“Our energies, for grief, are transformed into energies that seek action, seek meaningful action and are very optimistic and hopeful. They are driven by optimism in a way that we do imagine a liberated Palestine. We do imagine our free people.”
Many Palestinian children living in the occupied West Bank cannot walk to school without a military escort, assuming their classrooms have not been demolished or confiscated by Israelis in the first place. Palestinian kids face constant attacks and harassment from violent Israeli “settlers” pushing to colonize the West Bank with illegal settlements, if not wipe Palestine off the map altogether.
It’s already been an intense month, like months beforehand. Coming into May, things could always get worse. The fact that we lost Khader Adnan after 86 days of hunger strike, it was a very crushing feeling. But at the same time, people need to understand who Khader Adnan is. This is a man who gave his life. He went on a hunger strike several times and wanted the whole world to look at the deep injustice that is being committed here in Palestine.
There needs to be action and there needs to be accountability. We cannot lose another Shireen, we cannot lose another Khader Adnan. People are giving way too much. People are giving their lives to highlight the injustice that we’re living through. It’s a very difficult month coming into. It’s just… I don’t know. It’s hard, it’s tough, but we have to keep going.
So when we reflect on the intensity of the last year and these escalations, as compared to the last few decades, at the same time, we understand that it’s completely compatible with our understanding of what Zionism is. That’s not to say that the intensity of the violence and the grief that we’re experiencing this month and this last year is not really heavy because it is really, really heavy.
Palestine is Israel’s workshop, where an occupied nation on its doorstep provides millions of subjugated people as a laboratory for the most precise and successful methods of domination.Loewenstein also warns that “despotism has never been so easily shareable with compact technology,” adding that, “Ethnonationalist ideology grows when accountable democracy withers. Israel is the ultimate model and goal.
We’ve seen technologies that have been sold to countries in Africa, in Latin America, even been used in the States, in the United States. I think it was a technology that is hacking systems to give out a false message, false messaging to affect a democratic process. It happened somewhere in the States as well.
So Israel may be in some ways the model of oppression, warfare and colonialism, but it’s exporting that model around the world. And those conveyor belts of this war machine also bind the people around the world who are the test subjects of these weaponries. And this is something that, I think, as Jalal was saying, Palestinians are very acutely aware of.
So I think this understanding and this outlook on the world, to reference that quote, really goes both ways, that once we see it, we can’t unsee it and it allows us to be better connected and better equipped to build a different future as well, and to organize for it.: To build on that Leila Khaled quote that Lea just mentioned, it’s also really important for us to remember that the Zionist entity in itself was constructed as an experimentation ground.
Today, there was a girl. She’s at university now studying media and journalism. She spoke very eloquently and well at the very end. She brought me hope and optimism because this girl basically met Shireen when she was in seventh grade in school. She went to the same school Shireen went to. Shireen went to speak as a journalist. This girl was a young girl in school who felt inspired by Shireen.
Whenever there is grief, there is unity, and in unity, there is strength, and we feel it. Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral was one of the most incredible events I’ve attended in my entire life. It happened right there in Jerusalem. It was an incredible moment. Those moments are not stopping. They keep continuing.
On a personal level, everyone feels differently when they grieve, but they feel something collective. As for us Palestinians, we grieve a lot, a lot. I can’t even begin to tell you. There’s a lot to grieve about. In the morning, and at noon, in the evening, it’s very hard being Palestinian sometimes, but at the same time, we all know that holding onto hope does allow us to survive those stages. And honestly, over the past two years, I’ve seen this on the ground.
On that wall, the children’s spray painted and they renamed the street, Shireen Abu Akleh, the street of Shireen Abu Akleh. They named the playground on that street after her as well. And so, children are literally playing amongst this constant reminder of the loss of a great Palestinian icon. But at the same time, I think there’s something so profoundly hopeful and revolutionary in that.
It’s an imperative to start campaigns, to make mistakes, to learn and to grow and to strengthen the muscles of the movement. And while our martyrs may be the lifeblood of our movement, and Palestine is obviously the heart of our struggle, here in the U.S., we are perhaps one arm of the struggle, and Britain maybe is another. The camps in Lebanon, Jordan, Syria are another.
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