Randa Abdel-Fattah
In the face of Western hypocrisy, the people stand with Gaza
Iconic landmarks and buildings across Western cities around the world - from New York’s Empire State Building to the EU headquarters in Brussels and the federal parliament house in Sydney - are being lit up in blue and white as an official show of “support” for Israel.
This response is, unfortunately, predictable from Western powers, who have long shielded Israel from any form of accountability for its decades-long brutal military occupation of Palestinian land.
Still, there will come a day when this moment will be marked in history books as the shameful rallying of imperial, settler colonial statesbehind a violent, racist, apartheid settler colony regime, one that is founded and sustained on the domination and oppression of the Indigenous Palestinian people of the land...
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This excerpt is taken from In the face of 'Western democracy, the people stand with Gaza', by Randa Abdel-Fattah, published in New Arab, 10 October 2023. We encourage you to read the full article. It is important and a guiding document for this project.
Randa Abdel-Fattah is a prominent Palestinian Egyptian Muslim author, academic, human rights advocate, former lawyer and mother of four children. The award-winning author of eleven novels, published and translated in over 20 countries, Randa writes across a wide range of genres and actively seeks to translate her academic work into creative interventions which reshape dominant narratives around race, human rights, multiculturalism and identity in popular culture. Her most recent non-fiction book, Coming of Age in the War on Terror, was shortlisted for the 2022 Stella Awards, the 2022 Victorian Premier's Literary Awards and the 2022 NSW Premier's Literary Awards.
The above is taken from Pan Macmillan Australia
Olive branches with a few olives reach across a pale peach sky.
