I’ve been working on the first two installments of my new music and nostalgia series, but before I post either of those, I feel that I need to say something about Palestine. At the same time, I don’t really have anything to say, that other people haven’t already said in a much more nuanced and informed way. And, as a functionally white Westerner who lives in a settler colonial state whose government helps support other settler colonial states, I don’t feel that it is my place, right now, to say much. I will say that I condemn all genocides (and attempted genocides), in Palestine and worldwide. I will say, also, that I condemn anyone using what is happening in Israel/Palestine as an excuse to be antisemitic to Jewish people who have nothing to do with Israel.
Aside from that, I think my place is to listen to Palestinian voices, to share what they are saying, and to not turn away and ignore it, no matter how dark things get.
On that note, here are some things I have been reading recently:
Ayesha Khan’s Cosmic Anarchy (especially “Our boys & men deserve to live, not just our women & children”)
There is a Jewish Hope for Palestinian Liberation. It Must Survive.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
In solidarity,
JLM