16/05/2018
Today marks 70 years of Palestinian resistance to occupation by Israeli forces.
To mark this day, read the Nakba issue, prefaced by this statement by George Abraham and Tariq Luthun, and including a list of ways to help Palestinian grassroots organizations:
"Today marks 70 years since al-Nakba was executed against an unsuspecting people.
Known in english as “the Catastrophe,” 1948 was the year in which hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were forcibly displaced from their homes by the hands of what is currently a colonial, ethnocratic apartheid state. Countless were slaughtered, r***d, and wounded in the process, and the ensuing Palestinian diaspora & refugee crises were born. On this day each year, we, the children of the Palestinian diaspora, unite in our visceral and ancestral grief; our visceral and ancestral resilience.
The following is a collection of poems recited by several unique voices from across the Palestinian diaspora, primarily in America. These poets weave through space and time, navigating ancestral memory and lived experience; these poets reconcile nostalgia and love for the land of Palestine simultaneous to the physical and emotional distances displacement has forced onto their existence. These poets grieve and grow, both collectively and as distinct members of the diaspora with varying experiences. Some poets even write in voices outside their own; Al-Naji’s piece, for instance, is in the persona of diaspora itself. In accessing these voices, both internal and external, these poets write the unwritten histories, and tell the stories that only they can tell. This is what healing and restoration looks like; this is what it looks like to exist in the face of all that seeks to erase us.
George Abraham & Tariq Luthun"
https://mapsforteeth.com/2018/05/15/nakba-70/
(“Gaza Leads Us Home” by Leila Abdelrazaq) Today marks 70 years since al-Nakba was executed against an unsuspecting people. Known in english as “the Catastrophe,” 1948 was the year in w…
