Reflections on recent events in Palestine from the UK context.

Timestamps

0:18 Introduction: validating feelings of grief and rage

1:49 Witnessing South Africa presenting evidence at the ICJ, an affirmation of what we know.

2:45 the Labour Party are as pro-genocide as the Conservative Party, colonialism and imperialism unmasked

3:45 'This isn't new'. Colonisation: the largest genocide in human history, 1492 in the Americas

4:50 Israel’s brazen and overt genocide, media gaslighting, the need to recognise the occupation

6:05 ICJ Ruling and defunding UNRWA, is the West a sinking ship?

8:47 BBC censorship and complicity

10:45 Statistics from the last 115 days and Palestinian death toll

11:49 Yemen, Palestinians in Israeli jails, global calls for a ceasefire

13:09 BDS, boycotts, more Yemen, pulling investments

13:55 International solidarity, a growing global movement, the 'global south'

15:00 Walking with people on marches, a profoundly moving experience

17:00 Living in alignment, not numbing

18:25 ‘It means a lot to people that you are there’, bringing friends with you

20:05 Confronting my own assumptions and looking horrors in the face

21:25 Acceptance of evil actions, people's lack of conscience

22:25 Being gaslit into feeling scared to call out genocide!

23:25 This is damaging for the oppressors too

23:40 Systems, racial capitalism, figureheads as symptoms of systems

24:34 a TikTok on rats as a metaphor for our harmful systems, push

26:25 Pushing for system change, revitalising our movements

26:39 A reminder not to descend into despair, keep taking action and building a better world

27:18 Gratitude for people spreading information and showing solidarity

28:16 What action do we need to be taking?

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Maria x