Best-selling, Award-winning Palestinian novelist and activist Susan Abulhawa talks about participating in the Oxford Union debate on Israel's genocide. Parts of her speech were censored by the organization. Susan explains she was inspired to partake in the debate by others who had like Malcolm X and James Baldwin. When Susan mentions that the Oxford Union embargoed the speech of another speaker, Miko Peled, for being criminal Katie and Susan point out that by that reasoning, anyone praising Nelson Mandela while he was on the terrorist list would have been breaking the law.
Yanis Varoufakis On 23rd October, Yanis Varoufakis testified in front of the Jury of Conscience in the context of the Gaza Tribunal. His speech focused on the economic forces underpinning the genocide of the Palestinian people. In particular, he spoke on the manner in which capitalist dynamics have historically fuelled the white settler colonial project and, more recently, how the accumulation of a new form of capital - which he calls cloud capital - has accelerated, deepened and amplified the economic forces powering and propelling the machinery of genocide.
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