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Palestinian youths play music on the rubble of destroyed houses in Deir al-Balah destroyed in an Israeli airstrike on May 13, 2023. (Photo: Abdelrahman Alkahlout/APA Images)

The Palestinian people practice resistance through “sumud” and steadfastness in every aspect of their lives, including in music. After October 7, Palestinian music can serve as the moral compass pointing toward decolonization.

Palestinian families fleeing Rafah toward Deir Al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, on February 12, 2024. (Photo: Naaman Omar/APA Images)

Many Palestinians are fleeing Rafah ahead of Israel’s impending invasion, but when they return to their destroyed neighborhoods they still face bombardment. “We escaped death to walk into a different kind of death,” Jamila Eleywa tells Mondoweiss.

Two Palestinian nuns look down on the dead body of one of the victims of the Israeli bombing of the Greek Orthodox Church in Gaza, October 20, 2023.

Palestinian Christians are viewed by the West as “bad Christians” because they refuse to act as a minority. To be considered a “good Muslim” or a “good Christian” in the Middle East, you must be aligned with Israel and the U.S.