I speak against the 75-year brutal occupation of my people, the inhumane system of Apartheid, the ongoing genocide in Gaza, our ethnic cleansing from historic Palestine, and our collective punishment all over the world.
I will not be intimidated by baseless accusations of antisemitism. I will not be silenced while my friends and family are relentlessly bombed, dismembered, dispossessed, and ridiculed by Zionists. You can try and target my career, tarnish my reputation, put a bullet in my head, whatever you wish to do. You will never own me.
To the rabid Zionists threatened by my intelligence- kiss my Palestinian ass.. come what may. ✌🏽❤️🇵🇸
Every American I know who has spent time in Palestine comes back angry, disgusted and traumatized. I’ve yet to meet someone who says “it’s not that bad. It’s their fault and they deserve it”. I’ve met many who went believing Israel were the good guys and Palestinians screwed themselves over only to come back with an entirely disgusted view of Israel.
I came back in a state of shock. I witnessed in real life things I had only read about in history books. Things I never believed a government could do in modern times. I had a neutral view of Israel prior to my trip. During my trip I was extremely skeptical and even pissed off several Palestinians with my lines of questioning. When I came back to the states and began processing everything… I couldn’t turn on the lights or get myself out of bed for a week. What I saw was unimaginable. It was a cruelty aimed at a group of generous and warm people with a very very clear intent- to get rid of them. And I couldn’t believe the group doing it to these people had it done to them not long ago. They took similar tactics and weaponized them against others. That is what I saw and I can’t unsee it. The children in the schools would stop me and beg me to come home and tell America to stop. They know it’s us allowing this abuse.
Myself and everyone I know comes back disgusted with Israel. And many of us weren’t even in Gaza witnessing war. Everyday normal life for Palestinians is cruel and it’s 100% controlled by Israel. And despite what we’ve been spoon fed our whole lives, it’s not done because the Palestinians are violent and dangerous, it’s done to rid the region of them. To make their lives so miserable they either leave or violently rise up giving Israel an excuse to take more land. And the Israelis are not shy about this when you speak to them. Some might couch it with statements like “well we tried peace but they didn’t accept it”. It doesn’t matter how they phrase it, they still end up in the same place which is “they can’t stay” and “we want them gone”.
If we didn't have a culture of wearing the hijab as all or nothing, I think a lot more Muslim women would try and make their first steps to commit to wearing it. We just don't treat any other form of worship in the way we do hijab, "either do it properly or don't do it at all"