The Limits of Speaking on Catastrophe: Confessions of a #Palestinian Teacher by Diya Abdo ...Today I want you to leave with more answers than questions. *Palestinian lives are not disposable. *Defending the self should not entail collective punishment of the other. *No, Palestinian lives are not disposable. *The Palestinian people are not their political organizations. *And no, Palestinian lives are not disposable. *Palestinian mothers and fathers want their children to live, and laugh and play and go to school. They don’t want them to strap a bomb to their chests and shatter their parents’ hearts instead. *Again, Palestinian lives are not disposable. *American tax dollars should go to feeding our hungry, not feeding missiles that brutally stop the hunger of besieged human beings 6,000 miles away. Today I have to choose between being a Palestinian and a teacher. So I choose to be a Palestinian, but I hope you can see that by taking a clear stand, I can be both. Because I hope that intellect is not diametrically opposed to activism. That it need not distract us from action, nor be a soothing substitute for action... thefeministwire/2014/09/limits-speaking-catastrophe-confessions-palestinian-teacher/
Posted on: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:15:34 +0000
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