Emmanuelle Skaly on Nostr: The saddest thing to me in western society is the infantalization of middle eastern ...
The saddest thing to me in western society is the infantalization of middle eastern people. Many in the Mastodon community make a great example of it: predominantly white people, speaking to other predominantly white people, reading articles reading by either predominantly white people or not white people who have very little to do with their non white cultural background (for example, a 3rd generation Palestinian who grew up in NYC).
It's very rare to non existent, for me to see people who listen to the actual sources in our war, being, Palestinians currently living in Gaza and Israelis living in Israel who are directly affected by the war.
When I speak up, I get called brain washed.
When they speak up, they get called brain washed, too.
Now, they used to be. Hamas have very little power today, and the Gazans are waking up. It is in fact, possible to be brain washed when you get faced with violence for speaking up against your ruler.
Which is why it's not possible for Israelis. We can not be brain washed because we do not live in a society where our government kills whoever speaks against them or even throws into jail, outside of very very rare cases which may be justified when it's about literally calling to kill a person in the government and other similar extremes.
In fact, I have never seen a people more vocal against their government, I went to tons of protests myself, and we very much speak negatively against our government and there are posters calling Bibi a liar, saying he abandoned us - all over the country, all over Tel Aviv, and he can not take them off, he can do nothing about it.
And it really doesn't matter if you listen to late generation Palestinians nor does it matter if you listen to American Jews or late generation Israelis, when it comes to hearing the people living today affected directly by the war, you need to hear me. My parents. My family. And the people of Gaza too, not Hamas, but the civilians from whom Hamas steals food, rapes, beheads and shoots for being gay or trying to eat.
Otherwise, if you just keep throwing white slogans of genocide and black and white right and wrong without ever truly listening deeply, predominantly - to the people of Israel and of Gaza, then....
You're just white people yelling at white people lol, and non white but still white-washed, psychologically colonized non white people yelling at others like yourself.
No matter what your view point or opinion is it's irrelevant, it's biased and not based on the true lived experiences of the people living today.
So go ahead, call me brainwashed, call me a genocidal cunt for all I care. Call me a zionist as if it's a word that carries even negativity in my mind.
I won't respond, I won't answer anyone here who uses any code words to impress your white or white washed friends who just like you, never even spoke with a person like me or infantilised us, who's relative is held hostage (Omer Neutra is my family), who's family friends are dead, who's family members are fighting for me to be able to write to you, who was on the phone with my parents on the 7th of October not knowing if I'll be orphaned the next day while girls all around my mom were raped and slaughtered.
Who don't know how many Gazans beg for an Israeli rule, who are unaware of Hamas stealing food and letting it go bad in their tunnels while their children starve, who rape and slaughter their own women for "disrespect", who use a Hitler book to educate their children and let them play with Hitler dolls, admiring him.
You are shameful no matter what your opinion is, pro Israel anti zionist it doesn't even matter. If you don't listen to the source, you can know a lot but understand little to nothing at all.
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It's very rare to non existent, for me to see people who listen to the actual sources in our war, being, Palestinians currently living in Gaza and Israelis living in Israel who are directly affected by the war.
When I speak up, I get called brain washed.
When they speak up, they get called brain washed, too.
Now, they used to be. Hamas have very little power today, and the Gazans are waking up. It is in fact, possible to be brain washed when you get faced with violence for speaking up against your ruler.
Which is why it's not possible for Israelis. We can not be brain washed because we do not live in a society where our government kills whoever speaks against them or even throws into jail, outside of very very rare cases which may be justified when it's about literally calling to kill a person in the government and other similar extremes.
In fact, I have never seen a people more vocal against their government, I went to tons of protests myself, and we very much speak negatively against our government and there are posters calling Bibi a liar, saying he abandoned us - all over the country, all over Tel Aviv, and he can not take them off, he can do nothing about it.
And it really doesn't matter if you listen to late generation Palestinians nor does it matter if you listen to American Jews or late generation Israelis, when it comes to hearing the people living today affected directly by the war, you need to hear me. My parents. My family. And the people of Gaza too, not Hamas, but the civilians from whom Hamas steals food, rapes, beheads and shoots for being gay or trying to eat.
Otherwise, if you just keep throwing white slogans of genocide and black and white right and wrong without ever truly listening deeply, predominantly - to the people of Israel and of Gaza, then....
You're just white people yelling at white people lol, and non white but still white-washed, psychologically colonized non white people yelling at others like yourself.
No matter what your view point or opinion is it's irrelevant, it's biased and not based on the true lived experiences of the people living today.
So go ahead, call me brainwashed, call me a genocidal cunt for all I care. Call me a zionist as if it's a word that carries even negativity in my mind.
I won't respond, I won't answer anyone here who uses any code words to impress your white or white washed friends who just like you, never even spoke with a person like me or infantilised us, who's relative is held hostage (Omer Neutra is my family), who's family friends are dead, who's family members are fighting for me to be able to write to you, who was on the phone with my parents on the 7th of October not knowing if I'll be orphaned the next day while girls all around my mom were raped and slaughtered.
Who don't know how many Gazans beg for an Israeli rule, who are unaware of Hamas stealing food and letting it go bad in their tunnels while their children starve, who rape and slaughter their own women for "disrespect", who use a Hitler book to educate their children and let them play with Hitler dolls, admiring him.
You are shameful no matter what your opinion is, pro Israel anti zionist it doesn't even matter. If you don't listen to the source, you can know a lot but understand little to nothing at all.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DCNHFwjNfcw/?igsh=MXFwcndzam41cGZjaQ==