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Yuval Abraham gives his acceptance speech after winning the Documentary Feature Film award for "No Other Land" during the 97th Annual Oscars as Basel Adra looks on, on March 2, 2025. (Image: Screenshot)

“No Other Land” won a well-deserved Oscar, but co-director Yuval Abraham’s speech epitomized liberal Zionist hasbara, centering the needs of Israelis over Palestinian freedom, while undermining the resistance of the Palestinian subjects of the film.

Palestinians gather in the debris of Palestinian prisoner Younes Hilan's home in the village of Hajja, east of the West Bank city of Qalqilya. Israeli forces demolished the two-story house on May 3, 2023. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)

As we commemorate 75 years of catastrophe, we also recognize 75 years of sumud, the Arabic word for “steadfastness” that captures Palestinians defiant resilience.

Palestinians celebrate the end of the eight-day escalation with Israeli forces in Gaza City, November 21, 2012. (Photo: Majdi Fathi/APA Images)

“Light in Gaza: Writings out of Fire” is a hopeful gift from Gaza, reminding us that all of Israel’s power has not, and will not, defeat the Palestinian will to rise and the determination to create a new society where all can thrive.  

Fans gather in the streets of Doha, Qatar holding Moroccan and Palestinian flags ahead of the World Cup match between Morocco and Portugal on December 10, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

We can rejoice that Morocco has catapulted Africa and the Arab World into World Cup history, but if we support Palestine, we must also support the Sahrawi people’s struggle for liberation.

Students at Cal State University Long Beach celebrate the student government passing a resolution to divest university funds from corporations working in Israel and the settlements, May 10, 2017. ( Photo: Stephen Carr / Daily News / SCNG )

Small activist victories may feel insignificant compared to worsening conditions in Palestine, but they reflect the shifting political terrain as more and more recognize the reality of Israeli apartheid.

Mohammed Amer, star of the new Netflix show "Mo." (Photo: Netflix)

The new Netflix series “Mo” is a fresh, complex, politically nuanced depiction of the Palestinian refugee experience in the US.

Protest against the war in Ukraine in front of the White House, February 27, 2022 (Photo: Amaury Laporte/Flickr)

Anger can move one to action, but bitterness? Nada Elia struggles with the world’s, and her own, reaction to the invasion of Ukraine.

Palestinian women rally to mark International Women's Day in Gaza City on March 8, 2011. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

This International Women’s Day, let us affirm that there can be no free homeland without free women, without free queers, and without free children as they rise above binaries, reach out across boundaries, laugh at society’s archaisms, and model the alternative.