not joining your facebook group

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I’m still getting invites to jion the tristan anderson solidarity gorup on facebook. no not interested, assume he was is a decent fellow and know that focussing on dead white folks is counterproductive and harmful. palestine is supposed to be more important now because another white boy is dying there, people will care more about israeli crimes? nope and nope. links to palestinian news sites in english  since the 13th when he was injured, looky looky. more palestinians injured each day in assaults by israeli soldiers and settlers. i didn’t get a facebook invite on behalf of any of them.

but wait white boy is the hook that will catch the all important white people bait right. no again. if you cared before you will care now. if you thought palestinians were terrorists before you will think he is a traitor or a dupe, if you thought it was all too complicated you’ll think he was foolish for getting involved. if you are a white solidarity activist you will be affirmed, you too can be a martyr.

i remember being in palestine when rachel was murdered. there was a spike in new activists, they were scary. you are not the person i want to hae my back if you are excited by the idea of martyrdom.

in the meantime shame shame ism. twitter page at 5pm cairo time had 20 tweets up 7 were about tristan or the anniversary of rachel corries death. because what needs to be done to break the occupation is call attention to the white, american solidarity activists and how important they are and how shamefull it is that they were injured/ killed.

check the other stories. the attacks aagainst unarmed civilians go on. they don’t get picked up and they should, but elevating the white activist won’t cure that(the dying white saviour is the colonizer’s religion) they still haen’t been picked up and tristan’s story is fresh. most of the violence is the israeli theft of palestinian land and livelihood and freedom of movement and culture. oh and wait a minute there is a ciultural festival in bethlehem and new rounds of dialogue betweent the political factions and like here the women and children are mostly missing from the story because they bleed in private most of the time so they don’t lead. do we need to find ways to get the stories told and even more so to get people to give a shit. YES but lets find something better than solidarity with the solidarity actiists in solidarity with pallestine. that is too many steps removed and the center is off.

many thanks, hahbib for our conversation last night and many others before that triggered this post. these are definitelly understandings that i’ve worked out with you except where i just imbibed you brilliance straight