"We must stop watching Palestinian suffering as a form of emotional tourism. Seeing their pain this way depoliticizes their grievances and turns them into perpetual objects of a hypocritical gaze. Suffering is a political act crying for justice, not a 30-second spectacle of an empathetic discharge."
"If published, I will have to live with a predictable backlash calling me out for violating the imperial instruction of how to be a good Arab."
https://socialtextjournal.org/periscope_article/this-is-a-scream-and-i-dare-you-to-publish-it/
#Gaza #Palestine
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