From London to New York, people with no direct ties are stepping into the streets to speak out. Their reasons reveal how empathy, history, and conscience transcend borders.
I first learned about Palestine and the Occupation when I was an 18 year-old American living in Athens, Greece. My Greek boyfriend and all his friends were anarchists and openly supported Palestinian liberation. As someone who innately feels injustice and is moved to speak out against it, I have supported Palestine since that time. I am now 67 years old. I have never been to occupied Palestine, but I have read about it and seen the videos about Palestine for decades and even more so since October 7. I will never stop supporting or speaking up for the Palestinians.
There is no need to have Palestinian friends, or to have visited Palestina (which, honestly, for most if not all would have been visiting “Israel”- look into your passports).
Solidarity is something we learn. I had my awakening in school, 13 years old: the news told, Victor Jara had been killed in Chile … We had our songs, we had our resistance 'heroes', we discussed, we did not take the streets, because Franco was still alive …
Nelson Mandela's maxime “nobody is free until Palestina is free” has always been true. This isn't the first genocide. This isn't the first apartheid
Then we had Morocco taking West Sahara, the Frente Polisario was born and alive, at our doorsteps, so to say.
Solidarity can connect to Palestina in many, many ways, no matter how far away. The keffiyeh. The food. The nakbah. Friends returning from “Israel”. The mediterranean. Manifestations. Poetry.
Actually because genocide and colonialism are evolutionarily retrograde, and are dying out like the dinosaurs. 🦕 so once we get rid of these two genocidal maniacs, the rest of the world will move foreward. They’re on their last gasps.
I first learned about Palestine from an Israeli family member, her hateful views absolutely broke my heart to know that this was considered to be normal in Israel. As someone who suffers from childhood traumas which included years of violent bullying against me for my brown skin adopted into a white community, I immediately identified this bully mentality and was deeply affecteded with the will to counter such prejudice. That was 1987, since then I have opened my heart to Palestine and the beautiful Palestinian people who i've met here and there around the world, also online. I have an especially strong affinity with Palestinian women, and consider it a great gift if I manage to meet their eyes and their heart, to see the softness, the lovelight in their eyes. My own Grandmother had that softness, oh I miss her so. #FreePalestine #LiberatePalestine
I first learned about Palestine and the Occupation when I was an 18 year-old American living in Athens, Greece. My Greek boyfriend and all his friends were anarchists and openly supported Palestinian liberation. As someone who innately feels injustice and is moved to speak out against it, I have supported Palestine since that time. I am now 67 years old. I have never been to occupied Palestine, but I have read about it and seen the videos about Palestine for decades and even more so since October 7. I will never stop supporting or speaking up for the Palestinians.
There is no need to have Palestinian friends, or to have visited Palestina (which, honestly, for most if not all would have been visiting “Israel”- look into your passports).
Solidarity is something we learn. I had my awakening in school, 13 years old: the news told, Victor Jara had been killed in Chile … We had our songs, we had our resistance 'heroes', we discussed, we did not take the streets, because Franco was still alive …
Nelson Mandela's maxime “nobody is free until Palestina is free” has always been true. This isn't the first genocide. This isn't the first apartheid
Then we had Morocco taking West Sahara, the Frente Polisario was born and alive, at our doorsteps, so to say.
Solidarity can connect to Palestina in many, many ways, no matter how far away. The keffiyeh. The food. The nakbah. Friends returning from “Israel”. The mediterranean. Manifestations. Poetry.
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Actually because genocide and colonialism are evolutionarily retrograde, and are dying out like the dinosaurs. 🦕 so once we get rid of these two genocidal maniacs, the rest of the world will move foreward. They’re on their last gasps.
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I first learned about Palestine from an Israeli family member, her hateful views absolutely broke my heart to know that this was considered to be normal in Israel. As someone who suffers from childhood traumas which included years of violent bullying against me for my brown skin adopted into a white community, I immediately identified this bully mentality and was deeply affecteded with the will to counter such prejudice. That was 1987, since then I have opened my heart to Palestine and the beautiful Palestinian people who i've met here and there around the world, also online. I have an especially strong affinity with Palestinian women, and consider it a great gift if I manage to meet their eyes and their heart, to see the softness, the lovelight in their eyes. My own Grandmother had that softness, oh I miss her so. #FreePalestine #LiberatePalestine
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That’s an easy answer. Stupidity….mental illness….stupidity…..