Free PalestineSo today, May 15th, marks the 74th anniversary of the Nakba. This is otherwise known a
Free PalestineSo today, May 15th, marks the 74th anniversary of the Nakba. This is otherwise known as the beginning of the state of Israel or the Palestinian Catastrophe.For those who don’t know Isreal is a settler colonial state who has ethnically cleansed the Palestinian people for decades. They have created the largest prisons in human history, and turned millions of people into refugees. This is a project that started Before the 20th century and continues to this day, and the entire western world is complicit through wilful ignorance.Just this week Shireen Abu Akleh, an american-palestinian journalist, was shot and killed by IDF soldiers in what her colleagues say was a deliberate attempt at murder (source: AlJazeera). She’s the 55th journalist to be killed by Israeli forces since 2000. Not only was she an extremely skilled and influential journalist who documented the atrocities going on in Occupied Palestine, who was then silenced, but during the funerary procession mourners were attacked and her casket nearly dropped.I can highly recommend the historical textbooks The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine and The Biggest Prison on Earth by Ilan Pappe, who has documented the historical facts of the colonial settlement of Palestine. You can find the audiobooks on scribd (first month subscription is free), and the latter audiobook on YouTube. They’re extremely accessible and enlightening, and I cannot recommend them enough.May our generation be the one to see this wrong come to right. -- source link
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