Omar Suleiman – The Stench of Israels Crimes – in Calgary Canada
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A speaker thanks the participants for their courageous actions during a recent night in Calgary, where thousands of people have been killed by the presence of war criminals. The speaker also talks about the need for people to use their brain and body to overcome the negative consequences of war, including intimidation and pressure to make people aware of the negative consequences of the presence of war on their bodies. The speaker also mentions the need for people to use their bodies to overcome the negative consequences of war.
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First and foremost, I want to extend my
gratitude to the brave students, the courageous students
that have braved night in, night out, day
in, day out, here at the encampment in
Calgary, despite the intimidation, on behalf of the
entire community that is here and beyond, thank
you.
May Allah bless you all, may God continue
to strengthen you and keep you determined.
I want to actually start off by reading
a poem from my beloved friend and fallen
brother, al-Shaheed, al-Dictor Rif'at al-'Arid,
rahmatullahi alayk.
On the shores of the Mediterranean, I saw
humanity drenched in salt, face down, dead, eyes
gouged, hands up to the sky praying, or
trembling in fear.
I could not tell.
The sea, harsher than the heart of an
Arab, dances, soaked with blood.
Only the pebbles wept, only the pebbles.
All the perfumes of Arabia will not grace
the rot that Israel breathes.
Rif'at al-'Arid, may Allah have mercy on
him, one of the tens of thousands of
martyrs now in Gaza, who said very famously,
if I die, you must live.
If I'm not around to tell my story,
you must tell my story for me.
Dear brothers and sisters, I wish that I
could share with you that Gaza has started
to see the lightning of the siege, but
the reality is that last night was probably
its most difficult night, that it is very
clear that as the world sees what is
happening, as the systems of accountability show that
maybe, just maybe, despite the pressure that comes
from the United States and Canada, war criminals
will be treated like war criminals, that entities
that deserve to be boycotted will be boycotted,
that colonization and apartheid are meant to be
things of the past and not things that
we tolerate today, that Israel is going for
the kill in every single way.
There's a saying that if your eyes see
one thing and your ears hear another, use
your brain.
And we don't just say use your brain,
but use your brain and use your heart.
What's happening right now in global consciousness in
particular, here in Canada and in the United
States, where you have governments that are not
just enablers of the genocide, but that are
complicit in the genocide, is that the public
is seeing something different than what they've been
hearing.
And it's hard to dress up the rot
of a genocide.
It's hard to compete with thousands and thousands
of mutilated children that somehow break through social
media suppression and show up on your screen.
It's hard to understand and rationalize the destruction
of every single university, every single mosque, every
single UN shelter, every single church, every single
institution that is vital to life.
It's hard to rationalize that.
And last night, I saw one of the
many traumatic scenes that many of us have
been seeing.
I saw a child who was bombed, who
was looking down as his intestines were out,
and somehow he was still alive.
He wasn't crying, he was shocked.
I don't know if he survived, but we
know what we're seeing, we know what we're
hearing, and we know the stench of genocide.
And I want to connect this directly, dear
brothers and sisters, to why the intimidation, why
the suppression of these encampments.
They have been successful at stifling our voices
on mainstream media platforms, but not so on
the media of the people.
They have sought to eliminate the physical presence
of the Palestinians from their lands, but they
have not been able to silence the voices
on their behalf outside of their land.
And your encampments, your encampments are so potent
of a weapon against their oppression that they
need to resort to unjustified, unnecessary force to
try to shut you down because they know
that they can't compete with the very real
images of genocide.
Because just like Rifat said, you cannot mask
the rot that Israel breeds even with the
strongest of perfumes.
People can smell it, people can see it,
and people are starting to hear it.
And it's upon you and I to make
sure that they don't stop hearing it and
seeing it until it stops happening.
And my message to this encampment that was
brutalized by the police and shut down in
the nights before, every single time they tear
down an encampment, build another one.
Every single time they shut down a protest,
start a new one.
Every single time that they intimidate, escalate.
Every time they intimidate, escalate.
I want to hear it from you.
Every time they intimidate, escalate.
Every time they intimidate, escalate.
Every time they intimidate, escalate.
They're not going to win this battle.
They're going to fail this time.
Because this time, we will not rest until
the genocide is over.
And until what preceded the genocide is over.
Until apartheid falls.
Until the wall no longer stands.
Until two sets of laws for two different
sets of people no longer is allowed.
Until our governments and our universities and our
institutions that we fund against our will, stop
funding the oppression and the genocide of our
people.
Thank you all.
Stay the course.
We are with you.
We are proud of you.
We see you.
And more importantly, the people of Gaza see
you as well.