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🗓️ 1 April 2025
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0:00.0 | Ever since the genocide began perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinian people, the world has |
0:04.9 | been turned upside down. This is a point I've made over and over again, which is that those who |
0:09.3 | support the genocide are treated as mainstream and respectable, and those who oppose the genocide |
0:14.0 | are the ones who are targeted, silenced, de-platformed, sacked, arrested, generally persecuted. |
0:21.8 | And here is another striking example. |
0:24.2 | And this is the sort of thing which you shouldn't have to do this sort of experiment, |
0:27.0 | but you can't go, if this happened in Vladimir Putin's Russia, |
0:30.6 | there would just be general outrage, and this would be an example of authoritarianism. |
0:34.9 | Well, this didn't happen in Vladimir Putin's Russia. |
0:37.2 | It happened in Britain |
0:38.2 | under Kirstarmer's Labour government, which is the police raiding a Quaker meeting house, |
0:44.8 | which I've been to myself, hosting young people organising against genocide and arresting |
0:49.4 | them, as well as other aspects which we'll talk about. Now, I'm really delighted to be joined |
0:53.4 | by Sam Holland of |
0:54.6 | youth demand. That's the movement of activists, young people who've been doing sterling work, |
1:01.1 | fighting the genocide being committed with British complicity and facilitation. Sam, great to speak to you. |
1:08.6 | How you did? Yeah, Owen, thank you so much for having |
1:10.8 | us. It's really great to be on the show in the wake of this madness. Well, can you tell me first, |
1:15.1 | what was the conference? What was it all about? Yeah, so in case people don't know, I'll just briefly |
1:20.4 | recap what youth demand is. We've got two demands of the government. So we're demanding the |
1:25.7 | government imposes a total trade embargo in Israel, including of weapons. So we're demanding the government imposes a total trade embargo |
1:28.4 | in Israel, including of weapons. And we're also demanding that the UK government raises |
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