In the summer of last year, we gathered
here and in Trafalar Square
week after week during the massacre of
thousands of Palestinian people, men,
women, and 500 of them children in Gaza.
Speaking in parliament a couple of
months later, I warned the members of
parliament that the next uprising would
be in Jerusalem. And now we have the
Jerusalem interif. And we say victory to
the Jerusalem intera.
Not because we love violence, we hate
it. Not because we wish for the death or
the wounding of anyone,
but in this we have to place the context
that the BBC and Sky never will. The
people in Jerusalem are rising up
against almost 50 years of brutal
illegal occupation.
And it is their legal and their moral
right to do so.
And there is no equivalence
between the violence of an occupied
people and the violence of those who
overwhelmingly with superior force
occupy them.
That's why when I was young on the
television in dramas, we thrilled to the
actions of the French resistance of the
partisans in Italy and Yugoslavia
because we recognized that when a people
is violently illegally occupied for
decades in this case and there is no
other way to throw off, shake off that
occupation,
then the people have every legal and
moral right to fight. And that's what
they're doing now. And we have one
choice.
Are we with the European colonial
settler state represented by that
embassy there? Or are we with their
victims?
Hamash said earlier in his speech that
he was a Palestinian.
All over the world this day on social
media, on the streets of capitals and
other cities, we are saying in our
thousands, in our millions, we are all
Palestinians.
In our thousands, in our millions, we
are all Palestinians.
In our thousands, in our millions, we
are all Palestinians.
One last point,
every major party in this country
has a friends of Israel.
Conservative friends of Israel.
Unbelievably a Labor Friends of Israel.
Why does Israel have any friends in the
Labor Party, let alone hundreds who will
glasses at their ritzy receptions
at conference time? We have to create a
situation in this country where people
would be ashamed to be photographed at a
friends of Israel suare.
That's what we did in the struggle
against apartheite in South Africa and
that's what we must do in the struggle
against apartheite in Palestine. Lastly,
they say in their lack of context
that somehow this inifada
stands in the way of a negotiated
solution to this ancient conflict.
In fact,
it's long past time for negotiation.
negotiation between one party which
holds all the weapons and has the
support of almost every government in
the world and another party which has
only faith themselves and us on their
side. This balance of power has to be
changed. There's only one solution and
that is one democratic state. From the
Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,
Palestine will be free. Wasalamu
alaykum. Thank you very much.