CF 2023 | Keynote Speech On Palestine by Ilan Pappé 

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." ... "He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.” Martin Luther King. Do we remember the words of Pastor Martin Niemöller?.... "First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew. (THEN THEY CAME FOR THE PALESTINIANS AND I CHOSE TO REMAIN SILENT. I WAS NOT A PALESTINIAN.) Then they came for me, and there was no one left to speak for me."

Is Ilan in his car? I love this dude.

We need more people like Mr Pape. His views are crucial to resolution of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and is consistent with Mahatma Gandhi’s views in 1940s who said (and I am paraphrasing): A Palestine without Palestinians is ludicrous as France without Frenchmen or England without the English

“The attitude we adopt towards the Arab minority will provide the real test of our moral standards as a people" Einstein Jan 1955

"We would have had Palestinians speakers, but unfortunately they are busy trying to not die."