‘A new abyss’ the brilliant Rashid Khalidi on
Gaza and the hundred years’ war on Palestine

While much has changed since 7 October, the horrific events of the past six months are not unique, and do not stand outside history

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A thread.

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“The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do.

I’ve watched so many dead Palestinian children being pulled from rubble in the past weeks that when my kid’s nursery sent a photo of little red paint handprints, my first thought was of slaughter. Sharing this video as an all-too-brief antidote to the horrors

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When you see the images from Gaza, day after day, it’s easy to feel despair, futility & desensitization. You think nothing can stop the madness, so you turn away. Don’t.

Bear witness. Organize. Protest. Yell. Boycott. Reject a world that justifies ethnic cleansing & genocide.

The wildly divergent histories of Israel-Palestine that have climbed US bestseller lists theguardian.com/books/2023/nov…

We just made history. In our thousands and in our MILLIONS 🇵🇸 #CeasefireNOW