HOPE COMES FROM THE “WATERMELON REVOLUTION”
April 29, 2024IN THE WORDS OF FRANCESCA ALBANESE:
“Hope comes from the 🍉”Watermelon Revolution” 🍉 (if its brave souls allow me to call it such).
“Recently: @columbia arrested students for protesting against Israel’s #GenocideinGaza and the university’s investments in Israeli apartheid. Universities in Europe are increasing their securitization and repression against students expressing solidarity with Palestine.
“Simultaneously, support from states, corporations and institutions for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza has continued. The #Ontario Legislature has banned keffiyehs; police in #Europe have arrested and punished individuals simply for exercising their right to peaceful protest and for asking for the consistent application of int’l law.
“What lessons are Western universities and governments imparting to their young citizens and students when they attack the very values and rights that are said to be foundational to Western societies?
“This sustained, global Palestinian-driven mobilization is a bold new phase in an ongoing wave of solidarity with the Palestinian struggle against Israel’s decades-old system of occupation, apartheid and settler-colonialism and for the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people to justice, freedom, dignity.
“Those under occupation, those with a second class citizenship in Israel or elsewhere, the refugees and the rest of the diaspora; they are all “orphans of a homeland” (in the words of #EdwardSaid), and all they demand is justice, rights, freedom and non-discrimination. This is viscerally understood and profoundly felt across generations, and the YOUTH is taking the lead in voicing the humanity which would otherwise be lost. Mass intersectional consciousness today, including Jewish communities worldwide, has placed Palestinian emancipation at the center of the global struggle for justice, including climate justice, and for human rights and dignity for all, not just a privileged few.
GOD BLESS YOU FRANCESCA AND KEEP YOU SAFE
🙏🏼🍉🇵🇸🍉❤️
@francesca.albanese.unsr.opt
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