
Barzakh
A poignant poem, stressing on the meaninglessness of the Palestinian lives, in life or afterlife, using the untimely deaths of two minors Zeinab & Khadija.
A poignant poem, stressing on the meaninglessness of the Palestinian lives, in life or afterlife, using the untimely deaths of two minors Zeinab & Khadija.
It's a powerful poem that attests to the suffering of the Gaza by comparing Gaza genocide to Auschwitz holocaust through the eyes of Theodor W. Adorno. It captures unspeakable pains of the Palestinians through compelling images.
Shlaim’s core argument is that Gaza’s suffering—especially after the 7 October 2023 Hamas attack and Israel’s brutal response (Operation Swords of Iron)— is no accident. He sees Zionism as a settler-colonial project, echoing scholar Patrick Wolfe’s idea that “invasion is a structure, not an event.” Gaza’s blockade since 2007, the repeated bombings Israel calls “mowing the lawn,” and the staggering toll— over 40,000 deaths by mid-2024, mostly women and children— aren’t just security measures but steps toward elimination.
By Robert Inlakesh A child named Karim, who was detained by the Israeli occupation forces, testified that…
Storytelling has long been a tactic in the toolbox of colonized people. For survivors of genocide, it validates their experience against those who deny that the horror ever happened.
The former UN official, Craig Mokhiber, has said that it is the job of the UN leadership to call a spade a spade, since the situation in the Gaza Strip is “not complex, it’s genocide.”
It is a genocide. It is an ethnic cleansing. It is a terrorist attack. Isn't killing innocent children, caregivers, women is not terrorism?