51 Elbit Systems has 10 sites across the UK
02:54 and supplies 85% of Israel's land military equipment.
03:00 Brands like Puma, McDonald's, Domino's,
03:03 all complicit in Israeli apartheid.
03:06 And that is why we are here today
03:08 and that is why we have to be out on Saturday
03:13 in our hundreds of thousands rejecting the response
03:16 of the British ruling class to this crisis.
03:20 Suella Braverman calls our marches hate marches.
03:23 These aren't hate marches.
03:25 These are solidarity marches.
03:27 [Cheering]
03:29 [Music]
03:35 [BLANK_AUDIO]