"But in the end, I am undone not by silence or erasure but by empathy."
This resonates. I'm always brought to tears by stories where people are simply kind to each other, in ways that should be universal but unfortunately are not. It's the relief of being reminded that compassion still exists.
Whenever I read the stories of Palestinian displacement, I see reflections of myself, of my family history that is defined by a similar forced rootlessness. My grandparents, too, were forced from their homes, their villages destroyed. It is unbearably sad that my people perpetuated that violence.
I feel for Palestinians *because* their pain feels so familiar, and I wish more Israelis could recognize that all we are doing is spreading our pain around rather than working to actually end it.
I was pro Palestine until Oct 7 and then I was like fuck Palestine until Israel started indiscriminately bombing and I’m like fuck Israel and now I just am in despair over it all back to just hating everyone
DId Israel force all Jewish Palestinians to covert to Islam on pain of death, and kill anyone trying make peace? Hamas is at least as big an oppressor of Palestinians as Netanyahu.
And Jews fought the British Empire alongside Muslims. It's not colonialism, Johnny Sex. It's partition.
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This resonates. I'm always brought to tears by stories where people are simply kind to each other, in ways that should be universal but unfortunately are not. It's the relief of being reminded that compassion still exists.
Many forget that the conflict across Palestine relates more to resources then religion. https://shahidbuttar.substack.com/p/a-dark-turn-in-the-middle-east
And Jews fought the British Empire alongside Muslims. It's not colonialism, Johnny Sex. It's partition.