6, 7, no, just do it.
Yeah.
Can I have you say and spell your name?
Your full name?
Dalia Saba, D-A-H-L-I-A-S-A-B-A.
And tell me what you're doing for me.
So we're out here today after over six months of an ongoing genocide.
During genocide, through decades of injustice against the people of Palestine,
to demand that UW-Madison finally end its complicity for the ongoing genocide
and the Israeli regime.
So specifically, we are demanding that UW-Madison divest its holdings from companies
that are supporting the ongoing violence through supporting the occupation,
through supporting prisons, through supporting borders,
and we demand that UW-Madison listen to its students.
And I see that our 10th step here.
What is here?
We have seen that the university has refused to take us seriously after months of protest.
And so we are here to stay, to show that we are not going away,
and to demand that the university listen to our demands.
So we have an encampment set up here.
How long we are out here depends on how quickly the university responds to our demands.
Yeah.
And what would be a reasonable response that you would expect today?
We expect movement from the university
that makes significant progress towards achieving these demands.
We have heard empty promises before, and we are going to take that.
Okay.
And there was a Jewish protester that walked in front of here saying that
he just disagreed with the protest.
Do you have a message for Jewish students on campus?
We have many Jewish students who are participating in this encampment.
I think that to paint Jewish students as a monolith
is to paint any group of students as a monolith is to do a disservice to them.
I think that we are here because we demand an end to genocide,
and we demand an end to the horrific violence that is being inflicted
against the people of Palestine, and we see that as a message
that anybody should be able to rally around.
And are you here representing an organization?
I'm here as a member of Students for Justice in Palestine.
Okay.
Do you have anything else to add?
I want to emphasize that we are here specifically today for the people of Palestine.
We have seen, you know, protesters across the country
be brutally assaulted by ponies, and that is horrific.
And it is important that we ground all of this struggle
and all of the university response to these encampments
in the fact that these universities are simply refusing to end their complicity
with the genocide that's going on right now.
And last question, do you have a message to Palestinian students on campus?
I encourage Palestinian students on campus to make their voices heard.
I think the university has encouraged us to stay silent by threatening us
by, you know, implicitly making us feel like our lives aren't valued
with statements made by the university.
And so I encourage Palestinian students to speak up
and to know that we are out here, the community is out here,
and together we can fight for a free Palestine.
Are you Palestinian?
Yes.
Okay.
And what are you studying here?
What you're doing?
First, you're a grad student.
Are you from Afghanistan?
Yeah.
No.
Where are you from?
I'm from Palestine.
Okay.
Thank you so much.