Paying a price for Palestine by Momodou Taal
I left the United States with my head held high. My exit was a refusal to become carrion for a government satiated by the blood of Gazans. In hiding, while fasting, I remembered that no sacrifice is too great for Palestine. Without a shred of regret, nor a waver in my convictions, I held then, as I do now:
I didn’t go hard enough for Palestine.
Cornell University decided that its investment in genocide weighed heavier than its commitment to its students.
During my time at Cornell, I was suspended twice, banned from campus, prevented and then prohibited from teaching, and declared persona non grata. During my time at Cornell, I was told that I could not pray my five daily prayers on campus, and that any medical appointments had to receive prior approval.
During my time at Cornell, I was effectively placed under house arrest. I was given a map dictating where I could and could not go. There was a bitter irony in protesting apartheid only to find myself subjected to its spatial logic.
Eventually, I was hunted by ICE agents until I decided to leave.
At the time of my departure, life was uncertain and my future undecided. But I knew one thing: wherever life took me, I had stood on the right side of history.
Since then, I have been detained at Heathrow Airport, my devices seized and my DNA taken.
My crime? Palestine.
Although I remain enrolled at Cornell, on June 10th I received an email: “Return to campus to teach or lose funding.” I cannot help but read this as a cynical attempt to deprive me further, or worse, to place me back within ICE’s reach. But I remain determined to finish. I refuse to let Cornell win.
Palestine remains the litmus test. My moral compass.
Kwame Ture once dreamed of something remarkably simple: “having coffee with my wife in South Africa; and mint tea in Palestine.”
There is something about the simplicity of that dream that has always stayed with me. To sit, to drink tea, to live freely in places where freedom had been denied. Ture's dreams remains unfulfilled. And they remain ours.
I left the United States with my head held high. My exit was a refusal to become carrion for a government satiated by the blood of Gazans. In hiding, while fasting, I remembered that no sacrifice is too great for Palestine. Without a shred of regret, nor a waver in my convictions, I held then, as I do now:
I didn’t go hard enough for Palestine.
Cornell University decided that its investment in genocide weighed heavier than its commitment to its students.
During my time at Cornell, I was suspended twice, banned from campus, prevented and then prohibited from teaching, and declared persona non grata. During my time at Cornell, I was told that I could not pray my five daily prayers on campus, and that any medical appointments had to receive prior approval.
During my time at Cornell, I was effectively placed under house arrest. I was given a map dictating where I could and could not go. There was a bitter irony in protesting apartheid only to find myself subjected to its spatial logic.
Eventually, I was hunted by ICE agents until I decided to leave.
At the time of my departure, life was uncertain and my future undecided. But I knew one thing: wherever life took me, I had stood on the right side of history.
Since then, I have been detained at Heathrow Airport, my devices seized and my DNA taken.
My crime? Palestine.
Although I remain enrolled at Cornell, on June 10th I received an email: “Return to campus to teach or lose funding.” I cannot help but read this as a cynical attempt to deprive me further, or worse, to place me back within ICE’s reach. But I remain determined to finish. I refuse to let Cornell win.
Palestine remains the litmus test. My moral compass.
Kwame Ture once dreamed of something remarkably simple: “having coffee with my wife in South Africa; and mint tea in Palestine.”
There is something about the simplicity of that dream that has always stayed with me. To sit, to drink tea, to live freely in places where freedom had been denied. Ture's dreams remains unfulfilled. And they remain ours.
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“Wars of the American Pirate”
“The one who bombed Abu al-Duhur Airport in Syria today is the American cowboy, through the Zionist occupier, its arm in the region!
It is the same one that has been besieging the Gulf states and the Strait of Hormuz for months!
It is the one that besieged Gaza, bombed it, and annihilated its people for 3 years!
This is the truth that the Ummah, its states, and its peoples must confront with complete honesty, courage, and responsibility!
Washington’s use of Israel as a glove for its hand, stained with the blood of our peoples, and as a hired gun to kill us and besiege us, must come to an end. We must confront the real enemy face to face and put it on the table after it had been behind it and beneath it!
Appealing to Washington as a mediator or ally to intervene to stop Israel’s aggression, which it launches on Washington’s orders, is not political diplomacy, but naivety, helplessness, and weakness!
The bombing of Abu al-Duhur Airport today is a message from Washington to Syria and Turkey. It comes in the context of besieging all the states of the region, from the Arabian Gulf in the east to the Mediterranean Sea in the west, and subjugating them to the American pirate, which sees the Middle East, its states, and its peoples as nothing more than a market for its factories and companies, routes for its trade, and bases for its armies to dominate and control the world!”
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One of the wounded in today’s Israeli bombing of a cafe in Gaza City.
⚡️The child Jihad Muhammad Al-Masri, who was killed alongside his father in the Israeli bombing that targeted the Port area of Gaza City.
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Anyone who imagines that America, as it invades the Muslim world today, has no cultural, intellectual, and political project does not understand the nature of the battle or the arenas of conflict.
Today, America forces states to change their curricula. And which curricula?! The curricula of the client states.
The curricula of states that have been under Western dominance for 100 years.
States whose borders were drawn by the Crusader campaign and whose regimes were established by it.
This reality was shaped by a major campaign.
Today, these states will not even accept the miserable curricula that they themselves prepared and through which they managed to shape the culture of societies across the Islamic world for 100 years.
Who would have believed that today, in the Arabian Peninsula, we would hear this Arab Zionist discourse? And whoever imagines that the political alignments taking place are merely political theater does not understand the true nature of the conflict.
These alignments that you see today are ideological in the first degree.
Whoever today stands with Israel and allies with it does not do so on the basis of interests, because there is absolutely no interest for him in standing with Israel. His interests require him to stand with the Ummah.
He believes that Islam is backwardness, that Islam is terrorism, and that Islam must be excluded.
The phenomenon of hypocrisy: someone who outwardly presents himself as Muslim while fighting Islam from within.
The motive is religious and ideological hostility. It is not political calculations, as the deluded imagine.
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Photo from a genocide
Palestinian mother Umm Surour Abu Salah embraces her children in their final moments after Israeli forces killed them all as they returned to a shelter beside the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.
They had just buried her grandson, who had been killed by an Israeli sniper.
- Euro-Med human rights monitor
Palestinian mother Umm Surour Abu Salah embraces her children in their final moments after Israeli forces killed them all as they returned to a shelter beside the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza.
They had just buried her grandson, who had been killed by an Israeli sniper.
- Euro-Med human rights monitor
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From this year’s Istanbul Arabic Book Fair:
At a conference held by the Palestine Scholars Association, they launched the publishing of the following books:
1- The Holy Land in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, by Abu Obaida, Huthaifa Al-Kahlout.
2- Principles of Military Warfare in the Prophetic Sunnah, by Osama Al-Hayya, a commander in Al-Qassam Brigades and the son of the head of Hamas.
3- Under the Banner of the Flood, by Al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Zaki Hamad, who wrote the book while fighting.
At a conference held by the Palestine Scholars Association, they launched the publishing of the following books:
1- The Holy Land in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, by Abu Obaida, Huthaifa Al-Kahlout.
2- Principles of Military Warfare in the Prophetic Sunnah, by Osama Al-Hayya, a commander in Al-Qassam Brigades and the son of the head of Hamas.
3- Under the Banner of the Flood, by Al-Qassam Brigades commander Mohammed Zaki Hamad, who wrote the book while fighting.
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⚡️Syrian sources:
More than 600 young men who met the required requirements and completed the necessary procedures have been accepted in preparation for joining the Syrian army.
More than 600 young men who met the required requirements and completed the necessary procedures have been accepted in preparation for joining the Syrian army.
⚡️Mustafa Barghouti, Secretary-General of the Palestinian National Initiative:
What the West Bank is witnessing, including settlement expansion, attacks on villages, and the seizure of land and homes, is not a series of separate security incidents, but an integrated process of annexation, Judaization, and displacement of the population.
What is happening in the West Bank resembles the methods used by Zionist gangs before and during the 1948 Nakba, through violence, intimidation, and gradual seizure of land to push Palestinians to leave their areas.
The settlers constitute the “spearhead” of the annexation project, and their attacks are aimed at pushing Palestinians to leave and replacing them with settlements.
Katz’s transfer of responsibility for law enforcement concerning Israelis in the West Bank from the army to the police means treating settlers as part of Israel’s internal system, weakening the possibility of holding them accountable.
The move entrenches two different systems in the West Bank: one that protects settlers, and another that subjects Palestinians to the harshness of military occupation, bringing the West Bank closer to de facto annexation.
What the West Bank is witnessing, including settlement expansion, attacks on villages, and the seizure of land and homes, is not a series of separate security incidents, but an integrated process of annexation, Judaization, and displacement of the population.
What is happening in the West Bank resembles the methods used by Zionist gangs before and during the 1948 Nakba, through violence, intimidation, and gradual seizure of land to push Palestinians to leave their areas.
The settlers constitute the “spearhead” of the annexation project, and their attacks are aimed at pushing Palestinians to leave and replacing them with settlements.
Katz’s transfer of responsibility for law enforcement concerning Israelis in the West Bank from the army to the police means treating settlers as part of Israel’s internal system, weakening the possibility of holding them accountable.
The move entrenches two different systems in the West Bank: one that protects settlers, and another that subjects Palestinians to the harshness of military occupation, bringing the West Bank closer to de facto annexation.
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Videos of moments after the Israeli bombing of a cafe on the Gaza City beach.
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⚡️Gaza sources:
A Palestinian child bids farewell to his sibling, who was killer along with 6 others in a bloody massacre committed by the Israeli army when it bombed a cafe at the fishermen’s port, west of Gaza City, yesterday.
A Palestinian child bids farewell to his sibling, who was killer along with 6 others in a bloody massacre committed by the Israeli army when it bombed a cafe at the fishermen’s port, west of Gaza City, yesterday.
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⚡️Gaza sources:
A new Israeli massacre: 10 martyrs and 15 wounded following Israeli bombings of Gaza City and Nuseirat Camp.
A new Israeli massacre: 10 martyrs and 15 wounded following Israeli bombings of Gaza City and Nuseirat Camp.
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⚡️Gaza sources:
The director of the Women’s Police in Gaza Governorate, Fatena Al-Sahhar, was killed in the bloody Israeli massacre that targeted officers and members of the Civil Police in Gaza City today.
The director of the Women’s Police in Gaza Governorate, Fatena Al-Sahhar, was killed in the bloody Israeli massacre that targeted officers and members of the Civil Police in Gaza City today.
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⚡️Gaza sources: A new Israeli massacre: 10 martyrs and 15 wounded following Israeli bombings of Gaza City and Nuseirat Camp.
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“He was martyred while serving the people.”
- From the farewell to a victims of the Israeli massacre of officers and members of the Civil Police in Gaza City.
- From the farewell to a victims of the Israeli massacre of officers and members of the Civil Police in Gaza City.
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