The rallying cry that 'we are all Palestinians' must abandon the metaphor and manifest materially.
People holding banners and Palestinian flags gather at Washington Square Park in New York City to protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza on March 2, 2024.They apprehended him at the airport, and that, my friend told me, was the “silver lining.
When Ramallah slept — or was drugged, or anesthetized into political paralysis — he was among the few hundred who were awake in the dormant city, chanting, shouting, and sending desperate smoke signals, telling Gaza, “You are not alone.” Our land’s mutilated geography could not separate him from the rest of our people, his eyes were watching over Gaza, only pausing to glare at those looking away.
“They can’t kill us all,” she said. If everyone — lawyers, doctors, grocers, business owners, professors, custodians, car dealers, dope dealers — were chanting, the argument goes, nothing could kill us, not the American-made tear gas thrown at us by PA security forces, nor the bullets, also American, fired at us by soldiers donning the Star of David on their fatigues.
In Beirut’s Shatila refugee camp, a grandfather lives and dies haunted by visions of his old house by the beach, so visceral he could almost smell it. In Jerusalem, I worry about my family’s house, about my brother on his commute to work, the trigger-happy police. It is tempting, almost comforting — particularly as I look at the food on my table and the roof over my head — to indulge in guilt, but it is an unproductive sentiment, it does not start revolutions. Guilt imposes itself like a nagging cavity, you are acutely aware of its presence, but you continue to shovel the same sweets in your mouth, until your teeth rot, until you self-destruct.
The Western world, with its prominent cultural and academic institutions, rejected Gaza’s upheaval against the siege, and it demanded that our intelligentsia act accordingly. We were commanded to uphold the status quo in order to maintain our positions, our access, our reputations as the “good ones.”
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