Israeli forces take security measures at Old City ahead of Friday prayers in Al-Aqsa Mosque on October 20, 2023 in Jerusalem.
Since October 7, we have been telling ourselves all kinds of stories about the events that took place in Israel-Palestine on that day. Some of these stories begin on October 7, 2023. Some begin in, or during the Middle Ages or the Ottoman Empire, or before the common era. Where we choose to begin affects our understanding.
The words we use — these, too, change everything. Do we say unprovoked attacks or resistance to decades of brutal oppression? Do we say terrorists or militants? Illegal occupation or self-preservation? Usually thoughtful people are suddenly railing against honoring complexity. They insist that sympathy for all is inherently unjust, whether because it implies false equivalencies between oppressor and oppressed, or because it absolves the subjugated of responsibility and robs them of agency.
When we notice ourselves getting caught up in such in-fighting we need to ask: Who benefits from driving this wedge between us? In what further harm do we become unwittingly complicit by allowing our energies to be diverted this way?
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