Wow. I feel like the media that my family sees just completely wiped out this side of the story. I keep getting ads from the Israeli perspective. But ethnic cleansing is just unforgivable. I’m really glad you shared these sources, so that I can see beneath all of the censoring.
your reading of this made me sob and ive shed countless tears for this madness and ethnic cleansing and genocide of this all. and these tears only fuel my motivation to keep going to keep protesting and to keep speaking up
Yes keep speaking. Feed your tears to the earth for she is thirsty for them. We are right to weep and wail, our watery bodies know to leak for the unending atrocities. As numbers soar, souls rise, names are lost, May all our tears fall generously to quench the earth.
there's never enough words to express sadness and anger and the frustration that injustice happening in real time provokes. your words made me tear up, thank you.
Your words truly touched me and it is so difficult to write down the wave of emotions I am feeling. The way the western media is completely filtered and catered to only one side is beyond unbelievable. Somehow it is "okay" to support and fund a genocide. I didn't expect to see history repeating itself and it is truly heartbreaking to see these world "leaders" stay silent during ethnic cleansing. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful piece.
Thank you for sharing your vulnerability here and on TikTok. I really admire your courage of authenticity, and I aspire to emulate that as well. Please don't lose hope. We are out here, though we may be scattered to the winds. Your wordsmithing is lovely and a gift to the world.
Ismatu, I’ve found a new favorite writer. This is the first of your pieces I’ve ever consumed. I listened to you while I made my bed and I found myself, involuntarily, repeating your lines back to you due to the weight with which they hit my soul. Everything in this piece is what I’ve been feeling the last three months. By the end of it I found myself, like you, falling to my knees and praying to God. Thank you.
Hello ismatu. I thought i would greet you. I love that i can greet you, and talk to you even from here, a distance crossed via internet. you said that even if you dint respond you di look- so hello. I am happy to build community eith you in this way through these means. It was nice to read another one of your works, as detrimental the messages may be. I love to feel my brain shift, the cogs turn, my actions redirect- my reconnection with others that hapoens through knowing their stories, their lives, their experineces- i am glad to have had that deliverence right here, to me through you and your work.Thank you again for your work. Well wishes be to you.
This labor doesn’t evaporate like alcohol on an open wound. But it sure does burn the same. Thank you. Because of you, I’m reminded of the sting of oppression that time grows numb to. Because of this labor, I too bare witness to these atrocities. I bare witness.
It's worth watching Zeteo on Substack. Mehdi Hasan's first interview was with Naledi Pandor, South Africa's foreign minister. The main topic was the murder of Palestinians, and that, as a survivor of Apartheid, Pandor recognises apartheid.
The USA is intimidating South Africa because of its case to the ICJ against Israel. Researching that led me to asking "Who controls South Africa?", and then its easy to see the global impact of the Israeli/Palestinian situation - https://www.mikehampton.co.uk/p/who-controls-south-africa-part-1-brenthurst
I hope my country stands brave in the face of threat.
Yep, We are genuinely living in the nightmare of the Palestinian people unable to do anything, as selfish, deranged, radical, xenophobic nationalists run this country, feeding us continuous lies. Am I supposed to believe there is a hell after this life while Palestinians are literally in hell?
Wow, I don't really know how to put my reaction to this into words, but I think every voice featured here did it beautifully
this really highlights how justice and empathy are very closely intertwined. my heart melted but at least i'm better knowing what i feel is human
Wow. I feel like the media that my family sees just completely wiped out this side of the story. I keep getting ads from the Israeli perspective. But ethnic cleansing is just unforgivable. I’m really glad you shared these sources, so that I can see beneath all of the censoring.
your reading of this made me sob and ive shed countless tears for this madness and ethnic cleansing and genocide of this all. and these tears only fuel my motivation to keep going to keep protesting and to keep speaking up
Yes keep speaking. Feed your tears to the earth for she is thirsty for them. We are right to weep and wail, our watery bodies know to leak for the unending atrocities. As numbers soar, souls rise, names are lost, May all our tears fall generously to quench the earth.
there's never enough words to express sadness and anger and the frustration that injustice happening in real time provokes. your words made me tear up, thank you.
Your words truly touched me and it is so difficult to write down the wave of emotions I am feeling. The way the western media is completely filtered and catered to only one side is beyond unbelievable. Somehow it is "okay" to support and fund a genocide. I didn't expect to see history repeating itself and it is truly heartbreaking to see these world "leaders" stay silent during ethnic cleansing. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful piece.
Thank you.
I am thankful for the expression of the terrible tragedy for truly what it is.
For it honestly describes how tragic it truly is...
For I can’t fathom nor hear or live well through these times
But I feel. There’s truly no words to excuse this violence.
“May the grief burn you alive...”
Is what I needed to hear.
Thank you for your labor of sharing and uplifting the voices of others who are suffering.
Thank you for sharing your vulnerability here and on TikTok. I really admire your courage of authenticity, and I aspire to emulate that as well. Please don't lose hope. We are out here, though we may be scattered to the winds. Your wordsmithing is lovely and a gift to the world.
“am i such an american needing a social media campaign to pay attention to an obvious genocide.”
im going to play this video time and time again, and let it marinate more and more. thank you for this.
Ismatu, I’ve found a new favorite writer. This is the first of your pieces I’ve ever consumed. I listened to you while I made my bed and I found myself, involuntarily, repeating your lines back to you due to the weight with which they hit my soul. Everything in this piece is what I’ve been feeling the last three months. By the end of it I found myself, like you, falling to my knees and praying to God. Thank you.
Hello ismatu. I thought i would greet you. I love that i can greet you, and talk to you even from here, a distance crossed via internet. you said that even if you dint respond you di look- so hello. I am happy to build community eith you in this way through these means. It was nice to read another one of your works, as detrimental the messages may be. I love to feel my brain shift, the cogs turn, my actions redirect- my reconnection with others that hapoens through knowing their stories, their lives, their experineces- i am glad to have had that deliverence right here, to me through you and your work.Thank you again for your work. Well wishes be to you.
This labor doesn’t evaporate like alcohol on an open wound. But it sure does burn the same. Thank you. Because of you, I’m reminded of the sting of oppression that time grows numb to. Because of this labor, I too bare witness to these atrocities. I bare witness.
Gwen. this is overwhelmingly heart-breaking. I want to do something.
It's worth watching Zeteo on Substack. Mehdi Hasan's first interview was with Naledi Pandor, South Africa's foreign minister. The main topic was the murder of Palestinians, and that, as a survivor of Apartheid, Pandor recognises apartheid.
The USA is intimidating South Africa because of its case to the ICJ against Israel. Researching that led me to asking "Who controls South Africa?", and then its easy to see the global impact of the Israeli/Palestinian situation - https://www.mikehampton.co.uk/p/who-controls-south-africa-part-1-brenthurst
I hope my country stands brave in the face of threat.
Yep, We are genuinely living in the nightmare of the Palestinian people unable to do anything, as selfish, deranged, radical, xenophobic nationalists run this country, feeding us continuous lies. Am I supposed to believe there is a hell after this life while Palestinians are literally in hell?