Three the hostages and the siege, three the hostages and the siege. Three the hostages and the siege. What do we need? We need fire! We need fire! We need fire! We need fire! CC, CC, CC, fire now! CC, CC, CC, fire now! Many of us have been personally affected by the horrific events of October 7th, and are still standing here in solidarity with the Palestinian community in the midst of our grief. With both anti-Semitism and Islamophobia reaching frightening levels, this too is a chance to stand together against attempts to stoke divisions between minority communities here in the UK. We call for a ceasefire, a hostage exchange, and an end to the siege on Gaza, to fight the lie that occupation and apartheid are necessary and justifiable in the name of self-defense, and to end the full narrative that upholding these oppressive and brutal systems are key to Jewish safety. Hamas's taking of civilian hostages from southern Israel was a war crime, and on principle they should be unconditionally released, as should all Palestinians who have been arbitrarily detained. We are backing the Israeli family's demands for a hostage exchange that will hasten their return. As of November 1st, the number of Palestinians detained without charge or trial has risen to 2070 with mounting evidence of torture and mistreatment. I am not here to call for a ceasefire. Whenever it comes, it will be too late. It is also a hillow Hashem, an outrage, a desecration of God's name, that we should have to voice the need for humanitarian aid for the people of Gaza. We fear for the hostages, cry with the families of the more than 1000 Israelis killed and injured, as well as for the far greater number of suffering terrified Palestinians. Amid Israel's aerial bombardment, ground invasion and intensified siege, Palestinians in Gaza have none of the most basic things that you and I take for granted. There is no phone signal, which means you can't call an ambulance when your home or your neighbour's home is bombed. If your phone does ring, it offers both the relief of connectivity and the paralyzing fear of bad news at the end of the line. Families under fire have to choose whether to stay together and die together or whether to split up, even swapping children with other families. So that if some are killed, others will survive. If your local bakery hasn't already been destroyed, there's now just one loaf of bread for your whole extended family, if you're lucky. Your force to queue for hours for water that is no longer clean. There is no formula left in the shops to feed your infants. For several weeks, hospitals have been using a new morbid acronym on a daily basis. WCNSF. Wounded child, no surviving family. In one video that tore my heart into this week, a young girl who survived an airstrike wished that she was dead so that she wouldn't be left to live alone in a world without any of her loved ones. No where is safe in Gaza, with residential blocks, schools and hospitals all being bombed. Thousands flee the north upon the orders of the idea. We need to discover that there is no reprieve from Israel's airstrikes in the south either. All this only compounds, a man-made humanitarian catastrophe that started long before October 7th, with 75 years of displacement, 56 years of occupation and 17 years of blockade. No right to self-defense can ever justify this level of violence brought upon so many civilians. So we have a choice. Do we align ourselves with those calling for revenge, weaponizing fear to justify war crimes, defending for the brutal bombardment and siege, or do we stand up for freedom, equality and justice for all Palestinians and Israelis living between the river and the sea? The reverberation of the atrocities in Israel and Gaza I felt here in Britain too. Dividing rural politics is all around us. Whilst Jewish schools are defaced, mosques are attacked and there are shared concerns for safety. The struggle against anti-Semitism is co-opted to mobilize far-right mobs. Islamophobia and anti-Arab racism continue to rise alongside increases in anti-Semitism. Let's be clear, our government does not care about the Jewish community unless we are willing to act as cover for their own anti-Cyclician racism, their foreign policy objectives, or their enthusiastic dismantling of our rights to protest. When groups claim to speak for the Jewish community, as if every single Jewish person in the country all speak with one voice, that is a false narrative and it must be challenged. We are here to make clear to our communal and political leaders that Jewish safety is inextricably linked to the safety of all minoritized and marginalized communities, including Palestinians. We've been calmed for a long time by threats, by allegations, but I see more and more people speaking up united. We are proud of our Jewishness. We are proud of our Jewish community that we are building collectively and we are standing for Israeli freedom and Palestinian freedom and ultimately ending the violence is the only way. My extended family have deliberately been kept separate from the land of Palestine where my father was born and expelled forcibly in 1948. I have been turned back from borders and denied entry, as have most of Palestinians had members of their family who are treated in a similar way. I have been directly threatened at the border once and told that if I ever do anything against Israeli soldiers that they will get me wherever I am. Thank you. We are, as I believe Edward Said said, the new Jews persecuted, landless and dispersed. And at present, when we have members of the Knesset saying that they want to wipe Guards off the face of the earth and when they say things like, bars and needs to turn into Dresden, it's to try and take us back to a place where only Mike is right and a world that allowed for among other things the atrocities of the Second World War. And to that we say, never again, never again and not in anyone's name. We know that there are many in our community who are worried and afraid right now. We are too, but you do not fight anti-Semitism through the suppression of Palestinian solidarity. We are not kept safe by racist attacks on Muslim and Arab siblings. We are not kept safe by Soella Bravaman or James Clevverley or their colleagues. And we will never be kept safe by besieging Gaza or building a part-side walls. Here's a Hasidic story of the two lost people who come across one another in a forest. Neither has been able to find a path out, but each knows that where they have come from is not the way. Loseradere, together they decide to try to find a new way. As those two, we choose and Palestinians. We cannot be silent in the face of collective punishment and forced displacement. We stand for life, not revenge, and a future of collective safety, equality and freedom for all Palestinians and Israelis. As Martin Booparot, since we share a love of an attachment to the land, let us work together in its service and find a way together. No borders, no nations, no battle for declaration. No borders, no nations, no battle for declaration. No borders, no nations, no battle for declaration. No borders, no nations, no battle for declaration. Jews and Muslims won't be fooled, say no to divide and rule. Jews and Muslims won't be fooled, say no to divide and rule. Jews and Muslims won't be fooled, say no to divide and rule.