Bitch, Do I Look Like I Condemn?
Palestine gives birth to "little Gazas" worldwide
A group of kids, no more than fifteen years old, yell to the Egyptian watchtower guards located on the Rafah- Egypt border, "Throw us your weapons. We'll fight the enemy ourselves!"
Our Egyptian besiegers are technically on our side, by the way. The people, at least, but their Western masters paralyze them. Don't Zionists occupy us all after all?
I want to die now!" We want to eat! we want something to eat!" A child in Rafah climbs an electricity pole along the Southern border to shout out to the soldiers on the other side. "For God's sake, Egypt, come on!" Another group of children chants as they bang on the steel fence, urging the guards to make a move against the Zionist usurper.
Most of the children in these videos wanted food, others protection, and some decided they would take matters into their own hands. How does one have the gall to condemn any of those kids?
"Children told me that fully armed Egyptian soldiers were weeping in helplessness," Dr. Mustafa Elmasri from Gaza recounts. And I thought to myself, how cruel the world is, that starving children under bombardment felt fully grown armed men were helpless. What big hearts they have.
But soldier tears won't save us.
This week, as solidarity encampments for Gaza are springing up at universities worldwide, it's the students who have become our teachers. Life is not supposed to go on as usual with a genocide in your backyard, one that our governments participate in or, in the case of America, are the architects of. The students recognize they are, in fact, not helpless. And Doing nothing would be complicity.
Some find it easier to stand with the bodybags of Palestinians, but students are standing with the Palestinians here, right now. The Western empire begrudgingly referred to them as "little Gazas" that have risen on campuses across America, and it's an honor.
"These little Gazas are disgusting cesspools of antisemitism," US Senator Tom Cotton said in his speech exposing the greatest imperialist dog whistle of our time that has been weaponized to silence Palestinians and project European crimes on us for decades.
Prioritizing antisemitism or Jewish feelings in the context of Palestine and during "israel's" ongoing genocide of Palestine is equivalent to worrying about German feelings during the Nazi holocaust — it is a form of anti-Palestinian racism. And we're getting mass annihilated for it. We did not kill six million Jews; the Europeans did.
The Wall Street Journal ran an op-ed arguing that Hamas and Hezbollah are "working with and grooming pro-Palestinian activists," — implying that people are being manipulated into standing against the most well-documented mass lynching of our times.
Mayor Eric Adams claims that there is a global movement "influenced by those who are professionals at radicalizing our children." — Freedom as a conspiracy — in what other instances in history have we witnessed the condemnation of a people striving to unshackle themselves from their oppressors labeled out of their minds?
But it's "israel's" ambassador to the UN statement, which is most telling, "We always knew Hamas hides in schools. We just didn't realize it not only in Gaza; but Harvard, Columbia, and many elite universities."
Against the empire's savagery, provocations from paid pro-genocide agitators, and the urging of politicians for National Guard intervention and violent Zionist threats, what relevance do peaceful protesters have anyway?
The only valid form of protest can't be the one the genocidaries approve of. Besides, what do calls for non-violence, or peace, really mean in the face of the barbaric genocidal colonists who have imposed a 75-year-long occupation, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing on Palestine other than a spineless endorsement for genocide?
Please don't shed your tears on our bodybags if you can't stand with us when we are still alive.
Numerous mass graves continue to be uncovered, with heads decapitated, bodies found skinned and their organs stolen, many corpses zip-tied with their hands behind their backs, some with bandages and catheters intact, indicating they were patients, many showing signs that they were buried alive, most were women and kids. And while the US just passed the latest $26 billion in aid for the Zionist colony, the last remaining university in Gaza was demolished, bombs still raining down — a liberal cracker shrieked, "Where is your decorum?"
And it's always the demons shredding children the size of birds with bombs made to destroy military barracks, huffing about peace, etiquette, law and order, and our grammar.
Aaron, the ghoul, yelled, "Won't someone think of the broken glass?" Suzy from Orange County suggested the protests take place in a faraway park so that she won’t miss brunch because of traffic. And Clair, the descendant of enslavers, cried for Balfour's painting.
When empire ghouls insist on peaceful protests, they mean they want them to be irrelevant. Or is it their suffocating privilege that has spared them from ever needing to resort to violence for survival?
And lest we forget Frank, the confident liberal who wants peace for the baby killers and their victims. The I- am-pro- white-supremacist- settler- colonization- and- pro-Palestine- non-stance guy. The soulless asshole equating colonial violence with resistance. The useless idiot suggesting Palestinians throw flowers at Zionist occupation tanks running over them for sport. We can't throw flowers at tanks coming to kill us.
On what planet does Frank live to have the audacity to condemn civilians taking up arms to defend themselves from the same weapons that have been used to slaughter us for 75 years?
Did you know that Palestinians recycle bombs and shrapnel intended to kill them from behind colonial cages and dismantle imperial tanks with their damn hands? It's taken Palestinians decades to organize and conduct October 7th, all for the genocidaires to claim victim and racists to bothsides….and condemn.
So go, little Gazas, go. And bring the empire to its knees.
Dear reader, if you can't fight, the least you can do is slap someone who "condemns" any tactics Palestinians use to survive the demon Zionist occupation. Solidarity with my people of Palestine, the students protesting across the globe, and all oppressed people fighting for liberation. Today, like every day, I cast my vote for violence until we are all free.
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A single image that depicts the 75-year-long white supremacist settler colony: Zionist occupation runs over one of the prisoners who were arrested in the Zaytoun neighborhood, east of Gaza, with a bulldozer. — Graphic Image Warning
