The Ukrainian flag flies aloft Downing Street, while the Palestinian flag is raised on the street below by the people, in a testament to the hierarchy of life within the imperial core
People keep talking about students acting like consumers, well universities are also happily engaging with that relationship, taking money without any due diligence
Motaz explains so eloquently, amongst everything else, why describing Palestinian journalists and health workers, etc as “heroes” and “resilient” is dangerous. They are people like us, they’re tired and scared as hell, it is not our job to glorify them to relieve our consciences
وكأن الهدنة جسراً تسير فيه نحو ضفة الموت الأخرى
تنتظر مصيرك لينالك ما نال الآخرين
هدنة لا شيء فيها يشبه الهدنة
فلا وصلتك مساعدات ولا استطعت حتى شراء ما يلزمك لأنه غير موجود
تستمر في معاناتك بينما ينعتك الآخرون بالصامد القوي فيرون بذلك انك اسطورة فترتاح ضمائرهم
وتصدق أنت تلك
And likely shared with state intelligence services and the police as well as data management companies such as Palantir who are currently involved in aiding and abetting genocide in 🇵🇸
Every Palestinian health-worker in Gaza has more integrity in their little fingernail than the collective countless swathes of medics and HCPs and their institutions in the global north utterly silent in the face of the destruction of an entire health infrastructure
Today, Dr. Alloh of Al-Shifa Hospital & his family were martyred after an Israeli missile struck a house near the hospital where they were sheltering. Glory to him & to all our healthcare workers martyred. May every healer of the Palestinians be recalled at the hour of liberation
I have cried so many times watching that video of Palestinian children pleading their humanity in English. I have never seen a situation where children have had to beg to be recognised as worthy of life. How unbelievably cruel the world has been to the Palestinian people
