Reflections and gratitude
a testimony in honor of our martyrs, our community, our morals, and unbending principles.
Just yesterday, on October 14, 2024, families were burned alive outside Al Aqsa Hospital in Central Gaza. Children, women, and men who had been receiving limited medical aid through IVs were charred beyond recognition. The scene was so grotesque that the testimonies of rescue workers and eyewitnesses cannot fully convey the horror inflicted upon Palestinians. This violence is not solely carried out by a billion-dollar zionist settler-colonial military apparatus; it is also supported by an American government that fuels its policies by erasing indigenous identities.
zionists and their ideology consistently refuse to acknowledge the ongoing atrocities committed by the zionist state against Palestinians. This colonial violence is driven by a deep-seated hatred, which ultimately reflects a profound self-loathing. zionism, by its very nature, consumes those who embrace it, stripping them of their humanity and transforming them into instruments of ethno-nationalism and systems of supremacy. zionists are fully aware of their complicity in supporting genocide, advocating for the murder and ethnic cleansing of men, women, and children by any means necessary. Their willingness to display images of burned and mutilated Palestinians across media outlets is intended to reassert dominance and control. Yet, instead of demonstrating strength, they expose a sinister villainy—one that requires the extermination of over 18,000 children and nearly 300,000 Palestinians to sustain itself.
Rather than embrace the Jewish concept of “Tikkun Olam”—which means to repair the world—zionists have distorted Judaism into a tool of death. It is a tool used to burn families alive and is only satisfied by the genocide of Palestinians and the construction of settlements upon graves and stolen land. zionism operates as a settler-colonial ideology that seeks to dispossess and erase the Palestinian people. zionism not only displaces people physically, but it also seeks to erase their memory, ensuring that even their cultural milestones and narratives are weaponized to silence resistance.
Our commemoration of Palestinian resistance is part of a larger struggle against both zionism and the global systems of imperialism that sustain it. By maintaining cultural traditions and pushing back against narratives that portray Palestinians as aggressors, we remind the world of anti-colonial and anti-fascist movements that challenge systems of inequality, oppression, and occupation.
Despite the sensationalism surrounding our choices, the core of our work is focused on nourishing our community. Whether through food and coffee that preserve Palestinian culinary traditions or through events that commemorate Palestinian history and culture, we sustain our people both physically and spiritually. By continuing this work, even when critics try to discredit it, we create a space for Palestinians and comrades to struggle, gather, reflect, and strengthen their shared identity and resistance.