Abboud Hamayel (Abdaljawad Omar)
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To the students flying the Palestinian flag everywhere:
In the 1980s, while attempting to raise the Palestinian flag under direct Israeli military control, Mousa Hanafi, a student at Birzeit University who hails Gaza, suffered a fatal bullet from an Israeli sniper.
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The raising of the Palestinian flag has always been, and will continue to be in the future, a transgressive act; it terrifies those who think of Palestine and Palestinians as a people destined for elimination.; "How dare they enunciate their existence?
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Students were worried that Israel would take away his corpse. To smuggle his corpse without detection, the students placed a cap and glasses on him and positioned him in a sitting position in a car, claiming he was blind. The body ultimately reached his final resting place.
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After he was shot and killed, other students hid his corpse while Israeli soldiers searched for his remains. They smuggled his body from Birzeit in the West Bank to Rafah in Gaza.
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To see the Palestinian flag raised at every university encampment, to see your hands held together, rubbing shoulder to shoulder, to see the attempt to oppress and smear your voices only attests to resonance of a flag that has become a symbol of liberation for all.
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When Mousa was killed, a song was written that speaks to his martyrdom:
Stand in rows, rows, and rub your hands together, his mother has come. Oh precious, oh adorned one, oh teardrop, oh delight, our groom (The martyr) is scattered, where to? Our groom has closed his eyes.
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Our flag, like Moussa's body smuggled through checkpoints, reminds us that power cannot see everything; it is almost certainly weak. Despite all the tears and the bitter shattering of our bodies, Palestine lifts you and rises with you.
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Palestinians have historically been accused of being emotional when they speak. Many used to say that Palestinians sounded hysterical and angry. These accusations were meant to suggest that Palestinians lacked rational arguments and therefore resorted to an emotional tone.
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Thread:
Israel's insistence on showing naked men in performed scenes of surrender, mostly civilians (I highly doubt many are fighters, if any), is meant to reaffirm its own power and to tell its allies that it is accumulating some semblance of success.
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here is the song:
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I am not sure that German and European collective guilt blinds it from seeing what is happening in Palestine. In fact, I think the opposite is true. European subjectivity takes delight in seeing its historical victims becoming oppressors.
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When Ibrahim Al-Ra'ii, a Palestinian prisoner, was killed by his Israeli interrogators, a quote about his experience during interrogations and prisons became a staple in the narrative of Palestinian sumud (steadfastness) in prisons. One story reads:
Ibrahim (to the Shabak
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In any conversation with recently released prisoners from the West Bank, the conversation inevitably drifts to the horrific conditions that Israel has imposed on Palestinian prisoners. The deprivation of food and medicine, the routine beatings, the isolation of individual
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UNRWA:
A widely held Zionist trope thinks that what sustained the demand and desire for Palestinian return after their ethnic cleansing in 1948 was UNRWA. It thinks Palestinians are only wedded to Palestine through a UN mechanism and institute.
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Today, ambassadors from various European countries convened in the 'Palestinian Museum,' located near Birzeit University. They wish for Palestine to become merely a museum—a silent archive commemorating the triumph of yet another European colonization project. A place for
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Currently, Israel and its allies are preparing the ground to blame Palestinians for any failures in "ceasefire negotiations." It is important to note that through years of negotiating with Israel, Palestinians have grown accustomed to some of Israel's tactics:
1. Extol any
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Let's just be clear, with or without UNRWA, Palestinians will demand return and attempt to actualize it even if it takes 2000 years.
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There has always been a colonial left that acknowledges the humanity of the colonized, only to then condemn it, all in the same breath. It exalts the human and degrades the colonized subject. This left says: Yes, you're human, but nonetheless contemptible. How dare you resist?
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Today is the end of the fast, and the beginning of Eid. A time that has been traditionally started by visiting the dead early in the morning. As Palestinian Muslims in Gaza, and the rest of Palestine mark the Eid, we are reminded that our struggle is first and foremost a struggle
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In the second intifada, I was a young teenager riding my small bike during curfew hours with fellow children and teenagers in the neighborhood. The streets, normally bustling with life, lay eerily silent under the oppressive weight of enforced stillness.
The curfews during this
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Palestinian agreed to a ceasefire that would lead to the release of Israeli captives and end the war. Israel responded by launching what looks like an operation in Rafah. But we are told that Israel is fighting to get its captives out of Gaza (sure!).
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What propels Israel to kill journalists?
Many will claim that Israel does not want to the truth to come out, the truth of its ongoing slaughter in Gaza. Journalists are mediator, that show, exhibit and provide the information, the data of the slaughter. they are
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"Tel Aviv, Ya Habibi, Tel Aviv" — a chant Zionists raise proudly amidst their protests on American campuses. But the appropriation of Arabic does not obscure the deeper wounds: Tel Aviv rose upon the ruins of dozens of Palestinian villages, at the cost of the ancient,
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The difference between the 1970s, '80s, and '90s was that Palestinians became emotional because they held the truth, yet no one was willing to listen. Today, Israelis are 'losing it' because the truth has arrived, and it fails to arouse shame.
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In many ways what is truly naked is Israel itself and its own fragility and vulnerability, the void that can't be easily filled. Although it meant as a display of power, it actually shows the persistence of the lack of power.
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Nothing can encapsulate better the current moment than the heroic and tragic act of Aaron Bushnell:
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Palestine has lost tens of thousands of its people in this war. Many remain unburied, and the killing machine goes on without rest. May it be the last Eid we live in a world that is not ours.
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Trivializing the young has perennially been a tactic through which power mobilizes reactionary forces against emergent movements, particularly those driven by students. The narrative recurrently paints the young as immature, naive, inexperienced, and deficient.
I recall,
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Recently, Israeli spokespersons, and supporters have been speaking either through anger, emotionally or by expressing their genocidal desires. Yesterday, Mustafa Barghouti remained calm when faced with what can be clearly described as a vehemently pro-Israel journalist.
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It's not surprising, therefore, to see outright racism, genocidal expressions, and orientalist tropes. I don’t know Julia, the journalist who screamed at Mr. Barghouti, but she should meet some Palestinian women; they would surely teach her a lesson.
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The echo of past wars is central here. Arab troops kneeling in the presence of Israeli power is reenacted for the Israeli gaze. It tell us more about the crack in Israel’s psychology, which was fractured throughout this war, leading it to the domain of lousy propaganda.
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Rendering men naked and on display is the ultimate form of 'shaming': they are defenseless, disarmed, and kept alive only by the grace of Israel's military machine. It is a primordial showcasing of power, as the exhibition of manhood thrillingly fills the void in Israel's power
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A side note: Israeli propaganda says this is measure meant to uncover any "explosive belts". Such measure does not need the maintenance of nudity, nor does it demand being videotaped.
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Also its meant to symbolically erase the Palestinian issue from the registry of the UN. Zionist logic: "No UNRWA, No Refugees, No Return". This coming from a political movement that claims a mythic return after 2000 years of exile.
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During years of student activism at Birzeit University, and despite repeated strikes by students that led to the university being closed for months—including what could be seen as excessive actions on the part of the students—the police were never called to evict the students.
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I read a heavy dose of articles that attempt to rationalize Israel's war in Gaza or discuss the necessity of war, urging us to move beyond outrage and accept the basic paradigm that "War is Hell." The most recent article is by Zionist scholar Elliot Cohen. The fundamental problem
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Ceasefire negotiations:
Historically Israel employed a strategy in negotiations that hinges on four interlinked elements. First, mediators while distinct actors remained dishonest brokers pushing Israel's agenda on the Palestinians.
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The centrality of the village in the Israeli imagination of Palestinian life is a familiar Orientalist trope. But it is more than that. In the film Tantura, members of the Alexandroni Brigade, who committed a massacre in this small, scenic village on the shores of the
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Biden's speech tonight rhetorically blames Hamas, but its underlying intent is twofold: to place pressure on Israel's right-wing government and to assuage the growing movements opposing the war and advocating for a liberated Palestine. In private discussions, Biden is acutely
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"This reveals the depth of Israel's damage and the dire need for solutions beyond airpower or AI systems—strategies that can't heal. There's a pressing call for direct combat, to unclothe and disarm Palestinian men, something today's military tech can't offer its operators.
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In a nutshell, Israel is looking for a negotiation process that legitimizes the persistence of its genocidal war. The differences between its various camps in Israel are not large; one would sign a temporary ceasefire that can be retracted at any point. The other camp rejects
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Israel's need for the war to continue is tied to its understanding that any end of the war will only bring about a reckoning it's not ready to deal with. The more it can throw the can down the road, the more it can postpone internal political and social fallout.
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Sharing some articles that I appreciated:
Joesph Massad here writes eloquently about how savagery is a sign of the looming end of colonialism:
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to end the anxiety of living in a world where you can lose a loved one anytime to imprisonment, or death based on the whim of a settler or soldier or perhaps a calibrated AI machine. A struggle to live a life where others do not control the flow of time, and plays god with space.
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It is at once a capitulation to the intractable horror of our times and a defiant stand against the paralyzing effect of despair. To that Aaron at this symbolic level embodies us all.
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This throb or reflex is generally the result of external instigator. To shake-off therefore is almost an unconscious immunological response.
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This is also indeed why it's hard to determine when does an intifada starts or ends. But in its origin, it's a defensive concept that has an affinity with a concept field like stasis, sumoud, preserving, despite it proactive quality of also "fighting back".
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To Zadie Smith:
I am a man, neither young enough to be a child nor old enough to be an elder. It transpires that, like my Palestinian brethren, we are the one's upon whom tears are least likely to fall. Though I am not from Gaza, I have cherished it as you do New York City, yet
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Years ago, as I walked through a modest gathering in the heart of Ramallah, the crowd swayed with the rhythm of Palestinian flags fluttering in the air. A young man approached me and asked, "Why are people gathered?"
I glanced at the scene before us, knowing well that it was the
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That is how conditions for psychological redemption are created. It's not in turning away, or in historical and collective guilt acting as a barrier for seeing and bearing witness. It is this guilt that propels an attitude that secretly wishes to tell Israel:
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Since the war broke, I have been unconsciously bidding farewell to the streets I know, to familiar grounds of my childhood, when I first learned that a soldier could kill my father, or could rob me of good friends.
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UNRWA does provide services and jobs, however, it has been largely hostile to Palestinian radical revolutionary tradition. Israel for instance hates the fact that UNRWA registers Palestinian refugees and their descendants and claims that this sustain the category of refugee.
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For israel's war machine it desires to see journalists enunciate the last word: declaring surrender. But journalists insist on offering truth. This is why today they are targeted intentionally. Like the doctors who refuse to leave their patients.
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In a recent article in the Washington Post, Yuval Harari defends Zionism by highlighting that, at its core, Zionism is a yearning for a form of Jewish nationalism and the right of Jews to self-determination. Ironically, Harari does not acknowledge the tension between this defense
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An intifada could be interpreted as the eruption of the space of possibility for the appearance of various series of interlinked chains of broken and rehabilitated rhythms and repetitions of political “actions”
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Aaron's turn towards the self is not a narcissistic retreat but rather a radical form of exposure, self-immolation in the public square of moral and existential reckoning. This act, this turning, embodies a paradoxical gesture:
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The journalists simply refuse to proclaim the last word. Insisting on the production of more words, more truths, and more descriptions. Today Israel killed Wael's Dahdouh son Hamza, he was killed while refusing to enunciate the Death of Gaza.
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It comes as no surprise that students are met with such severe repression—this is not to legitimize or normalize their suffering, for even if foreseen, when it unfolds, it remains as unjust and shocking as ever. Palestine persists as an anomaly in the corridors of empire, her
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My new piece on the Question of Palestinian Mourning
Abdaljawad Omar reflects on Judith Butler’s “The Compass of Mourning,” asking how can Palestinians mourn in a space of relentless revulsion that erects barriers, redefines boundaries, desecrates bodies, and takes lives arbitrarily.
@HHamayel2
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affirm life, steadfastness and a civic form of defiance in the face of genocide and erasure. Wael -Al-Dahdouh has been described as the mountain of Gaza, its voice and its collective embodiment of severe exhaustion yet standing defiantly.
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Palestinians are made to suffer economically and the central importance of UNRWA is economic, health and educational. It true that it provides a place were Palestinian are registered as refugees (not all), but the current move is meant for the economic pain to be felt by all.
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The US, UK, Netherlands, Australia, Canada along with some gulf countries decided to escalate their support for Israel's genocidal war by bombing Yemen. This is not about freedom of navigation in the seas, this is about allowing Israel to continue with its war.
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From experience: Be careful of all the voices that want to create fissures and break coalitions, the voices that elevate tactical choices to principled moral opposition. Remember that you might differ, but it's not about the "I" or even the small "we." Beware of radicals who
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UNRWA in fact does not register all Palestinian displaced and ethnically cleansed from or within Palestine. The current move to defund UNRWA is meant to as a political leverage vis-a-vis the Palestinian national body and form of collective punishment.
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The son of Netanyahu parties in Florida protected by the money of Israelis, while many of the leaders of Palestinian resistance have sacrificed their own families. Israel has given power to a corrupt, self-serving and weak leaders.
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During the harrowing siege of Beirut in 1982, as Israeli forces tightened their grip on the city, Mahmoud Darwish penned a poignant poem to his comrades, urging them to confront their conditions head-on. He implored them to "Besiege your siege, for there is no other choice...
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'show us more, show us what you can commit.'
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The pervasive feeling of hopelessness engulfs us as we bear witness to the systematic massacres, initially of 1000 Palestinians a day, now reduced to 100. This relentless carnage prompts an urgent struggle within us to act, to halt the horrific reality unfolding before our eyes.
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لم يفارقنا وائل في هدوئه، ولم يجعل منا ضحايا لا تصرخ. العالم تخلى عنا، ونحن في الضفة أيضا تركنا أنفسنا نحترق امام الخوف من آلة الدمار الداخلي التي تكتم علينا، ونلهي أنفسنا بكل ما هو غير مجدي. نعلم تماما ما علينا فعله ونختار السكوت. حبذا لو يقتلونا جميعا وينتهي هذا الالم المديد.
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I have been breathing heavier and have given up on quitting smoking. I have in many ways like everyone else I know wanted to punish myself for the limits of courage, the limits of all our small acts. The hollowness of words, even the slow erosion, and the energy to write.
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Nonetheless, it also has a rhythmic quality, one that supposes the intensification of a specific rhythm and a specific movement, the ability to oscillate, but also the insinuation that this oscillation includes a process of intensification and relaxation.
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The student encampments stands as both a reclaiming of space and a testament to a truth that has thrust itself into the public eye, demanding to be seen, demanding to be acknowledged. It is a chain of bodies, steadfast yet fluid, crafted in a manner that allows for swift
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القضية ببساطة ان انتصارتكم لم تحمي علي من رصاصة اقتنصها جندي لا يبلغ من العمر اكثر من عشرون عام، كما لم تحمي جسد عامر النحيل من قطيع الجنود وضربات الحقد التي نالت منه حتى فارق الحياة. اجسادنا قرابين انتصارتكم.
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an archival first responders. This indeed partially why Israel takes revenge on them, it is a means to quell the production of truth. But this is not the whole story. One could also say that journalists in the context of this war,
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My published article in Critical Times, you can find here:
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Yemen sea blockade was measured and targeted ships heading to Israeli ports or owned by Israeli. It declared from the outset that a lifting of the siege on the Gaza strip would signal the end of its sea blockade on Israeli shipping. Meaning it offered a diplomatic solution.
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A written interview that
@Louis_Allday
conduct with me. I am very glad that he was gracious enough to give me space to write some of my thoughts.
In this interview,
@Louis_Allday
speaks to Palestinian writer
@HHamayel2
about October 7th, the political aims of Palestinian resistance, the reactionary dismissal of those aims by many Western intellectuals, international solidarity & possible futures.
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شكلت صورة الشهيد فارس عودة ايقونة لما حملته من معاني بما فيه موقع الفلسطيني في ميزان القوى مع العدو والإرادة التي تجسدها. طفل في مواجهة آلة، وحجر في مواجهة مُصفحة.ما تمثله الصورة هذه ايضا هو سعي الفلسطيني للتغلب على هذا الميزان، فعندما لم يفلح الحجر ظهرت العبوة التي نسفت الدبابة.
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At the current moment, Israel wants to achieve three things from any ceasefire agreements. Maintain its force disposition, retrieve as many Israeli prisoners as it can, and keep the war open, even if delayed.
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بكل صراحة، أحيانًا ما تتصرف حركات مدنية على أنها مرجعية لا يمكن تجاوزها، وتقاتل على تلك المرجعية على حساب اللحظة التاريخية التي أمامنا. بيان حملة المقاطعة أدخل نفسه في قتال داخلي لا يفضي إلى شيء سوى تآكلها، خاصة في لحظة سياسية أنتجت أفقها المقاومة. تتمرد على من وفر هذا الأفق،
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Palestinians as the "Middle Finger":
There is nothing more satisfying than giving your middle finger in response to external stimulus. To say in gestures "fuck you". Now imagine not having to give that gesture, but embody it. This is precisely how Palestinians are seen
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Perhaps this is a moment where the students reclaim their historical role, the return to more durable movements that fold within it the fight for Palestinian liberation, and all forms of racism. For Palestine to be liberated, the world indeed must change its "settings".
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Nothing but a hopeless hope sustains whatever is left of our sanity. A hopeless hope that truth will overcome might. That a child running in a meadow will one day run without appearing as a target.
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ببساطة الافلام الفلسطينية بما فيها فيلم "هدية" لم تصنع لنا، فهي بالاساس تتخيل جمهور "غربي" متخيل، او حتى في الكثير من الاحيان تُصنع لتكن مقبولة في المهرجانات الدولية. الفيلم فيه الكثير مما يمكن ان يُقال بما فيه سردية متخبطة، وسيناريو مبعثر، توظيف سيء للمكان، وبعض اللمحات الجميلة
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ليس هناك ما هو طبيعي أكثر من القاء الحجارة، مهما بلغنا من مقام، ومهما بلغنا من العمر، ومهما القت علينا الحياة من مسؤوليات والتزامات. الرحمة على روح المؤذن عاطف حنايشة وعلى شهداء ربيع فلسطين.
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Thread on US war in Palestine:
The US does not want to end the war, nor does it see in a permanent ceasefire a solution to the ongoing slaughter in Gaza. The operative theory that the US is more dovish then Israel on Hamas is simply not accurate:
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It is as if a metaphoric fire engulfs us. Cynically, and perhaps also pessimistically, I find solace in the knowledge that Gaza is only the beginning and that the months and years to come will see the massacres expand across Palestine.
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When I first learned that my very sight on the beach that once beamed with Palestinian life on the shores of Jaffa was enough to arouse revulsion and for the police to come and kick me and my father. No Arabs here, or at least no arabs with your particular ID can be here.
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Second, it waited to see Palestinian responses to conjure up its own response. It did not commit to any mediated resolution accept when Palestinians showed that they are willing to commit.
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اقترن اسم وديع حداد في الذاكرة الفلسطينية بمقولة "وراء العدو في كل مكان"، معبرة عن النموذج الذي ابتدعه وديع ورفاقه والمرتبط إلى حد بعيد "بأممية وكونية الفدائي"، بل في امكانية خلف اوصال "تضامن" عابرة للاديان واللغات والثقافات تلتقي حول رفض الاستعمار واستغلالية رأسمال.
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Third, it employed dual tracks and attempted to see whether within the same camp there are others who might be more pragmatic, or more willing to tow its line among the Palestinians.
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think western academic institutions are liberal beacons for thought, scholarship, debate and teaching. More tragically this is occurring over what seems to be one of central exceptions for any debate, Palestine.
Solidarity with the students at Columbia
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Resistance fights so economic well-being is not contingent on your "Erez." The 100s of billions you send to support the slaughter of Palestinians could have been used to eradicate poverty, provide health insurance, and end homelessness in the US. So pls dont give us a lectures.
I went to Erez and saw the 2.5 mile Hamas tunnel near the crossing; Hezbollah would be envious. The amounts of cement, steel, metal, wiring, pipes, wood, boggle the mind. All this could have been used above ground to build impoverished Gaza. But Hamas cares little for its public.
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They have been throwing smears at us for a century, and dismembering the truth over and over. Columbia students are facing the same barrage of ideological smears, thrown at them to scare the young from the truths they have come to recognize.
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Fourth, It always said, "Yes, but..", In most instances the buts made the whole proposed agreements mute. It always remained the importance of not allowing itself to say an outright no.
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This article by Gina Abi Ghannam does justice to the work of Walid Daqqa in his study of new techniques of torture entitled seraing consciousness or redefining torture:
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The culture of the university never allowed it; the fear of introducing oppressive mechanisms from outside the university prevented it. The university always chose to negotiate with the students. But ironically, in our self-orientalization, many Palestinians
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We will not need to bear witness then, I say to myself, and I tell my friends, in our case, it will be a massacre without the battle.
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It might be perverse, but these are the term of the world I was thrown to, a walking and talking middle finger.
On the comment section someone wrote that when he sees the Palestinian flag he feels 'irritated'. Oh Dear, this is exactly and precisely the point.
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My new piece
Abdaljawad Omar writes about what it means as a Palestinian to be "inescapably marked from the moment we enter this world" as the target of Israeli snipers and modern warfare machinery. Also: What is the sniper's "kinship" with his target?
@HHamayel2
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