Palestinian narratives of their own dispossession are routinely dismissed—making witnessing Israel’s ongoing onslaught on Palestine that reignited in 2023 an urgent task. But witnessing is not enough.An anthropologist in the West Bank explains how Israel’s prison regime dehumanizes Palestinians, who nevertheless dream of freedom and resist erasure.
Israel has murdered 33,006 Palestinians in the past five months. 33,006 lives, at the time of writing. 33,006 mothers, daughters, sons, uncles, aunts, fathers, grandfathers, infants, neighbors, health care workers, journalists, patients. This number has been updated in each round of edits, and when it’s published, the number will likely already be out of date.
I wrote a book on witnessing and solidarity in Palestine, but I am no expert in the face of the staggering and incalculable horror of what we are witnessing. My students ask me: How do you/we keep doing this work when it feels like it changes nothing, and it is always under attack? But then I remember the work of the witness, and the work of solidarity, and how such work requires nourishment. It requires us to allow ourselves to feel helpless until we renew our resolve, until we recommit, over and over again, to reading, enumerating, acting.
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