Aljazeera Source What I Witnessed in Gaza Is a Holocaust: Palestinian Writer Susan Abulhawa
Mar 7, 2024
We speak with Palestinian novelist, poet and activist Susan Abulhawa, who is in Cairo and just returned from two weeks in Gaza. “What’s happening to people isn’t just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood, of their whole society,” says Abulhawa. “What I witnessed personally in Rafah and some of the middle areas is incomprehensible, and I will call it a holocaust — and I don’t use that word lightly. But it is absolutely that.”
Nada Tarbush Speech at UN: Western Support for Israel is Underpinned by Racism
Feb 22, 2024
Meeting of the Arms Trade Treaty, Geneva, Switzerland
This speech by Nada Tarbush at the Arms Trade Treaty, Geneva Switzerland will go down in history.
In front of a room filled with states from around the world, she exposes the racist ideology that underpins Western support for Israel.
What is the purpose of continuing to send arms to Israel, she asks? “Is it apathy, indifference, a head in the sand, continuation of business as usual? Is it profits? The desire to make more profits no matter the cost, legal, moral or reputational?
Or is it ideology, emanating from a racist logic whereby different values are placed on different lives? People of the Global South, or of a certain skin colour or nationality are seen as more disposable, less deserving of life, empathy, outrage or respect for the law?
There is no diplomatic way of calling out racism. It is time to call a spade a spade.”
“…If you choose to continue sending weapons to Israel as it annihilates the Palestinian of Gaza, then you do not get to ever pretend again that you support international law, care about human life, or have moral convictions that apply universally”.
Noura Erakat’s Speech “In This Moment”
Nov 3, 2023 On Wednesday, 1 November, the Palestine Festival of Literature an event in New York titled, “But We Must Speak: On Palestine and the Mandates of Conscience”. Thalie Diaz, a conversation between Rashid Khalidi and Ta-Nehisi Coates moderated by Michelle Alexander, a letter from the JVP Rabbinical Council read by Morgan Bacchinis, and an excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1967 address, “Beyond Vietnam” read by Rashad Hoggard. Jadaliyya Co-Editor, Noura Erakat, also joined and delivered an address titled, “In This Moment”.
