Mohammed El-Kurd
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2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 24 May
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The fact that they have historically and continue to have engaged in surveillance on Black liberation movements, on anti-apartheid South African activists, most recently in Charlottesville when white supremacists were marching. and chanting anti-Semitic shit, the ADL advised local police departments to spy on the black organizers opposing the white supremacists.
This is, again, all verifiable on the internet. Go to droptheadl.org.
No, it's the guys. I don't think the Apartheid Defense League is really our most progressive.
Yeah, in case you didn't know.
I mean, I think it's obviously wrong. I don't know. It's this idea that I even have to clarify what I think about antisemitism that doesn't sit right well with me. I think it's completely unfortunate and wrong that Jewish people have been persecuted across history.
Amy Cesar talks about this a lot, the exceptionalization of Hitler. Hitler is a deplorable, I don't know, condemnable, rotten, racist, horrible human being that belongs in the depths of hell. Obviously, that goes without saying, but... I am allowed analogy and I'm allowed to say whatever I want. Now, I don't necessarily think that such an analogy is a good strategy to have.
But at the time, the context came in 2021 when Israeli soldiers and policemen and settlers were literally burning down our neighborhood. Again, verifiable by Google. And I tweeted it. And I also, I remember I tweeted something, I hope every single one of them dies. And to this day, like this is some kind of, you know, gotcha for me.
As if I should have tweeted like, oh, here's the apple pie for every single soldier that's throwing tear gas in my house. You know? There is... There is such an exceptionalism when it comes to Palestinians. We're not allowed analogy. We're not allowed expression. We're not allowed armed resistance. We're not allowed peaceful resistance. We're not allowed to boycott because that's antisemitic.
We're not allowed to do anything. So what are we allowed? If I can't boycott, and that's against American law now to boycott, and if I can't pick up a rifle because that's against the law, and if I can't even tweet my frustration out, what am I allowed to do? Maybe Netanyahu can send me a manual he's happy with.
Well, it depends on how you define terrorism, right? Across history, one man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist. I don't necessarily subscribe to the definition of terrorism. If a foreign army is in my neighborhood, which it's not supposed to be, and they're shooting live ammunition at my house, I'm allowed to do what I'm allowed to do.
And again, this is yet another case of Palestinian exceptionalism, because when it comes to Ukraine, people have no problem seeing Ukrainians defending their homes, seeing Ukrainians dying for their land, seeing Ukrainians making makeshift molotovs on Sky News. Sky News was running molotov-making cocktails.
The New York Times ran an article interviewing a Ukrainian psychologist who said that hatred, I'm paraphrasing, but he said hatred for all Russians is actually a healthy outlet. The New York Post ran a headline championing a quote-unquote heroic Ukrainian suicide bomber. These things we would not even dream of as Palestinians. We are told to turn the other cheek time and time again.
We're told that we should continue living inside these enclaves without access to clean water, without access to the right to movement, without access to building permits, without our natural right to expansion, without... without a guarantee that if we leave our house, we're not going to be shot, and we're supposed to not do anything about it. That is absurd.
Any person watching this understands this completely. People understand that if somebody is attacking your home, you fight back. If somebody is attacking your family, you fight back. That is not. But again, who gets to call who a terrorist? Who gets to define terrorism? This is all about who has power. Who gets to write these laws? Who gets to write these definitions?
Why is it that American actions in Iraq is not called terrorism by American politicians? Violence is like this... mutating concept, you know, and it takes on many shapes and forms. And if it's in a uniform, if it speaks in English, if it has blonde hair, it's somehow acceptable. It's okay. We make movies about it. You know, we sell out tickets. We make games about it.
But if it's without a uniform, if it has a thick accent, if it has a beard, you know, that's condemnable. That's wrong. That's terrorism, you know?
In general, I think it has been. But I think, you know, I believe in fighting on all fronts. I don't think violence alone is going to bring about change. I think... There's so much to do in culture and shifting public opinion. There's so much to do in media and fighting back against media erasure and censorship. There's so much to do diplomatically and politically.
And I think I would be naive if... I don't take the power imbalance into consideration. One side has makeshift weapons, and the other side is one of the most sophisticated armies in the world. So I don't know how effective violence could be in this case.
We've turned the other cheek generation after generation. There is this Zionist trope that is used against us. They say Palestinian rejectionism. They say that we reject everything.
But if you look at the history, like our leadership, the Palestinian Authority has given up inch after inch, has compromised on acre after acre, has signed deal after deal after deal after deal, and still there is no peace. So turning the other cheek is not the most effective method in my book.
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