"It is time to stand up and be counted so that our children know we stood on the right side of History. We need to show the Palestinian people in our millions that they are not alone."
"It's the historical forces. Once it comes, you have only two alternatives. Either you are with the people, or you are against the people. It's very simple."
Addressing delegates at the Dilemmas of Humanity Conference hosted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, the Minister of International Relations says the world can not look away while millions of Palestinians are suffering.
Palestinian activist Leila Khaled delivers the key note address at the third International Dilemmas of Humanity conference in Johannesburg. Hosted by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa.
"The following article by Greg Thomas, the curator of “George Jackson in the Sun of Palestine,” was published in Ittijah, a new Arabic-language publication by Palestinian youth issued by Nabd, the Palestinian Youth Forum."
"I do not rejoice over death. I rejoice over the possibility to live."
"It was Malcolm who warned us in his lifetime about the damage being done to the Palestinians, before any other African American leader or civil rights organization, just as he would take on the Vietnam War before anyone else would."
"Science, in its many powerful institutional manifestations, is now essentialized as an a priori source of truth, existing above economic interests or social determinations and exempt from historical or ideological evaluation. It is the one remaining mirage of legitimacy behind which global capital continues its rampage of planetary looting and destruction."
"From France to Israel, South Africa to Brazil, the film was banned precisely because of its ethical endorsement of guerrilla war against occupying forces and repressive, Western-backed dictatorships. In profound ways, this has arguably been the central and enduring legacy of the film about what constitutes “terrorism” and legitimate resistance, conventional war and asymmetric guerrilla warfare."
"Concerning Violence is a 2014 documentary film written and directed by Göran Olsson. It is based on Frantz Fanon's essay, Concerning Violence, from his 1961 book The Wretched of the Earth."
