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You can watch the full lecture (about 2 hours long) here if interested. The YouTube account is German but the lecture is in English.
#shlomo sand#history professor#biblical myths#seek the truth#its all a lie#there was never a jewish exile#the entire concept of the founding of Israel is a lie#propaganda kills#israel lies while Palestine dies#religion has caused more misery and death to millions over centuries than any good its ever done#dangerous ideology#apartheid#save palestine#israel is an apartheid state#ethnic cleansing#free palestine 🇵🇸#genocide#Zionism was founded by an atheist but still uses biblical references as justification#zionism isnt judaism#zionism is nazism for the 21st century#anti zionism and antisemitism are not the same thing#stop weaponizing words to prevent debate#illegal occupation#collective punishment#famine#nakba 2023-2024#israel must fall#israel is a terrorist state#israeli war crimes#israeli apartheid
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#endisraelsgenocide#israeli apartheid#israeli crimes against humanity#nakba 2023#nakba 2024#israel is breaking international law#israel is an apartheid state#israel is not a country#israel is an illegal occupier#palestine#gaza#basic human rights#human rights violations#i stand with palestine 🇵🇸#free gaza#free palestine 🇵🇸#free palestine#palestine resources#gaza strip#gazaunderattack#israel is a terrorist state#israel is a war criminal#israel is a genocidal state#israel is committing genocide#Instagram
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A Preliminary Report from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
The destruction of cultural heritage in Gaza impoverishes the collective identity of the Palestinian people, irrevocably denies them their history, and violates their sovereignty. In this report, we offer a partial list of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza that have been destroyed, damaged, or looted by Israeli armed forces since October 7, 2023. This report is necessarily incomplete. It is very difficult to determine the status of archives, libraries, and museums in Gaza during the ongoing Israeli bombardment. Current conditions in Gaza, such as the targeting of journalists, frequent communication blackouts, and extensive damage to the built environment pose an immediate threat to safety. Moreover, archivists and librarians have been repeatedly displaced, injured, or killed, making it even more difficult to take stock of the damage to cultural heritage. As a result, it should be assumed that this report represents only a fraction of the extent of damage and death, not a complete picture.
We compile and offer this information with the understanding that the erasure of Palestinian culture and history has long been an Israeli tactic of war and occupation, a means to further limit the self-determination of the Palestinian people. In 1948, during the Nakba, 30,000 books and manuscripts were looted from Palestinian homes; in 1982, during Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, Israel looted and confiscated the library and archives of the Palestine Liberation Organization; libraries and archives were damaged during the Second Intifada, and have been repeatedly targeted in Gaza. Furthermore, the intentional destruction of cultural heritage has been recognized as a war crime and prosecuted in the International Criminal Court.
This report joins those issued by Heritage for Peace (November 7, 2023), the Palestinian Ministry of Culture (December 6, 2023), the Arab Regional Group at the International Council of Monuments and Sites (January 9, 2024), and others. These reports document the destruction of religious sites, archaeological evidence, cultural institutions, and more. We bring a focus on libraries, archives, and museums as sites of knowledge, community spaces, and repositories of cultural heritage. Irreplaceable historic materials have been lost in the destruction of institutions such as the Central Archives of Gaza City and the Rafah Museum. The destruction of libraries represents the loss of not only book collections, but the efforts of Gaza’s librarians to acquire, care for, and provide access to reading materials, despite Israel’s ongoing blockade of the Gaza Strip.
Finally, we include information about the librarians and archivists who have been killed in the ongoing Israeli bombardment. We mourn the deaths of our colleagues and their families.
February 1, 2024
Librarians and Archivists with Palestine
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I know for a lot of us, today is Mother's Day. I don't celebrate Mother's Day, but even so, it is IMPOSSIBLE to go through today without thinking about all the Palestinian mothers who have been murdered The Palestinian mothers who have lost their children to Israel's genocide, funded by the West. The children who have lost their mothers. The Palestinian mothers giving birth without any form of anaesthesia. The Palestinian mothers starving themselves more so that when and if aid gets through their children can hopefully have more rations. The Palestinian mothers who are fighting illnesses and injuries. The Palestinians mother who don't know what they're going to do. Those in Palestine who have had to step up to take on the role of a mother. The Palestinian mothers not getting a chance to take a break or process anything because they have to beg for the world to care, to look, to convince us to give aid and listen so that they can evacuate, so that their families can survive at the very least.
As of Sunday 12th May 2024, Mother's Day, nearly 35,000 Palestinians have been murdered and over 14,500 of those Palestinians are children. This is since October 7th 2023, this does not take into account all the lives lost since the Nakba in 1948. And Israeli Forces are currently carpet bombing the Jabalia Refugee Camp.
Remember these mothers and children. Please do not stop engaging with Palestinians and what their posting, with resources, educating yourselves. Please keep sharing, donating, and going to local rallies, protests, and vigils, keep engaging with Operation Olive Branch, and please keep emailing your government and local representatives!
#mothers day#mothers day 2024#palestine is a victim of settler colonisation#save palestine#support palestine#palestine news#palestine will be free#palestine genocide#palestinian mothers#palestinian children#stop the genocide#fuck israel#genocide in gaza#israel is committing a genocide#israel is an apartheid state#israel is a colonising state#the nakba#operation olive branch#palestine#free gaza#gaza#rafah#all eyes on rafah#free rafah#free palestine#palestine will never die#email your reps#free palastine#palestinian lives matter#palestinian liberation
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I just saw the video of the man holding the body of the beheaded baby 🧍🏻♀️ that shit is so horrible
I hope every single person that supports Israel goes to the deepest parts of hell and suffers unimaginable pain
And my apologist too
Fucking pigs
All Israelis needs to commit actually omgg
full agree. israel has always been and continues to be a terrorist state, and fuck them and fuck people who continue to call this a conflict or remain ‘neutral’ because there is no neutrality—there should be no neutrality—in the face of genocide. being pro-palestine is also not antisemitism and im so so tired of seeing these arguments circulate
“hamas is at fault.” israel has always been and continues to be a terrorist state. 75 years of nakba. oct 2023, netanyahu rejected ceasefire. feb 2024, he rejected ceasefire and calls for peace talks with hamas. may 2024, operation in rafah. safezones were crossed; bombs dropped on civilians, including white phosphorus bombs that “cause deep and severe burns, penetrating even through bone.” drones were used to shoot at civilians. women raped. children raped. captured palestinians forced in concentration camps.
this scale of atrocity only ends with a permanent ceasefire AND the complete liberation of palestine. fuck people who still dont get it.
here is link that has a template email that you can send to a rep (USA) or mp (UK) for demands of ceasefire.
i saw a post going around that said that the coherence/length of calls and emails do not matter because the reps/mps look at the number and frequency that the demand is being made (basically, how many are they getting is what matters). so please please do this.
here is a masterlist of where to donate. here is a link that asks for you to click which is then converted to a donation (pls set up alarms because you can do these everyday!) here is a masterlist for all aid (including congo, sudan, haiti, hawai’i, etc.)
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"whether we like it or not, the leila khaleds of the world are forcing us to pay attention to them."
thoughts:
how interesting that the host says that israel says the Palestinians 'fled' from their homeland while the Palestinians say they were 'driven out' - notice the changing narratives within israel, previously using the excuse that Palestinians themselves left and emptied their houses voluntarily, and now, in 2024, saying that the Palestinians never existed, or that they fought against jews and were driven out in the retaliatory attacks. they change their lies to whichever one suits their agenda more. similarly, back when colonialism was the popular thing to do in europe, herzl openly called for the colonization of Palestine by 'civilised' european jews. now that decolonization is popular, israelis often argue that the nakba and forceful displacement of Palestinians was an act of 'jewish decolonization' and reclamation'
notice how, despite being a Palestinian who literally lived through the nakba, and a resistance fighter herself, leila refuses to center herself. she remains humble, says that she has only done her duty, which is small compared to her cause, she's neither a heroine of a joan of arc. it is important to remember that anyone who truly cares about the cause does not center themselves as individuals. this behaviour is only seen from grifters, such as shaun king or khaled beydoun, who pedestalize themselves within the movement, and act like the sole saviours of the people. meanwhile, sincere and committed activists, like leila, who are on the frontlines, always put the cause above themselves.
notice how she says that the people of the world do not pay attention to Palestinians when israelies forcefully displace Palestinians, when israeli bombs kill Palestinians and their children, but these people only pay attention when the palestinians fight back. still rings true to this day, the violence of the oppressor is seen as the norm, the violence of the oppressed is seen as 'unprovoked, uncivilised, meaningless.' remember that before oct 7, 2023 was already one of the deadliest years for Palestinians in the WB. remember that israel has bombed Gaza several times in the past.
important that she points out how religion has little to do with the cause of Palestinian liberation itself. it is not a muslim cause. meanwhile the oppression of Palestinians and theft of Palestinian homeland is still justified on the basis of the religion of judaism.
im surprised by how patient she is. she says that she does not expect to see a free Palestine in her lifetime because a struggle such as hers takes DECADES. despite this, she strongly believes that one day, Palestine will be free. she says: "we believe that a popular revolution needs a long time. and time is with the people, always, not against them, when they use it properly and i think we are beginning to use the time properly"
when she said she has only seen heifa, her hometown in palestine, from the air ........... </3
#free palestine#palestine#gaza#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#glory to the martyrs#long live palestine#long live the resistance#death to israel#death to america#leila khaled#palestinian resistance
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Executive Director of American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) Osama Abuirshaid said at an April 25, 2024 speech at the George Washington University encampment that protesters will change America forever. He said that Zionism will be a dark moment in history, and the generation of the participants in the encampment will bring this "disgrace to an end." He concluded his speech, saying: "We will take back America […] You will be the past, we are the future. Assalam Alaykum."
The video was posted on Osama Abuirshaid's Facebook page. Abuirshaid posted on his Facebook page videos of other speakers at George Washington University on April 25, one of whom was Rafiki Morris, who said in a May 2023 Nakba Day rally in Washington D.C. that the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist and that America is a Zionist country and it must be destroyed.
Osama Abuirshaid: "They know they are going against the force of history. They are trying to destroy you before you succeed in bringing this imperialism to an end, before we bring this poison of Zionism to an end.
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"Now, we know what America stands for. We know what these elite colleges stand for. They are only structures in an imperial project. Israel is only another structure in an imperial project. Zionism is no less evil than white supremacy or any sort of supremacy.
#Osama Abuirshaid#amp#american muslims for palestine#george washington university#america#israel#zionism#Youtube
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March 23, 2024
About the “‘In a Week’ Project”
I get stuck every time I try to write this because all the details beside the main message seem so frivolous.
The song “In a Week” has always elicited strong images whenever I listened. The same movie would play in my head, but with slightly different details each time: skeletons laying peacefully in an open grave at the top of a hill; no, there was a picnic first, then the slow decay; actually, the scene should play in reverse, so the bones grow flesh and skin…
Two months after October 2023, I was getting high in a bath on my birthday and listening to the song. The story was no longer about the passing of time or decomposing next to a lover. The persistent imagery that played in my mind from then on morphed into a story about a choice a young fictional couple made while facing a horrific situation that no one should ever have to go through, but many real people did and many still do.
Everything in my life is now about Palestine.
I’m Palestinian, born and raised in America after my grandparents (that’s how recent this all is) were displaced due to settler colonialism during the Nakba in 1948. I gave up on the dream to visit the area where my family is from a long time ago. (In fact, I don’t think I ever seriously dreamt of it because it felt so impossible.) Gaza has reignited that dream and gave me the determination to dedicate my life to fighting for our right to return. I will do anything to take advantage of this unprecedented support we now have from around the world.
I’m constantly learning horrors, both new and of the past. There is always something new to learn in the worst way possible. There is nothing Zionists can do that will shock me; they have shown they are capable of doing things rooted in the deepest levels of evil. What makes everything so much worse is the lack of accountability and how they have the audacity to act like the victims. I often get frustrated in my efforts to help on the American front; I let my shyness and anxiety get in the way of doing even the simplest of things to help. This project is a way to use my strengths (writing) to help spread the truth about our history and show the abject horrors that have been overlooked for decades. They benefit from the denial of the Nakba and from the overall lack of knowledge.
I hope this “‘In a Week’ project” is interesting enough to get people to read it and at the same time learn the details of what ethnic cleansing looks like (and the deplorable people who do it with pride.) The one takeaway I want to make sure is known is that even though this was inspired by a heartbreaking love song and has elements of the romance genre, it is not a romantic story.
The reference page (to come) that lists what parts of the story are based on real events that Palestinians have gone through is the most important part of this whole project.
The true face of Zionism is rearing its ugly head and is finally starting to fall, all by their own doing. There is no argument to be made; I only have to show what has already been done.
Again:
This is not about romance or romantic love.
Every detail shows a bit of truth.
The Project:
I call this a “project” because I wrote this story two different ways, a short story and script. The similarities will be obvious at first, but then the script goes deeper into the horrors of ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism. This is where the majority of the historical context comes in. I think I went further with the script than the short story because I see this project in terms of imagery that should unnerve people, and I think the best, most direct way to do that would be on-screen visuals.
I will probably do 3 versions of each: one with no callouts or notes, one with endnotes and references, and one with annotations where I explain everything (just because I love to do that.) There are 3 important dates coming up that I will (hopefully) use as my deadlines: March 30th is Land Day, April 9th is when the Deir Yassin Massacre took place, and May 15th, the day the Nakba is commemorated.
What’s making me drag my feet on this project is having to look up the sources and read more about the Nakba. I don’t know how much more I can take.
Fears:
I’m actually not helping.
This story only comes off as romanizing the Nakba and fucks up the narrative of Palestinians and the history in a way I didn’t see, and I become a disgrace.
People’s only take away is the romantic tragedy element.
#palestine#free palestine#jerusalem#arab#creative writing#gaza#arab art#hozier#hozier album#hozier music#hozier lyrics#andrew hozier byrne#in a week#short story#script#scriptwriting#palestinian#free gaza#unreal unearth#unreal unearth tour#lyrics#wasteland baby#the hoziest#writing#arab writing#nakba#al nakba#ethnic cleansing#settler colonialism
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Poetry... and the refusal to forgive
Poetry
Like haiku
Long as the epic
Framed like the sonnet
Free because automatic
Or the opposite
The apogee of the Body's harmony
And our common home
Poetry
Questions reality
Like philosophy
It asks profound questions
Poetry
It engages
It confronts
It denounces
It condemns
It often has the wisdom to explain
But to explain and analyze is not to forgive
Sometimes forgiving, because poetry is reflection
But often
No forgiveness!!!
Absolute Evil
At the birth of the human being
At the genetic level
At the level of human civilization
Does not exist
Science and its disciplines
Psychology and its disciplines
Psychoanalysis and its disciplines
Explain the most unspeakable crimes
Evil can unfortunately be constructed... !
Explaining even the most unspeakable
Is impossible, knowing that the memory is unforgettable
But forgiveness is something else
When two kids break a window
A severe reprimand is called for
But given the lack of seriousness... parents... teachers will forgive
Human beings practicing a religion
will find sufficient strength of spirit...
But no forgiveness... for the oppressor
Who committed an unspeakable crime, a massacre, a genocide
Or who provoked it
What can be said of those who, by their silence or passivity, become accomplices?
No forgiveness... for the men of power
Who destroyed hundreds of millions of human beings
Until the Napoleonic era
No forgiveness... for the monarchist butchers
Who took soldiers for cannon fodder
No forgiveness... for the bloody repression
The rebels of 1830 and 1848 who stirred up the whole of Europe
No forgiveness... for the Versaillais who, with cannon and bayonets
brought down the Paris Commune
First great Popular Revolution with a humanist vision of the future
The last of them were shot against the walls of the Federates
Or exiled far from their native lands...
No forgiveness... for politicians
and those who enrich themselves
At the mass graves of the First World War...
No forgiveness... for those responsible for the Second World War
Sixty million dead
No forgiveness... for those who built pyramids of profit
The Shoah, the industrialized death of six million human beings
No forgiveness... for the many other genocides of the twentieth century
No forgiveness... for the Israeli leaders
who have occupied Palestine since 1948
by provoking the Nakba and since the elimination of the Palestinian people
No forgiveness... for the terrorists who committed a massacre on October 7, 2023
No forgiveness... for the Israeli military who have killed nearly thirty thousand civilians since...
Man exterminates the notion of Man and Woman
And violates every written declaration since 1876
The shirts are back in power in Italy
Phalanxes resurface
Brown shirts all over Europe and the world
are regaining strength
Man has no memory...
Or is he stupid?
Does he perhaps ignore the meaning of the words Reason and Humanism?
Or does it all depend on profit?
No forgiveness ... for those who provoke
hunger, thirst, disease, displacement of populations called "immigration" by populists,
the disruption of the planet since the pre-industrial era
No forgiveness... to be aware of it and even stronger
No forgiveness ... to carry on and crush opponents like ants!
No forgiveness for these men, these women and their unborn children
Following the same path ... elite ...
No forgiveness... No forgiveness... No forgiveness...
© Myriam Ghezaïl Ben Brahim ❤️🥀
2nd February 2024
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Happy New Year to everyone🎉
As you look back on 2023 and move forward into 2024 do not forget about Palestine, do not leave them in the past and move on. It isn’t a trend or something that will just stop in the new year. It is the Genocide and the erasure of the Palestinian people and their history and culture. Please do not forget about what Israel is doing, do not forgive the Zionist who cheer on and support it. Hold them accountable, make it so they can never forget what they have done and supported, never forget.
Please also take time to remember those the world has lost during this Genocide, the brave reporters who continue to report and share the atrocities committed against them, the Innocent children and babies bombed and caught under the rubble, the fathers and mothers trying to protect their families and loved ones, the brave medical staff who work tirelessly under brutal conditions with little to none medical supplies or sanitary products trying to save lives, the elderly who remember the last Nakba and are forced to relive it again, the disabled and sick people who don’t have the support or medicine they need to survive, the people who had to give birth in a war zone with no painkillers or other necessities, the people who have starved and passed away from easily preventable things because if the lack of aid, the people who have to dig through rubble in hopes of finding their loved ones alive or at least to find their bodies to bury properly, every animal and pet that is suffering or has been murdered under this cruel occupation. Everyone who is fighting against this and is protesting, striking, boycotting, speaking and sharing about this Genocide. Please remember them and keep saying their names, don’t let them become another statistic, another number or name on a list.
Happy New Year and Free Palestine. From the river to the sea Palestine will be free.
#free palestine#free palestine 🇵🇸#i stand with palestine 🇵🇸#ceasfire now#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#rant#anti zionisim#anti occupation#🍉#happy new year#new year#2024#new year 2024#new years eve#never forget
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#endisraelsgenocide#nakba 2023#nakba 2024#palestine#gaza#khan younis#displacement#i stand with palestine 🇵🇸#free gaza#free palestine 🇵🇸#gaza strip#free palestine#gazaunderattack#palestine resources#israel is a terrorist state#israel is committing genocide#Instagram
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Palestine-Lebanon etc Masterlist P2 (mainly Palestine)
*Part 1 is my pinned post
WIP
Instagram (p2)
ahmedeldin / ajmnpr / aljazeeraenglish / cocktailsandcapitalism / daizygedeon / dimitrilascaris / emmasworld.101 / hazami / humantiproject / jewishantizionistnetwork / khaledbeydoun / letstalkpalestine / mansourshouman7 / middleeastmonitor / mohammed_elkhodary88 / muslimi.news / mzamoudi1984 (arabic only)/ nowinpalestine / palestineonaplate / palipulse / salamisarah / savegazaschildren
Tiktok accounts (both posts and reblogs): abdulfalasteen / allie_202_ / anat_internationall / claredalymep / dajia_mack / devotedly.yours / dmvdissenters / dounia_sabah_ / elle_street_photographer / emma_pike_ / hebayousef___ / iamadamadam / iamsbeih / itsaxaaa / leeningtowerofpizza / letstalkfreedom_ / malihaness / mirna_abu / moataz.azaiza / moezeindtb / palestinianpr1ncess / palestinesolidarityuk / ramsimoosa / readingafricana / savegk2 / sincerelyawa / the__sarah__show (in Arabic only) / therealoverloadcomedy / voicesforpalestine / wallyrashid / wizard_bisan1 / zeenaaqel
for some reason tumblr won't let me connect devotedly.yours or moataz.azaiza with their links (bombastic side eye), so here they are down here vvv
--Tiktoks that aren't mainly speaking about Palestine etc, but they are Pro-Palestine: alexjoypucci / celinelilas / clios_world / edwardmliger / jamesissmiling / learncopywritingnow / m0stlysapien / sexualityscholar / simkern / thegoldenbalance
Websites:
Free downloadable Palestinian books
Palestinian Owned Companies
Preserve Gaza's Universities (On X)
breakingthesilence ("Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories.")
Some Free ebooks about Israel&Palestine
Read Quran in English
Palestine Remembered (full documentations of former locations and depopulated villages. it also lists information on Palestinian refugee camps, guestbooks, and the ability to upload pictures. information on each village varies)
Zochrot (organization dedicated to teaching both Palestinians and Israelis about the 1948 nakba, which includes documenting information on villages and even an app. information on villages varies)
The Interactive Encyclopedia for the Palestinian Question's (detailed histories and a map, but doesn't go into the detail of the last two sites, and doesn't have pictures or sources)
All That Remains: The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 (a famous book by Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi which gives a detailed account of what became of 400 different depopulated Palestinian villages.)
For UK: email your local MP
For UK: Contact your MP
secure.everyaction.com (send a pre-made message - or make your own - to US Secretary Antony Blinken -- you can spam message :D)
Contact US Reps by texting "Resist" to 50409 or use resist.bot
Write Your Members of Congress: Sign onto the Ceasefire Now resolution (updated on Dec 6, 2023 - as of Jan 15, 2024)
How to Archive for Palestine
Donation Sites:
Save the Children (UK)
ISRA (UK)
Islamic-Relief UK
Crisis Relief UN
map.org.uk - Medical Aid for Palestinians
Other Palestine Masterlists:
Hussyknee's Masterlist
PaliPunk's Masterlist
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By Yara Hawari Al-Shabaka
Over the last year, Palestine has been irrevocably changed in ways that, for many of us, were once inconceivable.
Since the beginning of the genocide, the Israeli regime has killed over 50,000 Palestinians in Gaza — an estimate provided by the Palestinian Ministry of Health that includes over 6,000 unidentified bodies in the ministry’s possession and an additional 10,000 assumed to be still buried under the rubble. Devastatingly, some will never be retrieved.
Meanwhile, a July article in The Lancet medical journal on the importance of accounting for Gaza’s fatalities argued that a conservative estimate of total deaths in conflict scenarios equated to “four indirect deaths per one direct death.” By this calculation, Israel’s genocide has likely resulted in the loss of over 250,000 Palestinian lives since October 2023.
In addition, Gaza is now home to more than 42 million tonnes of rubble. These ruins include many people’s destroyed homes, businesses and essential public infrastructure.
Relentless Israeli bombing has also released hundreds of thousands of tonnes of toxic dust into the air, with long-lasting and deadly consequences. Eighty percent of schools and universities have been damaged or destroyed, and, for the first time since the Nakba, Palestinian children in Gaza did not begin school this year.
Concurrently, the Israeli regime and its settler community stole a record amount of land across the West Bank over the past 12 months. This theft has been accompanied by increasing violence against Palestinian bodies: Over 700 have been killed, 5,000 injured, and thousands more arrested, bringing the number of Palestinian political prisoners tonearly 10,000.
Further north, in Lebanon, the Israeli regime has expanded its assault and displaced over 1 million people in the space of days and killed over 1,800, including Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah. Israeli bombardments have continued to target neighborhoods and Palestinian refugee camps from the sky, while colonial forces began a ground invasion in early October 2024.
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7th of September 2024
Some days ago, I handed in my essay on commemorative culture. My university is based in Germany, so of course the discussion in the seminar was almost always circling around the topic of German commemoration of the Holocaust – for good reason, looking at alarming calls of German politicians for "closure".
This essay was one of my last assignments for uni before my graduation next year, God willing, and I decided to put the focus of my essay on a different topic, namely the commemoration of the Nakba. My second major being Islamic Studies, I briefly touched the topic several times but never dove into it. I was hesitant at first because writing about this issue as a white European without a background in Political Science and from a moral point of view as was stated in the task felt wrong on many levels. But then I thought that the goal of the essay is to think the topic through, to make up my mind about what others have written, and not to pass definite judgement on populations that are foreign to me.
Through writing the essay I learned that the two collective memories of Israelis and Palestinians around the foundation of the state of Israel in May 1948 and the resulting flight and expulsion of Palestinians from their land known as the Nakba (arabic for 'catastrophe') clash and can be described as contesting.
As many authors argue, Israel is inhibiting public commemoration of the Nakba, even banning the term 'nakba' from school books. That is because a recognition of the harm done to Palestinians would raise the obligation for repair efforts, f. e. a right to return. At the same time, it becomes clear from interviews that few Palestinians acknowledge the extent of the Jewish suffering (centuries of persecution culminating in the Holocaust) preceding the founding of the state of Israel. This might be due to the deliberation that a recognition of the Jewish suffering might constitute a moral ground for the foundation of the state of Israel.
Where commemoration and memory are contested, they must be protected and defended. This is the basic premise of the so-called "imperative of remembrance", the moral imperative to remember and commemorate historical events, particularly those of great tragedy or injustice. The imperative of remembrance is widely discussed in context of Holocaust education in Germany but extends to other topics such as Nakba commemoration.
The collective memories of Israelis and Palestinians regarding the founding of the State of Israel and the Nakba tend to suppress or forget the suffering of the other. At this point, I argue, it is a moral imperative to not only remember one's own suffering but also the suffering of the other, as this is demanded by the moral duty to respect the dignity of the other. For this reason, I believe it is right to remember the Holocaust when talking about the Nakba and to remember the Nakba when talking about the founding of the state of Israel.
The ethical implications of an 'imperative of remembrance' are far-reaching and raise the question of how memory culture should be ethically shaped. In my essay I proposed several points of orientation: the contentcommemorated should be based on critical research and include diverse perspectives; participation to commemorative events should be fundamentally open to all people, regardless of how directly they are affected; and reconciliation should not be the goal of commemorative culture, but rather the recognition and reparation of injustice and suffering, as well as the moral education of people. Reconciliation can be hoped to be found on the way.
Little disclaimer here, for this short essay I could not dive into new developments since the 7th of October 2023 and the literature I that was available to me is about 10 years old already.
Also, I would love to hear how you / people you know commemorate historical events and if you / they face opposition.
Literature:
English:
Roberts, Jo. Contested Land, Contested Memory. Israel’s Jews and Arabs and the Ghost of Catastrophe. Toronto: Dundurn 2013.
Sorek, Tamir. Palestinian Commemoration in Israel. Calendars, Monuments, and Martyrs. Stanford: Stanford University Press 2015.
German:
Assmann, Aleida. Das neue Unbehagen an der Erinnerungskultur. Eine Intervention. München: o. V. 2021.
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Here are ten sources from different outlet’s covering Israel’s terrorism, and not just from Iaraeli outlets like the ones you post. You are a fucking hateful bigot with the curiosity of a rock, you claim to love arguing with terfs but happily chat it up with transphobic fascists because you are just that rotten to the core.
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/unicef-says-over-13000-children-killed-gaza-israel-offensive-2024-03-17/
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/dozens-killed-gaza-aid-queue-overall-death-toll-passes-30000-2024-02-29/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/11/03/israel-nakba-history-1948/
You fucking moron.
Holy shit
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