Toronto Al-Quds day Walk 2022
Thousands of people gathered in front of US consulate to commemorate annual Al-Quds day, on April 30th, 2022 at 3:00 pm.
This day is typically held worldwide on the last Friday of the Islamic Holy month of Ramadhan. Protestors, young and old, gathered to condemn the oppression upon the Palestinians and all other nations that are victims of war.
The rally began with numerous chants condemning the Government and all those alike for supporting injustice against the Palestinians. People shouted slogans such as, “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “Down down Israel,” and “From Iraq to Palestine, Occupation is a crime.”
Respected Scholars, human right activist, Rabbi’s, holocaust survivor and children spoke at the protest delivering informative speeches, passionate talks, follow-up action items and spoken words.
Suzanne Weiss, a Jewish Holocaust survivor and long time human rights activist was one of the speakers at the Protest. She spoke about her traumatizing experience during the Holocaust and how she sees the very same events being unfolded for the Palestinians. It’s upsetting to see history repeating itself, this time the Palestinians are the victims.
One of the spoken word poetry highlighted the hypocrisy of the Government officials and Media organizations during the current Ukrainian crisis. It highlighted Diplomats and Politicians rushing to condemn Russian aggression while supporting and financing decades long Israeli occupation of Palestine. The Media outlets labelled the Ukranian resistance as “heroism ,” and Palestinian resistance as “terrorism”. The world saw the blatant hypocrisy of the self proclaimed flag bearer of democracy and equality, cherry picking which war and which country they want to support or condemn.
Protesters then marched around Downtown holding Posters and chanting slogans for the Palestinians freedom.
Participants were encouraged to continue their struggle with few important follow up action items.
Canadians, from all walks of life, stood tall in the sunny yet cold weather conditions, with deep concerns about humans rights violations and injustice for all oppressed people specially Palestinians, they demanded an immediate end to their 75 years long oppression and colonization.
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