Growing up, many Arab diaspora homes in Kenya watched Middle-Eastern satellite TV for connection to our lands. Shireen Abu Akleh helped me understand that we were living, but this wasn’t our home.
Today’s New York Times includes a collector’s item: an actual headline that reads “Israeli Police Attack Mourners”
The perpetual spiral of global violence is facilitated by the West’s indifference towards the suffering of its own victims.
The idea of sanctioning Israel may appear a pipe dream, but two recent precedents show it is very possible.
This is Palestine, the land of martyrs
That embraces the fearless woman, Shireen Abu Akleh
Jen Psaki said the Biden Administration “regrets the intrusion into what should have been a peaceful procession” but didn’t condemn Israeli police violence at Shireen Abu Akleh’s funeral in Jerusalem.
The Western media reported that veteran Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh “died” on May 11, 2022, without mentioning who or what caused her death. Why?
Israeli police forces in occupied East Jerusalem attacked the funeral of slain Palestinian Shireen Abu Akleh, 51, on Friday afternoon, beating funeral goers and firing sound grenades into the procession.
Palestinians know too well what Zionism means, after living with the deadly consequences of this racist ideology.
Shireen Abu Akleh’s assassination and the barbaric assault on her funeral are but incidents in Israel’s unceasing 74+ year ethnic cleansing campaign of Palestine.