Mohammed el-Kurd's new book sheds light on the ways in which Palestinians are forced by the panopticon of the West's gaze to censor and curate their true identities.
I think people especially younger people tuned into this genocide on their computers, and visually experiencing the sheer horror Israel has implemented and continues to implement will never be forgotten, nor will it be worthy of forgiveness. They are not seeing Palestinians being slaughtered, but men, women, children, and babies, gunned down, blown up, starved and bombed. People will come to know that Israel ignored warnings of a impending attack by Hamas and killed hundreds of their own, and used the attack as an excuse to implement a genocide, a long time in the making.
I also want to say that I don't think the only reason for the crackdown on student protests has to do with protecting Israel. We, America, were very complicit in this genocide, and are also very culpable. We'ree also protecting US!
I'm wondering if other people have noticed that over 23,000 U.S.A. citizens have gone to Israel to fight in their genocidal war against the Palestinians. Isn't it illegal to join the military of another country to possibly give your life for the political ends of another government? Anti-war protesters in the USA are losing jobs, being expelled and deported for being against the Israeli war. Why aren't the Americans volunteering for the Israeli genocide being tried for treason, or at least being stopped at the border an sent back to Israel and having their U.S. citizenship revoked? Over 23,000 Americans working for Israel - WHO ARE THEY?
Us ! We needed to be in the streets by the millions but largely stayed home on the couch, watching PBS, listening to NPR, who told us that Israel is / was / continues to be the victim. Then the D's asked us to vote for them - and here we are with President Trauma. I know very few activists in Blutopian Santa Fe.
Like my question above, define "activists". The University students (like Columbia University) who pretend to protest? My question is: Why don't all these students resign from that University in mass? In my opinion the halls of that institution should echo with only the voices of the administrators themselves. I hear nobody discussing this real activist tact. Why in hell would you want to give one red cent to a University that supports the genocidal Zionist regime in Israel and will not stand up for their own students exercising their first amendment rights? I recommend the entire student body transfer to a schools that have a moral and civil backbone. If there are none, then go to work and support businesses, politicians, and institutions that do. Your wallet is your most vital and civil weapon in an (allegedly) democratic and capitalist society.
Well, if you need that defined, I doubt if it includes you.
Israel will not restrain herself. Neither would South Africa's apartheid regime in the last century. Only by concerted actions among millions around the world --here, as in the case of SA -- boycotting, divesting, sanctioning, isolating the fascist state on the world stage, will Israel even consider justice for Palestine, the same way SA finally had to. And those millions engaged in BDS and other forms of solidarity with Palestinians? That would be, and will be, "us".
"concerted actions among millions around the world". Ha ha; such delusion. I'll believe it when I see it. The only concerted actions around the world is by oligarchs who pay for that concert. And the masses who dream (most likely folks like you) of oppose it...just a petty, ignorant, and lazy lot of suckers who are all too easily controlled with Bread and Circus.
I think people especially younger people tuned into this genocide on their computers, and visually experiencing the sheer horror Israel has implemented and continues to implement will never be forgotten, nor will it be worthy of forgiveness. They are not seeing Palestinians being slaughtered, but men, women, children, and babies, gunned down, blown up, starved and bombed. People will come to know that Israel ignored warnings of a impending attack by Hamas and killed hundreds of their own, and used the attack as an excuse to implement a genocide, a long time in the making.
I also want to say that I don't think the only reason for the crackdown on student protests has to do with protecting Israel. We, America, were very complicit in this genocide, and are also very culpable. We'ree also protecting US!
Thank you Chris. Such an important interview. I and hopefully many others owe it to Mohammed to buy and read and support his book! If you know
where it’s being sold in US, please post
if possible.
Linda
Haymarket Books if you need to shop online, otherwise in local indie bookstores everywhere.
I'm wondering if other people have noticed that over 23,000 U.S.A. citizens have gone to Israel to fight in their genocidal war against the Palestinians. Isn't it illegal to join the military of another country to possibly give your life for the political ends of another government? Anti-war protesters in the USA are losing jobs, being expelled and deported for being against the Israeli war. Why aren't the Americans volunteering for the Israeli genocide being tried for treason, or at least being stopped at the border an sent back to Israel and having their U.S. citizenship revoked? Over 23,000 Americans working for Israel - WHO ARE THEY?
Zionism is racist, supremacist. It must be eradicated. Our world is so dark .
Great interview, thank you Chris & Mohammed 🙏
And there's nothing to stay the hand of Israel.
Well, there's us.
Us ! We needed to be in the streets by the millions but largely stayed home on the couch, watching PBS, listening to NPR, who told us that Israel is / was / continues to be the victim. Then the D's asked us to vote for them - and here we are with President Trauma. I know very few activists in Blutopian Santa Fe.
Like my question above, define "activists". The University students (like Columbia University) who pretend to protest? My question is: Why don't all these students resign from that University in mass? In my opinion the halls of that institution should echo with only the voices of the administrators themselves. I hear nobody discussing this real activist tact. Why in hell would you want to give one red cent to a University that supports the genocidal Zionist regime in Israel and will not stand up for their own students exercising their first amendment rights? I recommend the entire student body transfer to a schools that have a moral and civil backbone. If there are none, then go to work and support businesses, politicians, and institutions that do. Your wallet is your most vital and civil weapon in an (allegedly) democratic and capitalist society.
Define "us".
Well, if you need that defined, I doubt if it includes you.
Israel will not restrain herself. Neither would South Africa's apartheid regime in the last century. Only by concerted actions among millions around the world --here, as in the case of SA -- boycotting, divesting, sanctioning, isolating the fascist state on the world stage, will Israel even consider justice for Palestine, the same way SA finally had to. And those millions engaged in BDS and other forms of solidarity with Palestinians? That would be, and will be, "us".
"concerted actions among millions around the world". Ha ha; such delusion. I'll believe it when I see it. The only concerted actions around the world is by oligarchs who pay for that concert. And the masses who dream (most likely folks like you) of oppose it...just a petty, ignorant, and lazy lot of suckers who are all too easily controlled with Bread and Circus.