Assalamualaikum everyone.
Some snaps from the himpunan i joined.
It was Saturday, had usrah at 8.30am - grab coffee - arrived home around 11.30am
Confirmed with K Ina what time we are going to the LRT - prayed Zuhr first because the time is earlier these days - around 1pm - went to LRT Gombak
And here we are..
We stopped at KLCC station and walked to US Embassy.
Can't recall the last time participating in himpunan / demonstrasi. A long time ago for sure..
showing solidarity with the rest of the world #FreePalestine
people shared this link on Palestinian literatures on the internet and i found it so good
link here and am currently reading two of them
I used to read on holocaust and genocide and nakbah - history and all but to be honest, i do not really understand.. but this current genocide happening in 2023 open up my eyes wide; understood better - my bad
Nakbah = catastrophe, took place in 1948, this year marked the 75th year of Palestinian people being displaced and loss of their land and never been allowed back
BDS = Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions
Anti-semitic = being unfriendly or prejudiced against Jewish people
The Balfour Declaration = a public pledge by Britain in 1917 declaring its aim to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
Palestine now = West Bank & Gaza
Curfew at 8pm in Gaza and shoot on sight by Israel stupid military
The land theft that began way before 1948 was encouraged by Britain. Its result was Nakba. -
Nakba - the ethnic cleansing of half the Palestinian population within one year (1947-1948)
Ethnic cleansing defined by UN Security Council - a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by violent or terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.
To colonize Palestinian land, Israel has to maintain myriad methods of segregation and implement ethnic cleansing and genocide of the Palestinian population.
The first Palestinian intifada - from 1987 to 1993.
The second Palestinian intifada in year 2000 - a mass uprising that began in the West Bank and Gaza, spread to Palestinian citizens of Israel and led to mass demonstrations across the Arab world.
Israel is able to carry out this systemic discrimination and military occupations due to unequivocal support it receives from the Western powers.
Israel controls what goods come in and out of Gaza, including food and medicine, and controls Gaza's access to fuel, water and electricity, Gaza's economy and Gaza's population's registry.
The mainstream media fails to convey the Palestinian struggle as the struggle for freedom, dignity and human rights that it is.
Rather, Palestinian are inaccurately depicted as violent people who wants to destroy Israel.
Or, at best, this is a 'conflict' in which two equal sides are fighting over a piece of land.
Most would be surprised to know many of the tactics used by icons of non-violent resistance throughout history, such as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. have been used by Palestinians to resist the occupation and colonization of their land.
Wassalam.
Some paragraphs are quoted from the book - Apartheid in Palestine (Ageel, Ghada; 2016)
