by Abier Khatib, keyboard warrior and pro-Palestinian activist New York, March 10 – Folks, we have a problem: all that online engagement on Twitter and Instagram, promoting our narrative and debating against Zios has yet to produce the desired effect. ...
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Feed SubscriptionBDS Aside, What EU-Sponsored Causes Can We Pretend Are Grassroots Palestinian Initiatives?
by Josep Borell, European Commission Foreign Policy Chair Brussels, March 2 – My favorite foreign policy fiction that everyone pretends true involves the underwriting, support, and guidance for projects that ostensibly grew out of organic, local efforts, when in fact ...
Read More »Debunking The Feeble Narrative On Which I’ve Constructed My National Identity Is Racist! Sexist? Transphobic? Help Me Out Here.
By Hussein Abubakr, Palestinian activist Gaza City, February 21 – It’s tough to have one’s sense of self challenged. Most people’s reflexive reaction involves anger, perhaps a threat – or more than a threat – of violence, since a sense ...
Read More »People Keep Seeing Through My Jew-Hate Disguised As Hate For Jewish Security
By Marc Lamont Hill, activist Washington, February 10 – I’m a proud anti-racist, a fighter for social justice who seeks to uphold the rights and narrative of oppressed minorities. As such, I carry heightened sensitivity to accusations that I express, or ...
Read More »My Name Is Mahmoud, And I Like To Cosplay As Indigenous
by Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian National Authority; Chairman, Fatah; Chairman, Palestine Liberation Organization Ramallah, February 1 – Nice to meet you all! My name is Mahmoud, and my favorite pastime involves assuming the trappings of an ancient people with unique ...
Read More »I Forgot You Were Jewish When I Said I Support Your Self-Determination
by Entirée Szyst, progressive activist London, January 20 – Oh, goodness, I’m so sorry. Your ancestry and heritage had totally slipped my mind a few minutes ago, and had I remembered, I’d not have mindlessly agreed that you and your people ...
Read More »Let’s Make War Crime Accusations Now For The Next Gaza Conflict
By Arafat Masri, Palestinian Human Rights activist Beit Hanoun, January 12 – No one knows what 2022 will bring. The uncertainty colors all of our decision-making, all the more so in the shadow of COVID-19 and continued high tensions in ...
Read More »This Firebomb Ain’t Gonna Throw Itself At Jewish Kids, You Know
By Nashat Halawi, activist Somewhere in the hills near the Hizme checkpoint, January 3 – We have to get going, Ahmad. It’s almost time for those school buses to pass by on the road down the hill, and we have ...
Read More »The True Meaning Of Christmas Is To Make It About Palestinians
The true meaning of Christmas is not to look too carefully at the facile analogies of Palestine activists. Bethlehem, December 23 – Most of the Christian world heads into the Festival of the Nativity this weekend. We residents of the ...
Read More »The Lack Of Explicit International Law OKing Attacks On Jews Anywhere Is Just A Technicality
By Mohammed El-Kurd, activist Jerusalem, December 14 – People under foreign occupation have a right to resist that occupation, and, as pro-Palestinian apologists have long argued, that right extends to “by any means,” a phrase that my people have always ...
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