Palestinians may be facing annihilation, but their humanity & resistance are an example to us all. They need us to continue to speak out, and stand up to our cowardly, morally bankrupt leaders.
I attended this event and Avigail brilliantly sums up the reactions of people who attended: revulsion at the brutality of the Israelis, awe at the courage and resilience of Mohammed and his people and a determination to act in support of the victims of these war crimes. This must involve exposing the complicity and cowardice of our own media and public representatives and their connivance in these vile crimes 🇮🇪👍💚🇵🇸
I was fortunate to attend the screening in Aberdeen this week. What a powerful and moving film and Mohamad is a beautiful, humble human being - truly embodying sumud. The determination of the Palestinians is remarkable - seeing how a school for Bedouin children was built overnight in 11 hours in secrecy and darkness; a whole community working together. And when it was destroyed by settlers they set up a tent school and kept on teaching.
Mohamad also described the struggle to even leave the West Bank - the arbitrary decisions at each checkpoint and 3 different authorities to satisfy in order to cross the Jordan border.
I hope the film reaches a much wider audience ✊🏽🇵🇸
Avigail, your writing is so powerful, thank you for posting this. I hope "On My Land" will soon make it to the US. So many Americans need to see the truth about the nation they in large prt crested and have kept running for decades.
Thank you for writing about this, Avigail. I look forward to seeing the film when I can. Regarding Israel's plans for the West Bank, the author of this chilling but insightful article was interviewed on "The Majority Report" the other day and it is worth reading. It's another one of those things that is so insidious it's impossible to talk about without sounding like a conspiracy nut.
Dear Avigail, thank you for this article! Would it be possible to organize a screening of the film Where The Olive Trees Weep? It is a film that everyone must see. About the West Bank and one woman who was tortured and beaten so that first she was in the Israeli torture prison and then during one demonstration her spine was broken in pieces and she was paralyzed but managed to insist on a surgery so that her spine can be held by Titanium plastines in her body. She became a trauma psychologist for Palestinian women and after the film was made, October 7 happened and the filmmakers managed to rescue her from the West Bank to California where she now lives and gives speeches and conducts panels. Her name is Ashira Darwish. Please see if it is possible to organize a screening. It is very easy to do, if you have a space: https://whereolivetreesweep.com/host-a-screening/
I know the filmmakers, Zaya and Maurizio, from Gabor Mate.
I find it hard to believe the state of Israel doesn’t understand what can come at them out of the torment and rubble. Where in History has this inhumanity ever worked in the end?
These jewish supremacists have been creating hell on earth for several millennia and seem to persevere like cockroaches. Perhaps the world will finally sicken of them and remove them from all positions of power. Goes for all religions actually.
It is not Jewish religion that is the problem. Jewish religion is pacifist and would never harm anyone. It’s like the Taliban calling themselves Muslims and implicating all Muslims in what they do. Zionism and Israel have hijacked the definition of Jewishness but theirs is a distorted and sick version, which is not even religious. Please watch this interview with anti-Zionist Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro on TRT World. He is a great speaker and you might find what he has to say interesting. https://youtu.be/P7UtkPDM3F0?feature=shared
Your/our problem is with anyone who supports Israel, whatever they choose to call themselves. There are plenty of non-Jews who support Israel and Israel’s biggest donors and political backers are Zionist Messianic Christians. Israel is not ‘the Jews’ and it does not speak for ‘Jews’. The problem is those who believe that settler-colonialism is right and that they have a right to remove all the indigenous people and replace them with their own. They include the most powerful Western economies, themselves colonial or settler-colonial powers.
And by the way there is no need to insult cockroaches, which are very intelligent creatures. I used to have a horrible aversion to them until I moved to Australia and learned to respect them. I have moved away from comparing bad humans to any form of animals. Animals do not have a choice about what they are and what they do. Humans do.
I attended this event and Avigail brilliantly sums up the reactions of people who attended: revulsion at the brutality of the Israelis, awe at the courage and resilience of Mohammed and his people and a determination to act in support of the victims of these war crimes. This must involve exposing the complicity and cowardice of our own media and public representatives and their connivance in these vile crimes 🇮🇪👍💚🇵🇸
I was fortunate to attend the screening in Aberdeen this week. What a powerful and moving film and Mohamad is a beautiful, humble human being - truly embodying sumud. The determination of the Palestinians is remarkable - seeing how a school for Bedouin children was built overnight in 11 hours in secrecy and darkness; a whole community working together. And when it was destroyed by settlers they set up a tent school and kept on teaching.
Mohamad also described the struggle to even leave the West Bank - the arbitrary decisions at each checkpoint and 3 different authorities to satisfy in order to cross the Jordan border.
I hope the film reaches a much wider audience ✊🏽🇵🇸
I hope so too Dx! Glad you got to see it. What the world is enabling Israel to do and get away with is beyond inexcusable.
Avigail, your writing is so powerful, thank you for posting this. I hope "On My Land" will soon make it to the US. So many Americans need to see the truth about the nation they in large prt crested and have kept running for decades.
Thank you for writing about this, Avigail. I look forward to seeing the film when I can. Regarding Israel's plans for the West Bank, the author of this chilling but insightful article was interviewed on "The Majority Report" the other day and it is worth reading. It's another one of those things that is so insidious it's impossible to talk about without sounding like a conspiracy nut.
https://www.thedriftmag.com/in-ruins/
Dear Avigail, thank you for this article! Would it be possible to organize a screening of the film Where The Olive Trees Weep? It is a film that everyone must see. About the West Bank and one woman who was tortured and beaten so that first she was in the Israeli torture prison and then during one demonstration her spine was broken in pieces and she was paralyzed but managed to insist on a surgery so that her spine can be held by Titanium plastines in her body. She became a trauma psychologist for Palestinian women and after the film was made, October 7 happened and the filmmakers managed to rescue her from the West Bank to California where she now lives and gives speeches and conducts panels. Her name is Ashira Darwish. Please see if it is possible to organize a screening. It is very easy to do, if you have a space: https://whereolivetreesweep.com/host-a-screening/
I know the filmmakers, Zaya and Maurizio, from Gabor Mate.
Thanks for your passionate article and support of Palestinian people, Avigail.
I find it hard to believe the state of Israel doesn’t understand what can come at them out of the torment and rubble. Where in History has this inhumanity ever worked in the end?
These jewish supremacists have been creating hell on earth for several millennia and seem to persevere like cockroaches. Perhaps the world will finally sicken of them and remove them from all positions of power. Goes for all religions actually.
It is not Jewish religion that is the problem. Jewish religion is pacifist and would never harm anyone. It’s like the Taliban calling themselves Muslims and implicating all Muslims in what they do. Zionism and Israel have hijacked the definition of Jewishness but theirs is a distorted and sick version, which is not even religious. Please watch this interview with anti-Zionist Rabbi Yaakov Shapiro on TRT World. He is a great speaker and you might find what he has to say interesting. https://youtu.be/P7UtkPDM3F0?feature=shared
Your/our problem is with anyone who supports Israel, whatever they choose to call themselves. There are plenty of non-Jews who support Israel and Israel’s biggest donors and political backers are Zionist Messianic Christians. Israel is not ‘the Jews’ and it does not speak for ‘Jews’. The problem is those who believe that settler-colonialism is right and that they have a right to remove all the indigenous people and replace them with their own. They include the most powerful Western economies, themselves colonial or settler-colonial powers.
And by the way there is no need to insult cockroaches, which are very intelligent creatures. I used to have a horrible aversion to them until I moved to Australia and learned to respect them. I have moved away from comparing bad humans to any form of animals. Animals do not have a choice about what they are and what they do. Humans do.