Mohammed El-Kurd
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first heard Jul 2023
last heard 24 May
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And so we resort to sending our kids who will not threaten and who will not trigger the biases they have against Muslims and Arab people, which Palestinians, even though we're not all Muslim, are racialized as Muslim. And this is why we emphasize the deaths of women and children as though the deaths of our men does not count or does not matter.
All of these things, I think the new generation of Palestinians is rebelling against. I think words like, you know, I think it's loaded. It's loaded language, anger and angry and hate and so on and so forth, because it mischaracterizes people and it kind of delegitimizes them a little bit. You know, I think the real anger is the bulldozer. bulldozing through my house.
I think the real anger is the 18-year-old soldier who refuses to see me as a human being and strip searches me every chance they get. That's where the real anger lies. And I'm quite honestly proud of our unabashedness and our refusal to bow our heads or bury our heads in the sand. I think that's the only way forward.
Absolutely. And it has been throughout history. It has been.
You know, it's convenient to market what's happening in Palestine as a religious conflict, because it allows the listener the luxury of believing that this is an ancient, complicated thing that stretches thousands and thousands of years ago. But the fact of the matter is,
the people who invented Zionism, who pioneered the Zionist movement, who called for emigration and settling into Palestine, a lot of them were atheists. A lot of them were not religious at all. And the leaders of the Israeli state today, a lot of them are atheists. And a lot of them are secular and so on and so forth. It's easy to say that this is
you know, about Muslims and Jews fighting over the land and so on and so forth. But it's not, it's about the land itself and it's about people being forced out of their homes.
Of course he said that.
Absolutely, I disagree.
I watched the first 20 minutes and then I couldn't do it anymore. What was interesting about Netanyahu is that he said being anti-Zionist is like saying I'm okay with the Jews. I just don't believe the Jews have a right to form their own state. That's like saying I'm okay with Americans. I'm just not okay with Americans having their own state.
And there is so much wrong with that statement in the sense that Jewish people are a religious group and Americans and being an American is a nationality that consists of a diversity of religions and and so on and so forth, first of all. And the second thing that's wrong with that statement is the whole idea that states somehow have a right to exist or whatever. It's such a distraction.
You have people getting shot in the street. You have millions and millions of people besieged. You have people losing their homes. You have people who are held in Israeli prisons without trial. or charge indefinitely, but the conversations that are being held on the Hill, the conversation that are being held on CNN are, does Israel has a right to exist?
Or like, why would you negate Israel's having a right to exist? That's one. Now, of course, I just find it's ridiculous, again, that opposing a secular political movement that was explicitly colonialist, expansionist, exclusive, and racist through the words of its own authors is somehow... And also, again, opposing such a political movement that is...
quite young and quite recent, is somehow equivalent to opposing a religion that is thousands and thousands of years old. But it is convenient, again, for Israeli politicians. to frame us who oppose Zionism, a form of racism and bigotry, as anti-Semites. But I can guarantee you Benjamin Netanyahu has no problem with anti-Semitism.
This is the same man who has no problem getting on stage and shaking hands with Pastor John Hagee, doing webinars with Pastor John Hagee. For those who don't know, Pastor John Hagee is the founder of Christians United for Israel, who has said on multiple occasions that Hitler was a hunter, who was sent to hunt the Jews, who said on multiple occasions that
Jewish people are going to perish in hell. All of this is very viable by Google. And this is one of the Israeli regime's closest allies. So the Israeli regime does not have a problem with anti-Semites when it serves its interests. It has a problem. If you look at evangelicals or Christian Zionism at large, anti-Semitism lies at the heart of Christian Zionism.
It's the idea that we want to drive all of the Jews outside of the United States so that Armageddon could happen or whatever the fuck. This accusation has been a muzzle. It has been used as a muzzle to silence political opposition and to stifle political advocacy for the liberation of Palestine.
And a lot of the time people get caught up in denouncing it and in justifying themselves and disclaimers and so on and so forth that you lose the point, that you're distracted from the focal point that there is an ongoing colonialism happening where people every single day are killed. I cannot count this morning a kid was shot in Palestine.
It's embarrassing even for me that I don't even know the numbers here. But this muzzle has been effective, and I think the only righteous option is to oppose these labels, these smear campaigns that target us. I myself have been labeled an anti-Semite by the ADL. And I mean, like, if you want to talk about that at surface level, people will say, like,
wow, the ADL, Anti-Defamation League, condemned you. But people do not look at the history of the Anti-Defamation League, do not look at the present of the Anti-Defamation League. The fact that they are... the largest non-governmental police training department in the country, where they train police in racial profiling and militarism.
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