In the sterile field of medicine, mention of culpability or politics amounts to contamination. In the colonial situation, doctors can’t afford this narrow a definition of health, or of life–diagnosis requires context.
A new poll shows that a majority of Americans want a ceasefire, but The White House is sending Israel more weapons and declaring more innocent civilians will die.
As Israel’s Gaza assault enters day 20, food, clean water, and fuel are running out. Oxfam warns “millions of civilians are being collectively punished in full view of the world, there can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war.”
Today, Al-Jazeera Bureau Chief Wael El-Dahdouh was reporting live in Gaza when an Israeli airstrike killed his wife and two children. Now, other journalists also fear their families could be targeted solely for them doing their job.
I spent a day in the Haifa court trying to see a friend who has been detained for two weeks on charges of publishing lines from a poem on Facebook. I can report the State of Israel is functioning as intended.
At least 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza are currently unable to access essential healthcare, as other women struggle to find basic menstrual hygiene products. The women’s healthcare crisis in Gaza is nearly catastrophe.
The number of Palestinians killed in Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza Strip surpassed 6,000 people as Gaza’s Ministry of Health announced the death of 700 people in just 24 hours.
In solidarity with those who fought racial apartheid in South Africa, bell hooks emphasized, “[The Black American] struggle is also a struggle of memory against forgetting.” The same is true for Palestine.
I want to believe that mass protests, strikes, and boycotts will be more effective than violence at liberating the colonized. Yet how many liberation movements have felt forced to choose violence as the only path to freedom? Would that it were otherwise.
It’s easy to show solidarity with powerless victims who endure their suffering with stoicism. But Palestinians chose to break free of their cage, even if it shattered the image of perfect victimhood.