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Palestine Diary: Just simple facts about the genocide in Palestine and zionists' crimes.

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“There is no excuse for those who realize the idea and abandon it.”
"If we are failed defenders of the cause, it’s better to change the defenders, not the cause."
—Ghassan Kanafani

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#FreePalestine #PalestineSolidarity #Decolonization #WesternLiberalism
A Plain Guide for the Solidarity Activist
The Canadian State, the NGOs, and the Complicity They Share
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September 15, 2026 at 5:55 AM
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“Every relationship of ‘hegemony’ is necessarily an educational relationship.”
“I’m a pessimist because of intelligence, but an optimist because of will.”
—Gramsci

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#FreePalestine #PalestineSolidarity #Decolonization #WesternLiberalism
What They Read
The Tactics of Eliminating the Palestinians from Palestine
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September 15, 2026 at 5:52 AM
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“This world crushes justice with vileness every day.”

“He who observes people dies of grief; he who observes himself explodes in fury.”

—Ghassan Kanafani

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#FreePalestine #PalestineSolidarity #Decolonization #WesternLiberalism
One Step Toward Decolonized Solidarity
A Critical Assessment of a Proposed Critical Reading and Discussion
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September 15, 2026 at 5:47 AM
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"I am from there. I am from here. I am not there and I am not here. I have two names, which meet and part, and I have two languages. I forget which of them I dream in."
—Mahmoud Darwish

Lawrence of Palestine in Action: To Organize Or To Atomize.
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Lawrence of Palestine in Action
To Organize Or To Atomize
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September 15, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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Lawrence of Palestine: The Liberal Revolutionary On Unceded Land.

Part One of a two-part essay. The evidence, the rebuttal, the verdict.
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Lawrence of Palestine
The Liberal Revolutionary On Unceded Land
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September 15, 2026 at 5:16 AM
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The roots are deep, the branch is new.

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One Tree, Two Blown Winds
Party, Society, and the Cycle of Contradictions
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September 15, 2026 at 5:12 AM
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-I saw that you're a member of the delegation chosen to negotiate on Palestine, and surely you know English well. Please, how do you say "you" in English?
-Thank you, and how to say the word "fool"?
- Fool
- You Fool!!
September 15, 2026 at 5:10 AM
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The aim of these horrific massacres was not merely to kill thousands of Palestinians, but to psychologically isolate us, to push us to the brink of despair where we might relinquish our right to Palestine.
—Naji al-Ali
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The Current and the Archipelago
On the Fragmentation of the National Collective Will
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September 15, 2026 at 5:01 AM
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The last article by martyr Ghassan Kanafani.

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The Epic of the She-Goat and the Wolf!
By Ghassan Kanafani
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September 14, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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“Every great historical event finds, in the small obstructing incidents, something to occupy a portion of its time.”

—Ghassan Kanafani.

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Combat Liberalism, Updated
A List of Liberal Tendencies in the Settler-Colonial Context
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September 14, 2026 at 8:54 AM
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“The way, and the only way, to stop this evil is for all the red men to unite in claiming a common and equal right in the land, as it was at first, and should be yet; for it was never divided, but belongs to all for the use of each.” —Chief Tecumseh.

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The Closed File of an Open Wound
On Selective Solidarity and the Unbroken Chain of Apartheids
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September 14, 2026 at 8:50 AM
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And today, when you celebrate your hundred years, oh Canada, I am sad for all the Indian people throughout the land.”
—Chief Dan George

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The Displaced Grief of the Comfortable
On Memorial Ceremonies, Stolen Symbols, and the Unceded Grammar of Colonialism
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September 14, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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“Although our Peoples come from different nations and geographies, the struggles against settler colonialism are the same. Not because we or our struggles are the same but because settler colonialists share playbooks.”

NDN Collective.

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Trust Me, It Is "Not Political"
The Theatre of Complicity and Hypocrisy: How Victoria Police Learned to Serve the Colonial Narrative
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September 14, 2026 at 8:40 AM
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“For the colonized subject, objectivity is always directed against him.”

“In capitalist countries a multitude of sermonizers, counselors, and ‘confusion-mongers’ intervene between the exploited and the authorities.”

— Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth.

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The Sovereignty of the Native
On Iran, Oppression, and the Colonial Mind
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March 14, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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To speak of humanity while fueling the machine that consumes it's not hypocrisy—it's a form of ideological collaboration. The machine is not out there; if you consume its products, fund its economy, or apologize for its logic, the machine is in you.
BOYCOTT USA.
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Boycott Rogue U.S.: Severing the Genocide Economy
The Decisive Weapon of the Oppressed Is in Your Hand
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January 5, 2026 at 1:17 AM
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“It is self-evident that the intellectual must be revolutionary or cease to be.”
“Revolution is not a word or an abstraction. It is the mud of the earth, unknown to those who fear soiling their hands.” -Mahdi Amel.

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The Chomsky Apparatus
Our Library and the Intellectual Architecture of Manufacturing Consent
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January 5, 2026 at 1:13 AM
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The foreign land robbers tell you a story of a god promised, barren land made to bloom, of a people returning to the light of sovereignty. A clean, moral story, scrubbed for export. But we, the native people of this land, who have lived beneath its exhaust ...
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A Dialectic of Smelter State
The Engine, the Wall, and the Palestinian Ore.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:08 AM
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For any group seeking to change an established order—including a solidarity movement within a settler-colonial state—this law presents a stark mirror: without the “material unity of organisation,” it possesses no weapon.

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From Moment to Movement
The Dam and the River: On Organization, Liberation, and the Palestinian Solidarity Movement.
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January 5, 2026 at 1:06 AM
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This work is dedicated to those seeking to build meaningful solidarity—a practice rooted in a deep understanding of oppressed peoples’ narratives. It is offered in the spirit of communities like the Tadamon Community on lək̓ʷəŋən and W̱SÁNEĆ unceded lands.

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Resistance Unfinished Blueprint
Ghassan Kanafani, Naji al-Ali, and the Architecture of Liberation
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January 5, 2026 at 1:00 AM
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This essay concludes a series built upon a single argument in two parts. The first diagnosed the disease—the double uprooting. The second, building directly upon it, prescribed the cure—the return for all. These are not separate ideas. They are two sides of ...

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On the Road to Palestine
From Colonial Crime to Decolonial Justice
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November 11, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Abstract: This paper presents a systematic critique of Jeffrey Sachs’ liberal-internationalist analysis of U.S. foreign policy, an essay notably platformed by Al Jazeera—a media outlet of Qatar, a semi-state client and key military ally of the American empire.

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Can Uncle Sam Redeem Himself?
How Jeffrey Sachs' Liberal Critique Performs the "Conceptual Erasure" of Imperialism
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November 11, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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The weak do not fight.
The strong fight for an hour, perhaps.
The stronger fight for many years.
But the strongest fight all their lives.
Such men are indispensable.

- Bertolt Brecht.

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The Structurally Tragic Crime
From Tragedy to Intervention in Palestine
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November 7, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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“Deep things are not necessarily complex, and simple things are not necessarily naive,”1 wrote the novelist and iconic revolutionary Ghassan Kanafani. “The real artistic bias is: How can a human being say something profound simply?”

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In the Time of the Open Secret
Palestine and the Fundamental Choice of Our Era
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November 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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“The Palestinians had been sacrificing in all forms of struggle continuously till this moment and all the time it was that the camp of the enemies of the Palestinian people was very big that the Palestinians alone cannot conquer.”

—Ghassan Kanafani.

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The Control Room and the Front Line
Against the False Divide Between Liberation and Solidarity
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November 4, 2025 at 6:30 AM
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“The character of Handala was like a spiritual icon of resistance, a reminder of the fall whenever I felt a sense of laziness or complacency. He is like a compass to me, and this compass always points to Palestine.”

—Naji al-Ali.

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The National Compass
On the Crisis of Palestinian Political Identity
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November 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM