Gaza Nurse: Stand Up for Humanity - Ignoring Genocide Puts Us ALL at Risk!

“This is not just about Gaza; it's also about the silence that threatens all of us. What is happening in Gaza isn't just a tragedy for Palestinians; it is a threat and a warning to all of us. It is a litmus test. What we allow to happen there gives Israel, and any other oppressor encouraged by our silence, the green light to carry out similar atrocities elsewhere… Silence in the face of genocide is complicity. The world must not look away as Gaza bleeds. This is not just Gaza's fight; it is the world's fight. The time to act was a year ago. The future will judge us by how we respond to this moment. So be the one to stand up and NOT stand by. Demand a ceasefire now. Demand justice now. Because if we fail Gaza, we fail humanity.” ~ Lana Abugharbieh, an American nurse who served in Gaza (watch her full speech below)

Philosophers and human rights advocates argue that when people remain silent in the face of genocide, they effectively enable or approve of the perpetrators’ actions. Refusing to speak out, despite being aware of what’s happening, is considered a form of moral complicity, even if the silent party isn’t personally carrying out the violence. Even worse, as Lana Abugharbieh eloquently pointed out, silence gives our oppressors “the green light to carry out similar atrocities elsewhere.”

Please listen carefully to nurse Lana Abugharbieh as she exposes the calculated genocide of Palestinians—85,000 TONS of bombs dropped on two million people in an area no larger than Washington, D.C., mass civilian deaths, the destruction of all hospitals, the murder of over 1,000 healthcare workers, and the total collapse of healthcare infrastructure—while calling for urgent global action against silence and complicity.

Listen to this Nurse’s eye witness testimony as to the atrocities she witnessed in Gaza:

“This Holocaust on the Palestinians is being live streamed in real time”

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— JonnyUtd (@Fx1Jonny) December 17, 2024

January 2, 2025: The Genocide in Gaza Rages On – Nowhere Is Safe

“When the morning came we came to inspect the site and as you can see it is devastation: complete destruction. What have the children done to be hit at 1:00 in the morning? There is no safe area at all.” ~ Aiyda Zanoun, displaced Palestinian woman. Watch this report from Gaza and ask yourself: how is this evil still happening in 2025? (The answer: we've not just allowed it—we've enabled it by our silence.)

Is It Really Genocide? Yes!

On November 28, 2024, the Oxford Union held a debate with eight speakers—four on each side—on the resolution, “This house believes that Israel is an apartheid state responsible for genocide.” The motion passed by an overwhelming margin, 278 to 59. Susan Abulhawa was among the speakers, and her deeply moving address stood out as the most powerful endorsement of the Palestinian cause I have ever heard. Although I was already aware of the genocide unfolding in Gaza, Susan's eloquent words and heartfelt delivery struck an emotional chord in me like never before:

In addition to the Oxford Union's decisive post-debate verdict on genocide, WATCH how Amnesty International arrived at the same conclusion through evidence and analysis. The first treaty to explicitly define and criminalize genocide in international law was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 in response to the atrocities of World War II. To prove genocide has taken place you need to show that ONE or more of the five acts prohibited by the genocide convention was carried out. In this heart-wrenching video titled “Israel's Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza Revealed Through Evidence and Analysis,” Amnesty International provides evidence that 3 of the 5 prohibited acts have been committed by Israel. This six-minute video is a MUST-WATCH:

Amnesty International's conclusion: For the genocide to end—governments must come together and take resolute action.  They must use every legal avenue to bring perpetrators to justice, stop arms transfers and urgently work to dismantle Israel’s unlawful occupation and apartheid regime.

Key Supporting Evidence + What YOU Can Do

Keep reading to explore crucial supporting information. The following topics are covered:

Antisemitism allegations are used to silence critics of Israel
A hero’s 5-minute summary of Israel’s brutality and immunity
It Was NEVER About Hamas; It's About the Land, Stupid!
An Invisible Government Is Running the World – NO JOKE!
The October 7 attack was ALLOWED, while Israel killed it's own citizens and blamed Hamas
Proof that Israel INTENTIONALLY targets children
Many more Palestinians have died than we have been told
The ICC issued war crimes arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Deif
Biden is a War Criminal; Trump’s Return Could Make Matters Worse
Empathy is the glue that makes us stand united as humanity
Here's What YOU Can Do
First They Came
Transcript of Susan Abulhawa’s speech
Susan Abulhawa’s speech was partially censored by the Oxford Union

Antisemitism Allegations Are Used To Silence Critics of Israel

WATCH the video below from 2002 on Democracy Now with former Israeli cabinet member, Shulamit Aloni, in which she explains that antisemitism allegations are used as a trick to silence critics of Israel:

A Hero’s 5-Minute Summary of Israel’s Brutality and Immunity

Watch UN Rapporteur Francesca Albanese address Israel’s actions in Palestine, focusing on its impunity and the international community’s inaction. Speaking at the UN headquarters in Geneva, she calls out the lack of sanctions on Israel despite its brutality and barbarism against Palestinians. Francesca is an unwavering voice of reason and a hero in my eyes. Be sure to watch this:

It Was NEVER About Hamas; It's About the Land, Stupid!

Check out THIS Common Dreams article about Netanyahu’s UN speech, where he unveiled a “New Middle East” map with NO Palestine—15 days BEFORE October 7, 2023. Also, have a close look at this post on X and check the date on the bottom:

No greater insult to every foundational principle of the United Nations than seeing Netanyahu display before the UNGA a “map of Israel” that straddles the entire land from the river to the sea, negating Palestine and its people, then attempting to spin the audience with rhetoric… pic.twitter.com/nJUGgaNpDD

— Laith Arafeh 🇵🇸 (@ArafehLaith) September 22, 2023

Now, click the play button on the video below showing Israeli children singing about the “annihilation” of Gaza and its people (which was FACT-CHECKED by EuroNews HERE). The video was posted and then removed by Kan, an Israeli state-owned news channel, shortly after October 7 (see the date under the video). Notice that there is NO mention of defeating Hamas. Instead it's about eliminating ALL of the Palestinians (who they call “swastika-bearers”) so that they can return to their land:

Watch: Israeli children sing, "We will annihiliate everyone" in Gaza https://t.co/kDEdkDwtsO pic.twitter.com/QgVMeL1xIm

— Electronic Intifada (@intifada) November 21, 2023

Here are some of the lyrics:

Look the IDF is crossing the line to annihilate the swastika-bearers
In another year there will be nothing there and we will safely return to our homes.
Within a year we will eliminate them all and then we will return to plow our fields.

Israel’s Right to Defend Itself

At the very beginning of a new documentary titled “Occupied”, there is a clip of Benjamin Netanyahu in 2001 saying that Israel needed to “strike them, not once, but several times, so painfully that the price they pay will be unbearable. So far, the price tag is not unbearable. A large scale attack on the Palestinian authority, causing them to fear that everything is about to collapse – this is what we’ll bring them to.”

To which a woman replies: “Hold on, then the world will again say that we’re occupiers.”

Netanyahu then said: “No. The world will say nothing. The world will say that WE ARE DEFENDING OURSELVES… America is something you can easily maneuver.”

The phrase, “Israel has the right to defend themselves,” is the phrase now parroted by the vast majority of our government officials – including several that I previously held in high regard. How could Netanyahu be so sure that the world (and especially American politicians) would say this? See the next section of this article titled “An Invisible Government Is Running the World.”

In addition, watch this absolutely MUST SEE video regarding the crucial role the U.S. has played in the genocide of Palestinians, and the absolutely bizarre “unbreakable bond” between the U.S. and Israel – plus the negative impact of that unbreakable bond on U.S. cities and citizens:

An Invisible Government Is Running the World – NO JOKE!

The U.S. is not the only country that has an unbreakable bond with Israel. Many—if not most—Western leaders function as mere puppets for Israel. WATCH THIS POWERFUL SHORT VIDEO in which Richard B. Barrett (one of the good guys), an Irish MP, lambasted Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, for the EU's double standards and inaction regarding Israel's ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, while continuing to grant Israel favored trade status.

How could a country of fewer than ten million people possibly rule the world? They don’t. There is an invisible government that actually holds the power. Israel is the front. Listen to JFK's Secret Society Speech. Here's a snippet of JFK's 1961 speech that is still very relevant today:

“For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence–on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations.

Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match.”

The sad truth is that an invisible government (aka Deep State) has controlled the U.S. government for nearly 200 years. JFK was not the only one who tried warn us. All of the men pictured below (seven U.S. presidents and one vice-president) – PLUS many other high-ranking American politicians – issued dire warnings as well (read ALL of their warnings HERE):

Top: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John C Calhoun, and Theodore Roosevelt; Bottom: Woodrow Wilson, Franklin D Roosevelt, Dwight D Eisenhower, and John F Kennedy. Each warned about the deep state.

The October 7 Attack Was Allowed, While Israel Killed It's Own Citizens and Blamed Hamas

“If a bird came close, we knew. Even a cockroach came to our fence border, we knew. How did 400 Hamas pass through today? The answer is they were allowed to. Was this a surprise attack for the civilian population of Israel? Oh yes, of course. It was even a surprise attack for many in the rank and file of the military. But the inner core that's running the show, surprise to them? You must be joking.” ~ Former IDF soldier

In THIS VIDEO that David Icke posted the day after October 7, 2023 attack, Icke presents compelling evidence that the attack was NOT a surprise. On the contrary, it was ALLOWED by Israel so that they could then retaliate and obliterate Palestine. Icke also predicted pretty much everything that has happened since the attack.

Below is a quote from Icke’s video regarding the invisible government that was described by JFK above:

“They don't care about you, Jewish people of Israel and the wider world. The Sabbatean cult has infiltrated you. It does not care about you, and that's why it's allowed this to happen for ulterior motives we will get into. And at the same time, this global cult, as I call it, is behind Hamas. If you want to bring two groups of people into conflict with each other, they control both sides… So Hamas is hanging the Palestinian civilians out to dry, and the same is happening with the government of Israel and Israeli civilians.”

The following video delves into the shocking revelations about Israel's Hannibal Directive and its devastating impact on October 7th. A bombshell report from Haaretz (an Israeli newspaper) has shattered the long-standing narrative, exposing Israel's deadly secret (many of those killed on October 7 were killed by the IDF). Learn how Israel's own military protocol led to the tragic loss of civilian lives, supposedly to prevent Hamas from taking hostages:

Proof that Israel INTENTIONALLY Targets Children

In the documentary “Occupied”, Israeli soldiers unequivocally state that they murder Palestinian children to prevent them from growing up to become their enemies in the future. In the following two videos, doctors who volunteered in Palestine share harrowing first-hand accounts that reveal children were deliberately targeted:

In these two videos, several other doctors describe the horrific atrocities they witnessed firsthand:

Many More Palestinians Have Died Than We Have Been Told

WATCH Susan Abulhawa reveal why the true death toll is far higher than reported.

Earlier this year, Susan published an article about the death toll in Gaza that goes into greater detail. Read Susan’s math-based analysis HERE.

Note that “The Lancet” published an article a few weeks after Susan in which they came to a similar conclusion. The Lancet article includes the following text:

“The total death toll is expected to be large given the intensity of this conflict; destroyed health-care infrastructure; severe shortages of food, water, and shelter; the population's inability to flee to safe places; and the loss of funding to UNRWA, one of the very few humanitarian organisations still active in the Gaza Strip.

“In recent conflicts, such indirect deaths range from three to 15 times the number of direct deaths. Applying a conservative estimate of four indirect deaths per one direct death to the deaths reported, it is not implausible to estimate that up to 186 000 or even more deaths could be attributable to the current conflict in Gaza.”

READ the FULL LANCET ARTICLE HERE

The ICC Issued War Crimes Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant and Deif

The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for alleged war crimes in Gaza. It's also issued warrants for Hamas leader Mohammed Deif. However, politicians in Israel and the U.S. have attempted to intimidate the ICC to withdraw the warrants:

The ICC shouldn't stop there. In fact, every government leader who has supported and enabled the war crimes should also be arrested:

Biden is a War Criminal; Trump’s Return Could Make Matters Worse

The Biden administration’s support for Israel’s annihilation of Palestine is reprehensible. Genocide Joe should be arrested for war crimes along with every member of Congress who took bribes from AIPAC and have supported the genocide (watch this interview with Jimmy Carter from 2007 in which he explains the pressure put on the spineless members of Congress to do Israel's bidding). A little over a month ago, the United States exercised its veto power (for the 4th time) at the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to block a resolution calling for an “immediate, unconditional, and permanent” ceasefire in the Gaza Strip (the U.S. was the lone dissenting vote):

Could U.S. support for Israel grow even stronger under Trump? It’s entirely possible. Below are a few key examples showing Donald Trump’s steadfast support for Israel and his hostility toward Palestine:

In regards to Trump's push to silence pro-Palestinian protests, JFK's words of caution from his Secret Society speech offer a timely warning.

“Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed–and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy.”~ President John F. Kennedy, April 27, 1961

Empathy Is the Glue that Makes Us Stand United As Humanity

In her address to the UN General Assembly, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese acknowledged condemnation of Hamas’s attack, solidarity with Israeli victims, and calls for hostages’ release, but questioned the lack of empathy for Palestinians, asking, “Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathize?” Criticizing those who ignore Gaza’s crisis, Francesca warned that “empathy has evaporated,” and that “empathy is the glue that makes us stand united as humanity.”

Where is YOUR empathy? Sadly, many adults over 30 appear to lack empathy for Palestinians or even an awareness of the genocide taking place, even as it’s streamed live on TikTok by BOTH sides. Only 15-20% of adults over 30 ever visit TikTok. The majority of TikTok users are between the ages of 18 and 24, followed by 25 to 34. 62% of Gen Z use TikTok. Bottom line: in general, the younger generation is far more aware, caring, and outspoken. That is why Trump wants to violate the First Amendment and silence pro-Palestinian campus protests and “throw out” students who attend pro-Palestinian protests.

Here's What YOU Can Do

These profoundly important words from nurse Lana Abugharbieh, who witnessed the Gaza genocide firsthand, deserve to be repeated:

“Silence in the face of genocide is complicity. The world must not look away as Gaza bleeds. This is not just Gaza's fight; it is the world's fight. The time to act was a year ago. The future will judge us by how we respond to this moment. So be the one to stand up and NOT stand by. Demand a ceasefire now. Demand justice now. Because if we fail Gaza, we fail humanity.”

Now that you’ve heard from Lana Abugharbieh and Susan Abulhawa, their urgent pleas to stop Israel from erasing Palestine cannot be unheard. So, what will YOU do? Stay silent and complicit—or speak up? Start by sharing your thoughts, and/or this article, with friends and family who may not grasp the urgency of the situation.

If you're waiting for a genocide or a nuclear blast in your own back yard before you act, reflect on these powerful words from JFK's Secret Society Speech:

“No war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of ‘clear and present danger,' then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.” ~ President John F. Kennedy, April 27, 1961

After JFK's assassination, the world took a huge turn for the worse and continues to spiral downward. We have the power to change this, but action is necessary. Silence and inaction could lead to the end of humanity as we know it.

What can we do to stop the genocide of Palestinians and the further collapse of our shared humanity before it's too late? Please take a few moments to listen again to the voice of reason, UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese:

First They Came

First they came for the Whistleblowers,
And I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Whistleblower.

Then they came for the Protestors,
And I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Protestor.

Then they came for the Palestinians,
And I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Palestinian.

Then they came for me—
And there was no one left to speak for me.

This powerful message serves as a reminder of the importance of solidarity and the need to stand up against oppression in all its forms.

Transcript of Susan Abulhawa’s Speech

I will not take questions until I’m finished speaking; so please refrain from interrupting me.

Addressing the challenge of what to do about the indigenous inhabitants of the land Chaim Weizman, a Russian Jew, said to the World Zionist Congress in 1921 that Palestinians were akin to “the rocks of Judea, obstacles that had to be cleared on a difficult path.”

David Gruen, a Polish Jew, who changed his name to David Ben Gurion (1886-1973) to sound relevant to the region, said. “We must expel Arabs and take their places.”

There are thousands of such conversations among the early zionists who plotted and implemented the violent colonization of Palestine and the annihilation of her native people.

But they were only partially successful, murdering or ethnically cleansing 80% of Palestinians. This meant that 20% of us remained, an enduring obstacle to their colonial fantasies, which became the subject of their obsessions in the decades that followed, especially after conquering what remained of Palestine in 1967.

Zionists lamented our presence and they debated publicly in all circles—political, academic, social, and cultural — what to do with us; what to do about the Palestinian birth rate, about our babies, which they dub a “demographic threat.”

Benny Morris, who was originally meant to be here, once expressed regret that Ben Gurion “did not finish the job” of getting rid of us all, which would have obviated what they refer to as the “Arab problem.”

Benjamin Netanyahu, a Polish Jew whose real name is Benjamin Mileikowsky, once bemoaned a missed opportunity during the 1989 Tiananmen Square uprising to expel large swaths of the Palestinian population “while world attention was focused on China.”

Some of their articulated solutions to the nuisance of our existence include a “break their bones” policy in the ’80s and ’90s, ordered by Yitzhak Rubitzov, a Ukrainian Jew who changed his name to Yitzhak Rabin (for the same reasons).

That horrific policy crippling generations of Palestinians did not succeed in making us leave. And, frustrated by Palestinian resilience, a new discourse arose, especially after a massive natural gas field was discovered off the coast of Northern Gaza, worth trillions of dollars.

This new discourse is echoed in the words of Colonel Efraim Eitan, who said in 2004, “we have to kill them all.”

Aaron Sofer, an Israeli so-called intellectual and political advisor, insisted in 2018 that “we have to kill and kill and kill. All day, every day.”

When I was in Gaza, I saw a little boy no more than nine years old whose hands and part of his face had been blown off from a booby-trapped can of food that soldiers had left behind for Gaza’s starving children. I later learned that they had also left poisoned food for people in Shujaiyya, and in the 1980s and ’90s, Israeli soldiers had left booby-trapped toys in southern Lebanon that exploded when excited children picked them up.

The harm they do is diabolical, and yet they expect you to believe they are the victims. Invoking Europe’s Holocaust and screaming antisemitism, they expect you to suspend fundamental human reason to believe that the daily sniping of children with so-called “kill shots” and the bombing of entire neighborhoods that bury families alive and wipe out whole bloodlines is self-defense.

They want you to believe that a man who had not eaten a thing in over 72 hours, who kept fighting even when all he had was one functioning arm, that this man was motivated by some innate savagery and irrational hatred or jealousy of Jews, rather than the indomitable yearning to see his people free in their own homeland.

It’s clear to me that we’re not here to debate whether Israel is an apartheid or genocidal state. This debate is ultimately about the worth of Palestinian lives; about the worth of our schools, research centers, books, art, and dreams; about the worth of the homes we worked all our lives to build and which contain the memories of generations; about the worth of our humanity and our agency; the worth of our bodies and ambitions.

Because if the roles were reversed — if Palestinians had spent the last eight decades stealing Jewish homes, expelling, oppressing, imprisoning, poisoning, torturing, raping and killing Jews; if Palestinians had killed an estimated 300,000 Jews in one year, targeted their journalists, their thinkers, their healthcare workers, their athletes, their artists, bombed every Israeli hospital, university, library, museum, cultural center, synagogue, and simultaneously set up an observation platform where people came to watch their slaughter as if a tourist attraction;

if Palestinians had corralled Jews by the hundreds of thousands into flimsy tents, bombed them in so-called safe zones, burned them alive, cut off their food, water, and medicine;

if Palestinians made Jewish children wander barefoot with empty pots; made them gather the flesh of their parents into plastic bags; made them bury their siblings, cousins, and friends; made them sneak out from their tents in the middle of the night to sleep on their parents’ graves; made them pray for death just to join their families and not be alone in this terrible world anymore, and terrorized them so utterly that their children lose their hair, lose their memory, lose their minds, and made those as young as four and five years old die of heart attacks;

if we mercilessly forced their NICU babies to die, alone in hospital beds, crying until they could cry no more, dead and decomposed in the same spot;

if Palestinians used wheat-flour aid trucks to lure starving Jews, then opened fire on them when they gathered to collect a day’s bread; if Palestinians finally allowed a food delivery into a shelter with hungry Jews, then set fire to the entire shelter and the aid truck before anyone could taste the food;

if a Palestinian sniper bragged about blowing out 42 Jewish kneecaps in one day as one Israeli soldier did in 2019; if a Palestinian admitted to CNN that he ran over hundreds of Jews with his tank, their squished flesh lingering in the tank treads;

if Palestinians were systematically raping Jewish doctors, patients, and other captives with hot metal rods, jagged and electrified sticks, and fire extinguishers, sometimes raping to death, as happened with Dr. Adnan Al-Bursh and others;

if Jewish women were forced to give birth in filth, get C-sections or leg amputations without anesthesia; if we destroyed their children then decorated our tanks with their toys; if we killed or displaced their women then posed in their lingerie…

if the world were watching the livestreamed, systematic annihilation of Jews in real time, there would be no debating whether that constituted terrorism or genocide.

And yet two Palestinians — myself and Mohammad el-Kurd — showed up here to do just that, enduring the indignity of debating those who think our only life choices should be to leave our homeland, submit to their supremacy, or die politely and quietly.

But you would be wrong to think that I came to convince you of anything. The house resolution, though well-meaning and appreciated, is of little consequence in the midst of this holocaust of our time.

I came in the spirit of Malcolm X and Jimmy Baldwin, both of whom stood here and in Cambridge before I was born, facing finely dressed, well-spoken monsters who harbored the same supremacist ideologies as Zionism — these notions of entitlement and privilege, of being divinely favored, blessed, or chosen.

I’m here for the sake of history. To speak to generations not yet born and for the chronicles of this extraordinary time where the carpet bombing of defenseless indigenous societies is legitimized.

I’m here for my grandmothers, both of whom died as penniless refugees while foreign Jews lived in their stolen homes.

And I also came to speak directly to zionists here and everywhere.

We let you into our homes when your own countries tried to murder you and everyone else turned you away. We fed and clothed you, gave you shelter, and we shared the bounty of our land with you, and when the time was ripe, you kicked us out of our own homes and homeland, then you killed and robbed and burned and looted our lives.

You carved out our hearts because it is clear you do not know how to live in the world without dominating others.

You have crossed all lines and nurtured the most vile of human impulses, but the world is finally glimpsing the terror we have endured at your hands for so long, and they are seeing the reality of who you are, who you’ve always been. They watch in utter astonishment the sadism, the glee, the joy, and pleasure with which you conduct, watch, and cheer the daily details of breaking our bodies, our minds, our future, our past.

But no matter what happens from here, no matter what fairytales you tell yourself and tell the world, you will never truly belong to that land. You will never understand the sacredness of the olive trees, which you’ve been cutting down and burning for decades just to spite us and to break our hearts a little more. No one native to that land would dare do such a thing to the olives. No one who belongs to that region would ever bomb or destroy such ancient heritage as Baalbak or Bittir, or destroy ancient cemeteries as you destroy ours, like the Anglican cemetery in Jerusalem or the resting place of ancient Muslim scholars and warriors in Maamanillah. Those who come from that land do not desecrate the dead; that’s why my family for centuries were the caretakers of the Jewish cemetery in the Mount of Olives, as labors of faith and care, for what we know is part of our ancestry and story.

Your ancestors will always be buried in your actual homelands of Poland, Ukraine, and elsewhere around the world from whence you came. The mythos and folklore of the land will always be alien to you.

You will never be literate in the sartorial language of the thobes we wear, that sprang from the land through our foremothers over centuries—every motif, design, and pattern speaking to the secrets of local lore, flora, birds, rivers, and wildlife.

What your real estate agents call in their high-priced listings “old Arab home” will always hold in their stones the stories and memories of our ancestors who built them. The ancient photos and paintings of the land will never contain you.

You will never know how it feels to be loved and supported by those who have nothing to gain from you, and in fact, everything to lose. You will never know the feeling of masses all over the world pouring into the streets and stadiums to chant and sing for your freedom; and it is not because you are Jewish, as you try to make the world believe, but because you are depraved violent colonizers who think your Jewishness entitles you to the home my grandfather and his brothers built with their own hands on lands that had been in our family for centuries. It is because Zionism is a blight onto Judaism and indeed onto humanity.

You can change your names to sound more relevant to the region and you can pretend falafel and hummus and zaatar are your ancient cuisines, but in the recesses of your being, you will always feel the sting of this epic forgery and theft. That’s why even the drawings of our children, hung on walls at the UN or in a hospital ward, send your leaders and lawyers into hysteric meltdowns.

You will not erase us, no matter how many of us you kill and kill and kill, all day every day. We are not the rocks Chaim Weizmann thought you could clear from the land. We are its very soil. We are her rivers and her trees and her stories, because all of that was nurtured by our bodies and our lives over millennia of continuous, uninterrupted habitation of that patch of earth between the Jordan and Mediterranean waters. From our Canaanite, our Hebrew, our Philistine, and our Phoenician ancestors, to every conqueror or pilgrim who came and went, who married or raped, loved, enslaved, converted between religions, settled or prayed in our land, leaving pieces of themselves in our bodies and our heritage, the fabled, tumultuous stories of that land are quite literally in our DNA. You cannot kill or propagandize that away, no matter what death technology you use or what Hollywood and corporate media arsenals you deploy.

Someday, your impunity and arrogance will end. Palestine will be free; she will be restored to her multi-religious, multi-ethnic pluralistic glory; we will restore and expand the trains that run from Cairo to Gaza to Jerusalem, Haifa, Tripoli, Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Kuwait, Sanaa, and so on; we will put an end to the zionist American war machine of domination, expansion, extraction, pollution, and looting.

. . .And you will either leave, or you will finally learn to live with others as equals.

Susan Abulhawa’s Speech Was Partially Censored

It turns out that the Oxford Union originally posted Susan’s full speech on their YouTube channel, where it had over a million views, but then removed it and uploaded an edited version with parts of Susan’s speech removed – the parts the Zionists did NOT want you to hear. You can watch Susan discuss the parts of her speech that were removed and why it matters in THIS brilliant interview with Katie Halper (who happens to be Jewish).