HAASMEEN
“Would you rather be illusioned or disillusioned? Would you rather have illusions about the world or see things as they are?
To get disillusioned is actually a good thing… So what I am saying to people is don’t be afraid to be disillusioned. It’s better to be disillusioned than illusioned. Don’t be afraid to be dis-identified. Don’t identify with something outside of yourself to the extent that you become uncritical.”
— Dr. Gabor Maté
RESOURCES
This is a living page of resources. Below are articles, posts and videos that have supported my unlearning and relearning.
ARTICLES/REPORTS
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement [Angela Davis]
How The ADL’s Anti-Palestinian Advocacy Helped Shape U.S. Terror Laws [The Intercept]
How to donate to the Sudan refugee response [Al Jaeera]
In Gaza, ‘Queering the Map’ Reveals Heartbreaking Notes of LGBT Love and Loss [TIME]
Martin Luther King Jr. Spent The Last Year of His Life Detested by the Liberal Establishment [The Intercept]
Palestine as a Queer Struggle [US Campaign for Palestinian Rights]
Shared Front For Liberation = Congo X Palestine X Sudan [Students for Justice in Palestine - UChicago}
Sudan Resources [Google Doc]
The Current Situation in Palestine [Central Intelligence Agency Report]
The U.S. Border Patrol and an Israeli Military Contractor are Putting a Native American Reservation Under “Persistent Surveillance” [The Intercept]
What Does It Mean to Be Palestinian Now? [The Nation]
Excerpt from former Senator James Abourezk’s report
The Relentless Israeli Propaganda Machine:
On May 14, 1948 - Israel declared itself to be an exclusive Jewish state. Eleven minutes later, President Truman extended US recognition to Israel. Thus, thirty-one years after British promises of independence for Palestine, the Arabs witnessed the ultimate betrayal - the establishment…of a new colony by the world’s big powers, controlled, not by Middle Eastern natives, but by Europeans. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs who had lived in peace on their own land were destined never to see their homeland again. What had begun as the Zionist movement’s clever manipulation of American and British politicians ended as a mechanism for the death and suffering of countless numbers of human beings in the Middle East.
In March of 1948, Plan D was authorised by Israeli leader David Ben-Gurion. This was part of a planned strategy to displace indigenous Palestinians from their homeland. It is the blueprint for the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine. During the Nakba of 1948 (commemorated on May 15), Israel murdered over 15,000 Palestinians.
FILMS + PODCASTS + VIDEOS
Against Erasure: A Photographic Memory of Palestine Before the Nakba [Haymarket Books]
Israelism Film: When two young American Jews raised to unconditionally love Israel witness the brutal way Israel treats Palestinians, their lives take sharp left turns. They join a movement of young American Jews battling the old guard to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel, revealing a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity.
From the river to the sea (who gon check me boo?): Someday We'll All Be Free [Hoodrat to Headwrap: A Decolonized Podcast] From Congo to Tigray to Darfur, there are multiple genocides happening on the continent of Africa and the United States' government is complicit in ALL of them just as they aid and abet Israel's genocide against the Palestinian People to shore up its political and economic power in the region. There is a genocide against Black people here in the US, the same US that still has a one million dollar bounty on Assata Shakur but ya'll don't hear me tho.
Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) Full Documentary
Sudan's History & Context for Today's Conflict | AIDA ABBASHAR | [afikra عفكرة Podcast]
Understanding Jewish Disillusionment with Israel (w/ Gabor Maté) [Bad Faith Podcast]
More resources to be added. Stay tuned!