ACTIVISTS SET UP SETTLEMENT OUTSIDE ISRAELI EMBASSY TO PROTEST COLONISATION OF PALESTINIAN LAND
March 7, 2024This wins the award for most creative protest🥳🥳
Outside the Israeli embassy in Washington, protestors set up settlements or ‘kibbutz’.
“”It’s quite ironic that a government that has systematically ethnically cleansed people from their land is uncomfortable with settlements,”” one of the protestors said.
Protestors state they were constantly harassed by embassy staff and told to leave several times, however, they didn’t budge!
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English Script:
Protestors: War Criminal!
Hazami Barmada: We set up an encampment here in front of the (Israeli) embassy to remind embassy staff every single minute of their workday when they go and come and throughout the workday that the US public does not want a genocide.
Protestors: Baby killers! Blood is on your hands! Shame on all of you!
Hazami Barmada: We have another ‘settlement’ that we’ve been doing in front of the US Secretary of State’s House. And after Aaron Bushnell self-immolated right here behind me, we decided that it was time to expand our ‘settlements’ around Washington. We usually have our chairs here. This is public property. Around here, we have our facilities. So this is our storage. This is where we have our food, tents and then there are additionally another four tents that are set up on that side. In the beginning, we did sleep here. It was quite terrifying, to be honest with you. We had people screaming at us. We had people stealing our flags, the Palestinian flags. We have people taking down our signage. And so we hired security because it was relatively scary to be here. We’re calling our ‘settlement’ Kibbutz Israel because there’s so much romanticization around this kind of settlements in Israel. You hear oftentimes people talk about, “I make an aliyah’ and ‘it’s a kibbutz’, it’s an illegal settlement. And so we are using the play on words, using the term kibbutz and using it to build these settlements around Washington. It’s actually really terrifying to see the reaction that we have. We are a group of peaceful protesters and people going in and out of the embassy and the embassy staff are extremely hostile. They constantly harass us. They say very vulgar things. They curse us out, people walking in and out of the embassy when we hold posters of burned Palestinian children and injured Palestinian children. They will laugh. They smile. They say they deserve it. It’s vile. It’s actually pretty disgusting. There’s very few of them that are walking out of the embassy, that walk in quietly. The memorial that was set up for Aaron Bushnell was actually taken down by the Israeli embassy. They constantly complained to the police. They constantly ask for us to be removed. They complain about the sound. And it’s quite ironic and hypocritical that a government that has systematically ethnically cleansed and removed people from their land is uncomfortable with settlements. We obviously don’t care and it’s a powerful reminder to them that they’re going to have to deal with us every minute of every day. And we’re not going anywhere.