800 people marched in Portsmouth today for Palestine.
Organised by Portsmouth and South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign and supported by trade unions, faith groups, student societies and many others, the march called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the siege of Gaza, the occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and an end to the apartheid laws in Israel.
Organised by Portsmouth and South Downs Palestine Solidarity Campaign and supported by trade unions, faith groups, student societies and many others, the march called for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, an end to the siege of Gaza, the occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, and an end to the apartheid laws in Israel.
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00:00 Hello, I'm Rosie Clements-Gander. I'm a teacher and I just think any casualty of life is important.
00:23 Working closely with children, I think it's really, really important that collectively
00:27 we speak out against any injustice against children, women, men, whoever. I just think
00:34 it's our human collective effort to say that this is not okay but every day I just feel like the
00:41 bombardment of it every single day. Every day I wake up and I put my daughter to sleep thinking
00:45 that actually I'm grateful but there are women in the world that are putting their children to
00:49 sleep not knowing if they're going to wake up and see their children, not knowing if they're
00:52 going to wake up. I just think it's horrific. I don't understand how we're so close in history to
01:01 a genocide happening and we teach about it in school that we can't see it for what it is
01:07 and that I don't necessarily feel like I can speak out because it's so controversial and
01:13 there's lots of people that think that Palestine should essentially just roll over and take it.
01:22 I just wish that the collective hope for everybody, from everybody that is saying no to
01:29 this, that we could engulf you with safety. I know it's not going to happen but I think
01:36 the narrative is changing or the narrative is staying the same but I think people's minds are
01:41 changing and I do wish for 2024 that this will change. My name is Peter Rowe and my great
01:50 grandfather Arthur Law was one of the very first MPs for the Ramsey Macdonald government. I really
01:57 do feel that the history of that period from the First World War or just before the First World
02:05 War needs to be further documented and taught in British schools. When I've spoken to teachers
02:12 who've tried to have it put on the curriculum they say that it's up to the examination boards
02:18 and the examination boards don't seem to want that period of British history revealed and it's
02:25 probably because of the influences that don't put Britain in good light during the time of the Balfour
02:34 Agreement and Nakbar and the fact that the Palestinians fought for the British against
02:42 the Egyptians in the First World War because Britain was frightened to lose the Suez Canal
02:49 and the oil fields in Saudi Arabia but after the war we just reneged totally on that agreement
02:58 and from then onwards we've let Palestine down at every hurdle.
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