I wish people were nicer to kids. There's not really any safe physical spaces left for them and the internet is even worse. I remember being small and vulnerable. I wish we could be more sympathetic.
A lot of these white western people quietly changing their opinion on Israel are going to accuse Palestinians of having no capacity for forgiveness rather than confront their own capacity for genocide.
Let it be known now and forever. He could’ve done this months ago. That America will never ever be the heroes this time around. We watched them veto every time the world asked for lives to be saved. But it only took 3 white people, not the 30 000+ Palestinians gone…
2 self-immolations. A 45-day-old baby starved to death, younger than this genocide. A journalist pulled alive from rubble after 4 days. شهيد, as in martyr, as in witness. We are all witnesses. The reckoning w the self is at a cellular level. If we cannot be brave now, then when.
After Rosa Park’s arrest, Black Americans boycotted the Montgomery bus for a year before the US supreme court ruled segregation in the bus as unconditional. Mind you they needed the bus to go to work.
We don’t need McDonald’s, we don’t need Starbucks. #FreePalestine