Musheir El-Farra of Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid explains the significance of the Palestine flag flying on Sheffield Town Hall on Friday, November 29, 2024. Interviewer: Julia Armstrong, LDRS
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00:00So this is Mashir Al-Farah from Sheffield Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid.
00:07Tell me today, what's special about today, why you're outside the town hall?
00:11Well in 1977 the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution to regard or to commemorate
00:19the 29th of November of each year as an International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian people.
00:25It was aimed at solidarity with the Palestinian refugees who were uprooted by force, displaced
00:33and forcefully evacuated from their homes and villages in 1948.
00:37Of course the General Assembly doesn't have the right of veto by the Americans or the
00:42British or other countries which support Israel so the resolution passed.
00:46So ever since on the 29th of November in every city, town around the world this day is commemorated
00:52as a Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian refugees of 1948.
00:58Excellent and what is this special about today, what's above your head?
01:01Today we managed to persuade the council through public pressure, thousands of people phoned
01:06and sent letters and messages to the council asking to raise the flag on the town hall
01:12mast on the International Day of Solidarity and the council finally agreed and we regard
01:18this as a good step, but a fair step because the council needs really to take more action
01:24to reflect the feelings of the people of Shahrid which is supporting the Palestinians against
01:28the genocide that is happening, against over seven decades of dispossession and occupation
01:34and denial of human rights and oppression basically.