What a incredible writing! The way you bring different faces of colonization through shared history with other people around the world helps to identify the patterns. While conduction the main idea of the text on how memory and language are an important and well known target to the concretization of the colonizing. I see many parallels with what has been done to indigenous people in Brazil, sadly.
There is something deeply painful about asking a people to “deradicalize” while leaving the wounds that shaped their anger untouched.
You cannot bomb the grief out of a people. You cannot erase generations of displacement, occupation, loss, and humiliation and then wonder why they refuse to forget.
Palestinians do not need to be taught how to be human. The world needs to remember that they already are.
Perhaps true deradicalization begins not with demanding silence from the oppressed, but with ending the conditions that keep producing their pain.
Because peace cannot grow from a graveyard of unanswered suffering. It begins when justice finally becomes more than a word.
Palestinians have the right to remember who they are, where they come from, and what was taken from them. You cannot create peace by erasing a people’s history. Palestine’s memory will survive.
Thank you very much for sharing this I hope for justice and humanity, especially for children, because Peace without justice is not peace. It is just silence imposed on those who have suffered the longest.
Such an important and well researched piece of work, your words explain not just the physical assault but the psychological assault on the Palestinian people.
The people of Gaza, like any other places in the world, have the right to live like ordinary citizens and to have their own culture, schools, and universities. Protect your heritage ✌🏼🩵🕊️✨
Powerful essay on how Zionism seeks to not only erase Palestinian life but to sever Palestinians from the memory of who they are. To know is to resist that erasure.
Such an eloquent response to the question: Why do the humanities matter?
Thank you for this, Abu Alya.
“Culture is what colonizes,” I wrote in a piece this week on mental colonization. Books before the guns.
An excellent rundown of the cultural pressures and the re-education plans Israel has in store.
I can only think of one word in response:
Never!
Here is the link if you haven’t seen it
https://ramseyhanhan.substack.com/p/decolonize-your-mind-can-you-part?r=29waq2&utm_medium=ios
What a incredible writing! The way you bring different faces of colonization through shared history with other people around the world helps to identify the patterns. While conduction the main idea of the text on how memory and language are an important and well known target to the concretization of the colonizing. I see many parallels with what has been done to indigenous people in Brazil, sadly.
(Amazing artworks aswell!)
الفلسطيني ولد ليتالم ويعيش في معاناة نحن لا نبحث عن الدنيا وليس لدينا مصالح دنيوية وعند الله نلتقي جميعا ....
Amazing writing per usual, Abu Alya. Preserving our memory is our ultimate act of resistance. Thank you for sharing the art work, stunning.
It means a lot coming from you. Thank you.
This hits hard. The idea of memory, identity, and displacement makes the artwork even more powerful. 🕊️
There is something deeply painful about asking a people to “deradicalize” while leaving the wounds that shaped their anger untouched.
You cannot bomb the grief out of a people. You cannot erase generations of displacement, occupation, loss, and humiliation and then wonder why they refuse to forget.
Palestinians do not need to be taught how to be human. The world needs to remember that they already are.
Perhaps true deradicalization begins not with demanding silence from the oppressed, but with ending the conditions that keep producing their pain.
Because peace cannot grow from a graveyard of unanswered suffering. It begins when justice finally becomes more than a word.
Palestinians have the right to remember who they are, where they come from, and what was taken from them. You cannot create peace by erasing a people’s history. Palestine’s memory will survive.
Thank you very much for sharing this I hope for justice and humanity, especially for children, because Peace without justice is not peace. It is just silence imposed on those who have suffered the longest.
Such an important and well researched piece of work, your words explain not just the physical assault but the psychological assault on the Palestinian people.
The people of Gaza, like any other places in the world, have the right to live like ordinary citizens and to have their own culture, schools, and universities. Protect your heritage ✌🏼🩵🕊️✨
Powerful essay on how Zionism seeks to not only erase Palestinian life but to sever Palestinians from the memory of who they are. To know is to resist that erasure.
You can erase places from a map, but erasing them from memory is another matter entirely.
https://4d1sora.substack.com/p/375?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=7bb8mc
https://substack.com/@michelle865202/note/c-339256044?r=74dcl5
Free palestine 🇵🇸