Charlotte Church Smeared For Palestine Solidarity - She Tells Me The Truth
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
4.4 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 29 February 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Celebrated singer Charlotte Church is in the headlines - for taking part in a concert in support of the Palestinian people. Here she tells me why claims of antisemitism are totally baseless - and why so few public figures are speak out.
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| 0:00.0 | Over 38,000 Palestinians have been killed, over 14,000 of them children, most of Gaza raised to the ground, |
| 0:06.0 | its medical system destroyed, much of it completely uninhabitable. Gaza is now a different color and texture when looked at from space. |
| 0:14.3 | Now you might think those who have supported and cheered on this grave crime |
| 0:18.9 | would be the ones with serious questions to answer, being attacked, scrutinised, driven from public life. |
| 0:25.2 | Not so. |
| 0:26.2 | No, in fact, it's the people who have opposed this crime who have themselves come under attack |
| 0:31.4 | and there's been far too few with a public platform. |
| 0:33.7 | There are exceptions. |
| 0:35.2 | One of them is speaking to me now, the brilliant Charlotte Church, a hugely accomplished |
| 0:39.5 | and beloved singer, and one of the all-too musicians, let's just say it, using their platform to speak out against |
| 0:47.0 | the horror being unleashed against the people of Gaza. |
| 0:50.0 | Hi, how you doing? |
| 0:52.0 | Hi, Ewing doing? Hi, Owen. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm, how am I? |
| 0:57.0 | I'm a little bit, um, |
| 1:01.0 | I'm a little bit wounded, I think in terms terms of I'm not used to this this sort of press |
| 1:07.0 | Intrusion anymore like I saw I sort of took myself out and I knew and I knew it was coming. I knew it would have been coming for speaking up about |
| 1:17.1 | what's happening in Palestine. But I it's still quite, it's just not nice. Like I deeply care about humanity and I hate the idea that there are lots of people who genuinely think that I am antipheetic. |
| 1:37.2 | Yeah, because I'll ask about the concert because you released the statement in January saying I have my heart broken every day |
| 1:43.6 | watching videos from Palestine and in tears daily I keep paying witness as it fuels me to |
| 1:48.0 | keep doing all I can pushes me to do more to organize resist oppose fight like a lioness |
| 1:52.2 | for their liberation. |
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