When I accepted the Tafik Diab Prize for my writing on the genocide in Gaza in Cairo on June 10 I explained why the cartoonist Joe Sacco and I are planning to do our next book together on Gaza. Written speech: I would like to start with a story that happened to me in Gaza on October 5, 2000. One day I was working on a report at Natzarim (Jewish settlement). There were Palestinian boys near me. The boys threw rocks towards the Israeli army. A soldier shot one of the boys — and the boy died. Four boys each lifted up a limb and we ran. The incident aftected me to such an extent that I did not shave for three weeks. After three weeks, I went to visit the boy’s house to meet his family. I told his mother I was with her son when he was killed. The mother told me that when her younger son heard that his brother had been killed he went into the kitchen, and then he left the house. After ten minutes she asked her husband where her son had gone. They went out to look for him and saw him in the street with a knife in his hand.
Thank you Chris. This is no different than the Holocaust. The fact that the Israelis are perpetrating these crimes is unconscionable. In fact it is surreal. You wouldn’t think that Israel could sink to these atrocities after WWII. IMAGINE (Lennon)🥲
They didn’t sink to these atrocities after WWII. The sunk to these atrocities in the early part of the 20th century, when all of this was planned. The manifestation and realization of their program was enabled by the sympathies engendered by the Holocaust. I share with Norman Finklestein, and many others, the experience of being descended from Holocaust survivors whose destinies were intertwined with Zionism, but who understood that the tenets of that movement were in direct opposition to the philosophy of the Jewish faith, to humanist philosophy, and in the most general way, to justice itself. As more people are understanding every day, nothing is more antisemitic than Zionism. It’s a Mobius strip, which turns in on itself and cannot be resolved by logic.
I recently attended the Munk Debates in Toronto to explore this very issue. The debate was heated and I believe over represented by Zionist Supporters. If you get a chance I would recommend watching the debate
Ilam Pappe comes also from a family that had to scape Europe to avoid certain death. They settled in Palestine and now he is a very respected Israeli historian. I just read his book "Ten myths about Israel" where he mentions the difficulty the initial Zionists had to sell their horrible idea to the majority of Jews in Europe and America. Following are some quotes from that book:
"Before that schism, the Reform movement in both Germany and the United States had provided a strong and unanimous case against Zionism. In Germany, they publicly rejected the idea of a Jewish nation and proclaimed themselves “Germans of the Mosaic faith" the idea “that Judea is the home of the Jew—an idea which ‘un-homes’ [sic] the Jew all over the wide earth.” Another leader of the movement at the end of the nineteenth century, Isaac Mayer Wise, often ridiculed Zionist leaders such as Herzl, comparing them to charlatan alchemists claiming to contribute to science." In 1885, another Reformist conference stated: “We consider ourselves no longer a nation, but a religious community, and we therefore expect neither a return to Palestine, nor a sacrificial worship under the sons of Aaron, nor the restoration of any laws concerning the Jewish state.” The third critique on Zionism in its early days came from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish establishment. To this day, many ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities vehemently oppose Zionism, although they are much smaller than they were in the late nineteenth century and some of them moved to Israel and are now part of its political system. Nonetheless, as in the past, they constitute yet another non-Zionist way of being Jewish. When Zionism made its first appearance in Europe, many traditional rabbis in fact forbade their followers from having anything to do with Zionist activists. They viewed Zionism as meddling with God’s will to retain the Jews in exile until the coming of the Messiah. They totally rejected the idea that Jews should do all they can to end the “Exile.” Instead, they had to wait for God’s word on this and in the meantime practice the traditional way of life."
Unfortunately the Jewish faith , like Christianity here, was highjacked and debased. Continuing with Pappe:
"Israeli educational textbooks now carry the same message of the right to the land based on a biblical promise. According to a letter sent by the education ministry in 2014 to all schools in Israel: “the Bible provides the cultural infrastructure of the state of Israel, in it our right to the land is anchored.” Bible studies are now a crucial and expanded component of the curriculum—with a particular focus on the Bible as recording an ancient history that justifies the claim to the land. The biblical stories and the national lessons that can be learned from them are fused together with the study of the Holocaust and of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. There is a direct line from this 2014 letter back to the evidence given by David Ben-Gurion in 1937 to the Royal Peel Commission (the British inquiry set up to try to find a solution to the emerging conflict). In the public discussions on the future of Palestine, Ben-Gurion waved a copy of the Bible at the members of the committee, shouting: “This is our Qushan [the Ottoman land registry proof], our right to Palestine does not come from the Mandate Charter, the Bible is our Mandate Charter.”
I cannot think of a better person to chronicle this ongoing genocide. You speak so passionately, but too with accuracy for the plight of the Palestinians. I look forward to your book! (I wish its publication was not necessary.)
I was watching footage of two Palestinian boys playing soccer in front of their house. They weren't very old - maybe ten or eleven. Their house was near the Israeli border. A sniper shot one of the boys. All they were doing was playing. I appreciate your sharing this. I shall hold this deep inside my heart.
Good point. Karma is a thing yet the system is at fault. Being "good Jewish citizens" and being brainwashing and killing young without much life experience, they fell nto it. They start them young. The truely evil enjoy murdering innocents. There is no upside to war, and certainly not to genocide. Everyone loses their humanity.
The People of the World are beginning to reject their leaders who act without moral or ethical strength. There is so much work to do. We can no longer afford hate and violence. We simply can’t afford hate and violence! It’s got to stop. The sheer stupidity and waste has become suicidal. We must rebuild our world for the survival of everyone and every living thing. We as a species have the intelligence and compassion to do this. In love, in Sisterhood & Brotherhood! This is not a choice, it is a necessity.
Thank you Chris. Your reporting on the genocide is invaluable as the Jewish run media in the US cannot be relied upon for the truth. In fact, the way the Jews act in Gaza gives credence to the holocaust deniers such as Ursula Haversack. If the Jews were really victims of a "holocaust" they would never do what they are doing in Gaza. The actions of the Jews in Gaza speaks volumes about their hatred for the goyim via the Talmud.
Matt, IMHO, it is not a matter of what you call "actions", but, 'me thinks', simply the New Testament vs. the Old Testament --- just as SCJ's Thomas is an 'effin', textualist, rather than a contemporary, modern, and even visionary thinking Judge.
I'm not a Biblical Scholar [although, I went to the "Mount Hermon" prep school for three years with required minor in Religion] --- but, IMHO2, I don't think Jesus ever showed any violent temper other than "overturning the money changer's table's"!
HELL!, what we have now is a supposedly "Free Speech" TV American Country, which is clearly being run only by about 1000 Billionaire Bastard effin LOOTERS & LIARS!
My highest rated, ad-hoc, focus-group tested, double-sided, and Bernie Sanders shouted approval sign simply says:
Matt, my childhood friends had two "Great Aunties" who were holocaust survivors. As a child, I saw the prison camp tattoo on one of their forearms. At dinner that night, the other started happily recounting a story about her childhood in Vienna, then suddenly paused and began weeping, saying "They're both dead of course, but they were such nice boys." The reason that I put "Great Aunties" in quotes is because they weren't blood relations. My friend's grandmother was a gentile, and best friends with these Jewish women. When she died, these women took in her orphaned daughter (my friend's mother) and raised her as a gentile. So much for all the absurd Holocaust denier puke.
Which is why it is so shocking that Jews in Israel (and Zionist Jews in US) are unwilling to admit their role in the Palestinian genocide. I grew up with Jews always saying "never forget" and yet here we are...they have forgotten already?
Matt, you deny the Jewish holocaust out of one side of your mouth, and then cite it as a basis for this accusation out of the other side of your mouth. You should make up your mind if you want your arguments to have integrity.
This said, I am shocked and horrified by the Jewish state committing genocide against the Palestinians for the very reasons you state. How many Palestinians who survive the Israeli-inflicted holocaust will say the same things and weep about the deaths and injuries done to their childhood friends in days to come?
Very moving. You, Chris, are one of the true heroes of common humanity. I left the United States during the Nixon-Vietnam years. Already I could not stand to be somehow part of a nation that would stand for the kinds of actions in which the U.S. was so deeply involved—indeed, were the motivators of the events. But still, although I closely followed the situation in Palestine with horror and disgust, I never dreamed that that the United States would actually perpetrate a genocide, much less that such actions would be cheered on by the governments of supposedly civilized countries, like France. (I never supposed that the actions and attitudes of any government of Britain would be any better). But now I realize, at a very advanced age, that the United States has been perpetrating genocides all along, and its political leadership simply view that as "business as usual". What else can you call what they did in places like Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam? Pushing aside the term "genocide", which is a term of American political rhetoric designed to make less legal than it already is what others do, I would say that the sin of it is no different than the sin of mass murder and mayhem. Mass murder and mayhem are the calling cards of the United States of America and of all of the imperial nations of the world—or wannabes, like Hitler's Germany. Among those, France, Britain, Japan, Belgium and the Netherlands loom large. In these activities, their governments have most often been supported by their general populations. But the current Israeli project is evidently too much for the American public to swallow—as they swallowed Vietnam, for example. And it's too much for many populations—most, I think, other than the Israelis and pockets of lunatic Zionists in parts of the Western world. In short, all this has woken me up to that fact that "genocide"—systematic murder and mayhem, if you're hesitant about the word—is nothing new, has been ongoing all during my lifetime unrecognized for what it was, namely the cruelist and most inhumane and destructive expression of the racism that lies so deeply in the American soul.
Yes, we have been mass murdering people around the world for a long time and now we are the leaders of terrorism, but my definition of genocide is the intent of eliminating an ethnic group of people like the Jews by the Nazis or now the Palestinians by the Zionists.
Here we are, 24 years later, and the horrific violence that you witnessed in 2000 has been multiplied over 15,000 times.
The West knew this all along. Every day of those 24+ years that every penny of support for the racist regime in Tel Aviv would be used for more death + destruction in Palestine. More that the scale of this evil, it is the duration of it all that truly shocks me.
Thank you for being CH. Years ago, I heard a report from Amy Goodman about a Palestinian mother of two-teenage boys, a university professor, who was preparing to become a suicide bomber. It blew my mind. It was beyond my understanding - until now. There comes a time when enough is enough and we are way past that time. Norman Finkelstein spoke of his then elderly mother saying (with regard to the treatment of Jews around the holocaust) - ' if we're going to die, if they are going to kill us, why not take a few of them with us.' How it took as long for Palestinians to get to Oct.7th is rather amazing. I now have this image in my head of me as a suicide bomber, hand on the switch, in a room full of the perpetrators (hopefully the higher ups calling the shots) pushing the detonate button with clarity of purpose.
Better than dreams of revenge, support BDS which if implemented will finish the apartheid. Oh, and don't forget at the polls which politicians have been helping the genocide.
Support BDS if implemented? Is BDS even legal in this Land of the Casi Libre? No ! Our duopoly political system isn't keen on BDS or standing up to Zionist Israel because - THEY own US. Our political system makes the genocide in Gaza possible. We are told our resistance is futile - on college campuses and every day on MSM - we are told Israel has a right to defend themselves - and to kill every last Palestinian alive right now to prove it. Those dying on the ground can't wait for BDS and some of them fight back with their sticks and stone and bottle rockets, aimed at their captors. How long would you watch it happen to you? I hope we never get to that point just like I hoped we'd never get to THIS point. Be well Julio.
Yes, in this land of Casi Libre many governors and legislators have banished BDS due to the pressure from their owners but, for me, this the proof that BDS is effective since it scares them so much. Besides, we are only Casi Libres, and still, we can vote out those bribed politicians and, in the meantime, write to all of them asking to support BDS. Other than that Julio Santos, the nobody, can't do anything else.
Israel can never erase them from existence or from history or from our hearts. Not any more. Your promise, implicit already in all your work for the Gazans/Palestinians, and the growing chorus of voices, of witnesses, all around the world has made that impossible. They live in us, each and every Gazan/Palestinian - those whose stories we know and those we may never know. Thank you so much for this heartbreaking story, today, of these boys and their family and for the important work you and Joe Sacco are about to begin. Know that you will both be surrounded with love and the deepest respect and gratitude by all of us in the present and in the future that that work will touch.
I was raised around family friends of diverse ethnic backgrounds, yet in high school I realized that I had absorbed a common American discomfort with Muslims, Middle Easterners, and North Africans. I choose to acquire cultural exposure through traditional music and its beauty immediately opened my heart. Prejudice is a product of ignorance, as many wise and understanding PoC say. Chris, by making the political personal, your stories can create deeper understanding and open hearts.
I was so impressed by Clint Smith's book, "How the Word is Passed", that I sent him a quick post:
Dear, Clint,
Your deep research and your wonderful exposure of truths about racist treatment of enslaved Blacks, as well as the treatment of all of, "we the American people", inspires me to ask you if you might have any interest in taking up the banner of another offensive attack to all American's regarding political crimes against humanity --- causes me to ask:
What might you think of a next revealing book which might be titled something like this: "The Republican Assassination of JFK"??
Love, and best to you for all that you have already done to reveal why Texan, LBJ, was reported to be crying in the rest-room of the now titled Jet, Air Force One, that he took back to DC, while he said, "their going to get us all"?
Thank you Chris. This is no different than the Holocaust. The fact that the Israelis are perpetrating these crimes is unconscionable. In fact it is surreal. You wouldn’t think that Israel could sink to these atrocities after WWII. IMAGINE (Lennon)🥲
They didn’t sink to these atrocities after WWII. The sunk to these atrocities in the early part of the 20th century, when all of this was planned. The manifestation and realization of their program was enabled by the sympathies engendered by the Holocaust. I share with Norman Finklestein, and many others, the experience of being descended from Holocaust survivors whose destinies were intertwined with Zionism, but who understood that the tenets of that movement were in direct opposition to the philosophy of the Jewish faith, to humanist philosophy, and in the most general way, to justice itself. As more people are understanding every day, nothing is more antisemitic than Zionism. It’s a Mobius strip, which turns in on itself and cannot be resolved by logic.
I recently attended the Munk Debates in Toronto to explore this very issue. The debate was heated and I believe over represented by Zionist Supporters. If you get a chance I would recommend watching the debate
Ilam Pappe comes also from a family that had to scape Europe to avoid certain death. They settled in Palestine and now he is a very respected Israeli historian. I just read his book "Ten myths about Israel" where he mentions the difficulty the initial Zionists had to sell their horrible idea to the majority of Jews in Europe and America. Following are some quotes from that book:
"Before that schism, the Reform movement in both Germany and the United States had provided a strong and unanimous case against Zionism. In Germany, they publicly rejected the idea of a Jewish nation and proclaimed themselves “Germans of the Mosaic faith" the idea “that Judea is the home of the Jew—an idea which ‘un-homes’ [sic] the Jew all over the wide earth.” Another leader of the movement at the end of the nineteenth century, Isaac Mayer Wise, often ridiculed Zionist leaders such as Herzl, comparing them to charlatan alchemists claiming to contribute to science." In 1885, another Reformist conference stated: “We consider ourselves no longer a nation, but a religious community, and we therefore expect neither a return to Palestine, nor a sacrificial worship under the sons of Aaron, nor the restoration of any laws concerning the Jewish state.” The third critique on Zionism in its early days came from the ultra-Orthodox Jewish establishment. To this day, many ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities vehemently oppose Zionism, although they are much smaller than they were in the late nineteenth century and some of them moved to Israel and are now part of its political system. Nonetheless, as in the past, they constitute yet another non-Zionist way of being Jewish. When Zionism made its first appearance in Europe, many traditional rabbis in fact forbade their followers from having anything to do with Zionist activists. They viewed Zionism as meddling with God’s will to retain the Jews in exile until the coming of the Messiah. They totally rejected the idea that Jews should do all they can to end the “Exile.” Instead, they had to wait for God’s word on this and in the meantime practice the traditional way of life."
Unfortunately the Jewish faith , like Christianity here, was highjacked and debased. Continuing with Pappe:
"Israeli educational textbooks now carry the same message of the right to the land based on a biblical promise. According to a letter sent by the education ministry in 2014 to all schools in Israel: “the Bible provides the cultural infrastructure of the state of Israel, in it our right to the land is anchored.” Bible studies are now a crucial and expanded component of the curriculum—with a particular focus on the Bible as recording an ancient history that justifies the claim to the land. The biblical stories and the national lessons that can be learned from them are fused together with the study of the Holocaust and of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948. There is a direct line from this 2014 letter back to the evidence given by David Ben-Gurion in 1937 to the Royal Peel Commission (the British inquiry set up to try to find a solution to the emerging conflict). In the public discussions on the future of Palestine, Ben-Gurion waved a copy of the Bible at the members of the committee, shouting: “This is our Qushan [the Ottoman land registry proof], our right to Palestine does not come from the Mandate Charter, the Bible is our Mandate Charter.”
I cannot think of a better person to chronicle this ongoing genocide. You speak so passionately, but too with accuracy for the plight of the Palestinians. I look forward to your book! (I wish its publication was not necessary.)
I was watching footage of two Palestinian boys playing soccer in front of their house. They weren't very old - maybe ten or eleven. Their house was near the Israeli border. A sniper shot one of the boys. All they were doing was playing. I appreciate your sharing this. I shall hold this deep inside my heart.
Blood won't wash off. After leaving the IDC soldiers have breakdowns. They can't live with themselves.
My great hope, Every one of the them sits in a dark room, drooling, and mumbling in a corner.
And then, seeks redemption by whistleblowing the secret deeds he may have known about the IDF.
Good point. Karma is a thing yet the system is at fault. Being "good Jewish citizens" and being brainwashing and killing young without much life experience, they fell nto it. They start them young. The truely evil enjoy murdering innocents. There is no upside to war, and certainly not to genocide. Everyone loses their humanity.
It’s a vicious circle. Only love will conquer hate. Hate will always bring more hate onto this world until we all are merely a pile of dust.
„Is Real“ computer art 3 min video: https://youtu.be/dP808Qc9lgM
We should NEVER underestimate the power of Telling the Story. You go, Chris!
where ever you go Chris I'll be patiently waiting for your words.
Aquene
The People of the World are beginning to reject their leaders who act without moral or ethical strength. There is so much work to do. We can no longer afford hate and violence. We simply can’t afford hate and violence! It’s got to stop. The sheer stupidity and waste has become suicidal. We must rebuild our world for the survival of everyone and every living thing. We as a species have the intelligence and compassion to do this. In love, in Sisterhood & Brotherhood! This is not a choice, it is a necessity.
Thank you Chris. Your reporting on the genocide is invaluable as the Jewish run media in the US cannot be relied upon for the truth. In fact, the way the Jews act in Gaza gives credence to the holocaust deniers such as Ursula Haversack. If the Jews were really victims of a "holocaust" they would never do what they are doing in Gaza. The actions of the Jews in Gaza speaks volumes about their hatred for the goyim via the Talmud.
Matt, IMHO, it is not a matter of what you call "actions", but, 'me thinks', simply the New Testament vs. the Old Testament --- just as SCJ's Thomas is an 'effin', textualist, rather than a contemporary, modern, and even visionary thinking Judge.
I'm not a Biblical Scholar [although, I went to the "Mount Hermon" prep school for three years with required minor in Religion] --- but, IMHO2, I don't think Jesus ever showed any violent temper other than "overturning the money changer's table's"!
HELL!, what we have now is a supposedly "Free Speech" TV American Country, which is clearly being run only by about 1000 Billionaire Bastard effin LOOTERS & LIARS!
My highest rated, ad-hoc, focus-group tested, double-sided, and Bernie Sanders shouted approval sign simply says:
INEQUALITY
CAUSED BY
BILLIONAIRE
BASTARDS
(and on the other side)
LOVE
OVER
VIOLENT
EMPIRE
Matt, my childhood friends had two "Great Aunties" who were holocaust survivors. As a child, I saw the prison camp tattoo on one of their forearms. At dinner that night, the other started happily recounting a story about her childhood in Vienna, then suddenly paused and began weeping, saying "They're both dead of course, but they were such nice boys." The reason that I put "Great Aunties" in quotes is because they weren't blood relations. My friend's grandmother was a gentile, and best friends with these Jewish women. When she died, these women took in her orphaned daughter (my friend's mother) and raised her as a gentile. So much for all the absurd Holocaust denier puke.
Which is why it is so shocking that Jews in Israel (and Zionist Jews in US) are unwilling to admit their role in the Palestinian genocide. I grew up with Jews always saying "never forget" and yet here we are...they have forgotten already?
Matt, you deny the Jewish holocaust out of one side of your mouth, and then cite it as a basis for this accusation out of the other side of your mouth. You should make up your mind if you want your arguments to have integrity.
This said, I am shocked and horrified by the Jewish state committing genocide against the Palestinians for the very reasons you state. How many Palestinians who survive the Israeli-inflicted holocaust will say the same things and weep about the deaths and injuries done to their childhood friends in days to come?
Read my posting again. I never denied the holocaust happened. I pointed out that the way the Jews are acting gives credibility to the deniers.
Very moving. You, Chris, are one of the true heroes of common humanity. I left the United States during the Nixon-Vietnam years. Already I could not stand to be somehow part of a nation that would stand for the kinds of actions in which the U.S. was so deeply involved—indeed, were the motivators of the events. But still, although I closely followed the situation in Palestine with horror and disgust, I never dreamed that that the United States would actually perpetrate a genocide, much less that such actions would be cheered on by the governments of supposedly civilized countries, like France. (I never supposed that the actions and attitudes of any government of Britain would be any better). But now I realize, at a very advanced age, that the United States has been perpetrating genocides all along, and its political leadership simply view that as "business as usual". What else can you call what they did in places like Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam? Pushing aside the term "genocide", which is a term of American political rhetoric designed to make less legal than it already is what others do, I would say that the sin of it is no different than the sin of mass murder and mayhem. Mass murder and mayhem are the calling cards of the United States of America and of all of the imperial nations of the world—or wannabes, like Hitler's Germany. Among those, France, Britain, Japan, Belgium and the Netherlands loom large. In these activities, their governments have most often been supported by their general populations. But the current Israeli project is evidently too much for the American public to swallow—as they swallowed Vietnam, for example. And it's too much for many populations—most, I think, other than the Israelis and pockets of lunatic Zionists in parts of the Western world. In short, all this has woken me up to that fact that "genocide"—systematic murder and mayhem, if you're hesitant about the word—is nothing new, has been ongoing all during my lifetime unrecognized for what it was, namely the cruelist and most inhumane and destructive expression of the racism that lies so deeply in the American soul.
Yes, we have been mass murdering people around the world for a long time and now we are the leaders of terrorism, but my definition of genocide is the intent of eliminating an ethnic group of people like the Jews by the Nazis or now the Palestinians by the Zionists.
Here we are, 24 years later, and the horrific violence that you witnessed in 2000 has been multiplied over 15,000 times.
The West knew this all along. Every day of those 24+ years that every penny of support for the racist regime in Tel Aviv would be used for more death + destruction in Palestine. More that the scale of this evil, it is the duration of it all that truly shocks me.
Hopefully the support will finish soon
While you and Joe are working on this very worthy project, please do your best to stay safe. You are needed now more than ever by so many. Godspeed.
Thank you for being CH. Years ago, I heard a report from Amy Goodman about a Palestinian mother of two-teenage boys, a university professor, who was preparing to become a suicide bomber. It blew my mind. It was beyond my understanding - until now. There comes a time when enough is enough and we are way past that time. Norman Finkelstein spoke of his then elderly mother saying (with regard to the treatment of Jews around the holocaust) - ' if we're going to die, if they are going to kill us, why not take a few of them with us.' How it took as long for Palestinians to get to Oct.7th is rather amazing. I now have this image in my head of me as a suicide bomber, hand on the switch, in a room full of the perpetrators (hopefully the higher ups calling the shots) pushing the detonate button with clarity of purpose.
Better than dreams of revenge, support BDS which if implemented will finish the apartheid. Oh, and don't forget at the polls which politicians have been helping the genocide.
Support BDS if implemented? Is BDS even legal in this Land of the Casi Libre? No ! Our duopoly political system isn't keen on BDS or standing up to Zionist Israel because - THEY own US. Our political system makes the genocide in Gaza possible. We are told our resistance is futile - on college campuses and every day on MSM - we are told Israel has a right to defend themselves - and to kill every last Palestinian alive right now to prove it. Those dying on the ground can't wait for BDS and some of them fight back with their sticks and stone and bottle rockets, aimed at their captors. How long would you watch it happen to you? I hope we never get to that point just like I hoped we'd never get to THIS point. Be well Julio.
Yes, in this land of Casi Libre many governors and legislators have banished BDS due to the pressure from their owners but, for me, this the proof that BDS is effective since it scares them so much. Besides, we are only Casi Libres, and still, we can vote out those bribed politicians and, in the meantime, write to all of them asking to support BDS. Other than that Julio Santos, the nobody, can't do anything else.
Israel can never erase them from existence or from history or from our hearts. Not any more. Your promise, implicit already in all your work for the Gazans/Palestinians, and the growing chorus of voices, of witnesses, all around the world has made that impossible. They live in us, each and every Gazan/Palestinian - those whose stories we know and those we may never know. Thank you so much for this heartbreaking story, today, of these boys and their family and for the important work you and Joe Sacco are about to begin. Know that you will both be surrounded with love and the deepest respect and gratitude by all of us in the present and in the future that that work will touch.
I was raised around family friends of diverse ethnic backgrounds, yet in high school I realized that I had absorbed a common American discomfort with Muslims, Middle Easterners, and North Africans. I choose to acquire cultural exposure through traditional music and its beauty immediately opened my heart. Prejudice is a product of ignorance, as many wise and understanding PoC say. Chris, by making the political personal, your stories can create deeper understanding and open hearts.
We love you Chris❤ I bought
Joe Sacco's The Footnotes in Gaza. Hope to be able to buy the one co- authoured by you.
Dear Chris,
I was so impressed by Clint Smith's book, "How the Word is Passed", that I sent him a quick post:
Dear, Clint,
Your deep research and your wonderful exposure of truths about racist treatment of enslaved Blacks, as well as the treatment of all of, "we the American people", inspires me to ask you if you might have any interest in taking up the banner of another offensive attack to all American's regarding political crimes against humanity --- causes me to ask:
What might you think of a next revealing book which might be titled something like this: "The Republican Assassination of JFK"??
Love, and best to you for all that you have already done to reveal why Texan, LBJ, was reported to be crying in the rest-room of the now titled Jet, Air Force One, that he took back to DC, while he said, "their going to get us all"?
"THEY'RE GOING TO KILL ALL OF US"
INEQUALITY
CAUSED BY
BILLIONAIRE
BASTARDS
(and on the other side)
LOVE
OVER
VIOLENT
TRUMP