Omar Suleiman – March on Washington For Gaza
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A representative from the movement interrupts a news program to promote peace and encourage listeners to support their movement. They highlight the importance of protecting people in the face of violence and express hope that they will not forget the loss of their lives. They also mention the ongoing struggles of families affected by the violence and the need for everyone to call for a ceasefire.
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Assalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim.
In the name of God, the most compassionate,
the most merciful.
Behind me, you have over 200 martyrs that
are represented by their families.
200 martyrs whose stories were never told in
the mainstream media, posters that you have not
seen on the light poles here in Washington,
D.C. or in New York or in
Chicago or in Dallas.
And all of us represent now over 36
,000 people that have either been martyred or
that are under the rubble.
And I want you to appreciate that in
this country, this isn't our first protest.
We have taken to the streets in the
name of one victim of state violence for
months at a time.
If we were to take to the streets
for every single casualty and every single person
that is under the rubble for the last
three months, it would take us a hundred
years to honor each and every single one
of those victims.
And if we were to collectively take to
the streets for the rest of our lives,
for just one of the people on these
posters, for just one Wa'al al-Dahdouh,
it would be worth it.
They ask us where our Nelson Mandela's are.
We say that our Mandela is suing you
criminals at The Hague right now for genocide.
We say that our Mandela's are the children
that have resisted over seven decades of occupation
standing in front of Israeli tanks.
We say that our Mandela's are the Wa
'al al-Dahdouh's and the Mu'taz's of the
world who continue to hold up cameras to
your genocide unintimidated.
We say that our Mandela's are the Rachel
Corey's of the world, are the allies of
Palestine, that despite all of the Israeli propaganda
over these years, have never relented in standing
by our side and saying that we will
not go home until every Palestinian can go
home.
Dear brothers and sisters, I wonder what Desmond
Tutu, who went to Palestine and recognized apartheid
and said this is even worse than what
we experienced in South Africa and who particularly
bemoans watching ambulances blocked by checkpoints and apartheid
walls.
I wonder what he would say watching this
genocidal government bomb hospitals and ambulances today.
I want to capture not just the cruelty
of the moment, I want to capture the
insanity of the moment.
How low is the threshold?
How low the barometer that calling for a
ceasefire is too much for some politicians and
media commentators and people who claim to be
for human rights with the backdrop of 10
,000 murdered children.
How low is the threshold of morality?
And so we say that if with the
backdrop of genocide, you have still not found
it in your moral conscience to call for
a ceasefire, you are heartless.
And we say that if with the backdrop
of the occupation and apartheid that enabled the
genocide in the first place, you still have
not called for the end of the decades
long atrocities against our people, you are shameless.
And if you have failed to see our
humanity, we have not failed to see your
hypocrisy.
And you've made it clear that shipping lanes
in Yemen are more important to you than
our lives.
And you've made it clear that you want
our votes without hearing our voices.
But we're going to make you hear our
voice today on behalf of all of these
families and all of the martyrs and all
of those that are still standing strong.
Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., we charge you with
genocide.
We charge you with genocide.
We charge you
with
genocide!