OMNI
ISRAELI BDS DAY (BOYCOTT,
DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS) AND PALESTINIAN LAND DAY, MARCH 30, 2020.
COMPILED BY DICK
BENNETT FOR A CULTURE OF PEACE, JUSTICE, AND ECOLOGY.
PART OF OMNI’S NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL DAYS PROJECT. https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2020/04/omni-nationalinternational-days-project.html
OMNI’s newsletters are little readers on peace,
justice, and ecology; repeated newsletters on the same topic amount to booklets,
a few even a book. http://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/
What's at stake: The
illegal, brutal occupation of the West Bank and destruction of Gaza should
arouse world abhorrence. It also distracts world nations from their
urgently needed, full attention to global warming and related wars.
Note your
calendar: International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People,
Nov. 29.
CONTENTS ISRAEL/PALESTINE BDS DAY (Boycott,
Divest, Sanction) MARCH 30, 2020
A small selection from the years 2014 to 2020
in reverse chronological order.
2020
Microsoft Divests
Palestinian Dispossession
2019
Google Search, Anti-Boycott Legislation
A BDS Blockade Victory
BDS, Tlaib, and Omar
2018-19
Palestinian Land Day
2017
Mennonite Church USA
2016
Churches Divest: United Methodist,
UUA, Some Fifty
Moral Affirmation of BDS by Ramzy Baroud
VFP v. Gov. Cuomo’s Blacklist of BDS
Jewish Voice for Peace v. AIPAC
Human Rights Watch v. Settlements
Israel’s Double Standards
UUA Divests
2015
Chris Hedges for BDS
UCC United Church of Christ Divests, and other
churches
Historians Against War Joins BDS Movement
3 Poems by Remi Kanazi
2020
Victory! Microsoft divests from the Israeli occupation: AFSC
(4-4-20). After a campaign led by a
coalition that included AFSC, Microsoft announced it would divest
from
AnyVision, the corporation whose technologies power Israel’s military
surveillance of Palestinians in the West Bank.
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2019
STRUGGLE AGAINST ANTI-BOYCOTT LEGISLATION, Google Search BDS,
6-15-19
2 days ago - Top law officers for nine states signed onto a legal brief filed Tuesday asking a court to
uphold Arkansas Act 710, a 2017 state law adding a ...
4 days ago - Nine states sign brief supporting Arkansas law that requires Israel ... The Arkansas anti-boycott law has been challenged
in a lawsuit by the ...
Jun 2, 2019 - The law requires companies to agree to the anti-boycott pledge for ... The
attorney general's filing states that a boycott of Israel "is not ... Nine states sign brief supporting Arkansas lawthat requires Israel anti-boycott pledge.
Mar 27, 2019 - Anti-boycott laws have been enacted in the following states: ... non-profit
organizations, and/or companies that support boycotts for ... 9. Anti-boycott laws undermine our
fundamental rights and social justice causes in general.
Apr 23, 2019 - Many United States states are using anti-boycott laws and executive ... in companies that support boycotts of Israel,
New York City, June 9, ...
Jan 9, 2019 - By Zack Beauchamp@zackbeauchampzack@vox.com Jan 9, 2019, 3:10pm EST
... Supportfor Israel, so long a
bipartisan issue, is becoming polarized, ... “This Israel anti-boycott legislation would give states a free pass
to ...
The Israel Anti-Boycott Act is a bill that is designed to permit U.S. states to freely
enact laws that would require
contractors to sign a pledge saying that they would not boycott any goods from
Israel, or their contracts would be terminated. The bill would also amend the
Export Administration Act of 1979.
Anti-Boycott laws
unconstitutional
May 9, 2019 | 4:00 PM ... It would encourage states to create the
very laws that three federal courts
have blocked on free speech grounds. ... The Israel Anti-Boycott Act, which Congress attempted
to enact in several different ways last year, would amend a .... We're fighting
a wave of abortion bans and need your help to win.
May 8, 2019 - Since 2014 twenty-seven states have adopted laws that aim to
discourage boycotts of Israel. ... Anti-BDS resolutions are also being considered at the federal
level. ... Citing an earlier case as support, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in ....
schools serving Arabic-speaking students for nine years was unable ...
Arab Resource &
Organizing Center (AROC)
Saturday:
Celebrate BDS in the Bay Area!
10-21-19
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Political upheaval over Tlaib and Omar shows the power of BDS. Mronline.org (8-21-19).
We are in the middle of a political upheaval on
Israel/Palestine in the United States, and Americans who are concerned with
Palestinian human rights live for these moments. They are the moments of
potential change: When more tarnish is added to Israel’s image, and Americans
get a clearer picture of what the Jewish state actually […]
2018-19: TWO ITEMS PERTAINING TO PALESTINIAN
LAND DAY
Palestinians
- UN for protection & Great March Photos
3-31-19, 11:09
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2017
Washington Report on Middle East Affairs WRMEA (Nov. Dec. 2017) has article on resistance, “ADC Gala
Dinner Emphasizes Courage and Solidarity” by Dale Sprusansky.
BREAKING -- Mennonite Church
(USA) Says No Investing in Occupation!
3:59 PM (4 hours ago)
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2016
Huge News! Church Divestment
Starts Big in 2016!
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Why BDS Cannot Lose: A Moral Threshold to Combat Racism
in Israel
A foray of condemnations of the
boycott of Israel seems to have fallen on deaf ears. Calls from Western
governments, originating from the UK, the US, Canada and others, to criminalize
the boycott of Israel have hardly slowed down the momentum of the pro-Palestinian
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). On the contrary, it has
accelerated.
It is as if history is repeating
itself. Western governments took on the pro-South African Anti-Apartheid
Movement, fighting it at every corner and branding its leaders. Nelson Mandela
and many of his comrades were called terrorists. MORE
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/03/17/why-bds-cannot-lose-a-moral-threshold-to-combat-racism-in-israel/
BDS has, thus far, been the most successful
strategy and tactic to support Palestinian Resistance and steadfastness while,
at the same time, holding Israel accountable for its progressively worsening
policies of apartheid. The main objective behind BDS, an entirely non-violent
movement that is championed by civil society across the globe, is not to punish
ordinary Israelis, but to raise awareness of the suffering of Palestinians and
to create a moral threshold that must be achieved if a just peace is ever to be
realized.
That moral threshold has already
been delineated in the relationship between Palestinians and South Africans
when Mandela himself said, “We know all too well that our freedom is incomplete
without the freedom of the Palestinians.”
He was not trying to be cordial
or diplomatic. He meant every word. And, finally, many around the world are
making the same connection, and are wholeheartedly in agreement.
VFP Urges Gov. Andrew Cuomo to Rescind Executive Order 157,
6-17-16
New York City VFP members
joined a demonstration at the Capitol Building in Albany, NY, on June 15 to
express opposition to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s June 5 executive order that would
create a blacklist of groups,
institutions, businesses that support or endorse boycott, divestment, and sanctions
(BDS) as
a tool in the struggle against Israeli oppression of the Palestinian people;
the order would withdraw state funds from those groups.
Our members delivered a letter from
VFP President Barry Ladendorf and Executive Director Michael
McPhearson urging the governor to rescind the order.
VFP also issued a
statement, Preserving the First Amendment.
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Dear Dick,
The
2016 AIPAC Policy Conference got started yesterday,
and tonight’s main event will be Donald Trump’s address.
Then tomorrow, they’ll be off to visit every member of Congress, pushing
their legislative agenda.
But
amid the furore around Trump’s speech, it’s easy to forget how we got here.
It’s easy to forget that while Trump might be center stage tonight, the
stage was built by AIPAC.
AIPAC
has peddled Islamophobic and racist stereotypes for literally decades. It is
fundamental to how they’ve built power and influence. It’s who they are.
You
probably know that many of Trump’s most appalling policy suggestions for the US
are already law in Israel, celebrated and protected fiercely by AIPAC. Israel
already refuses to open its doors to refugees -- Syrian, Ethiopian, or
Palestinian; allows privileged immigration status for one religious group over
others, is building highly militarized walls on all of its borders, and has
elected and re-elected a demagogue leader who wins votes with blatant appeals
to racism.
Islamophobia
and anti-Arab racism are not a byproduct of AIPAC’s policy agenda anymore than
they are a byproduct of Israeli policy. They’re fundamental.
And
over and over, Jewish communal organizations have co-signed on that racism by
ignoring, or just plain silencing, criticism of AIPAC’s demonization of
Muslims, Arabs, and South Asians in order to secure unconditional U.S. support
and military aid for Israel.
But
there are rays of hope. Even as some pro-Israel Jewish “leaders” try to muzzle
them, intersectional movements are also rising -- for Black lives, for economic
justice, for Palestinians. From the halls of Chicago to the streets of Phoenix,
people are standing up and speaking out. And it is that power that can beat back
the dangerous slide that's happening in this country and Israel.
Don’t
forget that we have numbers on our side. In recent polls, 47% of Democrats say
they think Israel is a racist state, and 49% support imposing economic
sanctions or other punitive measures against Israel’s continued settlement
building. Fewer than one-third of American Jews believe Israel is a
democracy.
It
really shouldn’t come as surprise what AIPAC is going to focus on when they
lobby tomorrow:
Us.
AIPAC
is pushing forward an agenda to make nonviolent advocacy for Palestinians
illegal because they know they’re starting to lose. Their racist dehumanization
of Palestinians is falling outside the mainstream. The simple idea that
Palestinian human rights are human rights is taking root. From churches, to
major universities, to city councils, people are stepping up against the racism
in America and Israel.
The
fact is, AIPAC has to legislate hate against Palestinians because the rest of
us aren’t buying it anymore.
So
we have to keep working. AIPAC’s power derives in large part from its history
of threatening and bullying legislators, through a machine that extends
from local school boards to the White House.
That’s
why we need your help today to keep the pressure on:email your Representative and
tell them to oppose attacks on our right to boycott. Contact them today, before
AIPAC does.
Onward,
Ari
Wohlfeiler, Deputy Director
P.S. Thanks to you, and hundreds of JVP donors like you, we’re
bringing our message to DC, Albany, Sacramento, and Columbus OH tomorrow. If you’re in one of those areas,
watch out for more info about our billboard trucks -- and check our social
media for photos.
Jewish Voice for Peace is a national
membership organization inspired by Jewish tradition to work for the freedom,
equality, and dignity of all the people of Israel and Palestine. Become a JVP Member today.
1611 Telegraph Ave. Suite 1020
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 465 1777
Human Rights Watch Calls for Firms to Drop Business with Israeli Settlements
Democracy Now, JANUARY 20, 2016
Human Rights Watch has called for all businesses to stop
operating in, financing or doing business with Israeli settlements in the
occupied West Bank. The group’s new report, titled "Occupation,
Inc.," also calls on countries like the United States to "[withhold]
funding given to the Israeli government in an amount equivalent to its
expenditures and related infrastructure in the West Bank." The settlements
have been deemed illegal under international law.
U.S. Ambassador: Israel Has 2 Standards of Justice in West Bank. Democracy Now, JANUARY 20, 2016
The Human Rights Watch report comes after the U.S.
ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, said Israel appears to have two standards
for adherence to the rule of law in the West Bank—one for Jews and one for
Palestinians. Shapiro made the remarks Monday at a high-profile security
conference in Tel Aviv.
Daniel Shapiro: "Too many attacks on Palestinians
lack a vigorous investigation or response by Israeli authorities. Too much
vigilantism goes unchecked. And at times there seem to be two standards of
adherence to the rule of law—one for Israelis and another for
Palestinians."
Apr 8, 2016 - Unitarian
Universalists divest from companies profiting from Israel's
occupation ... human rights violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.
2015
Why I Support the BDS Movement Against Israel
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_i_support_the_bds_movement_against_israel_20150726/
Posted on Jul 26, 2015
By Chris Hedges
Smoke and fire from an Israeli
strike rise over Gaza City in July 2014. (Hatem
Moussa / AP )
The
Palestinians are poor. They are powerless. They have no voice or influence in
the halls of power. They are demonized. They do not have well-heeled lobbyists
doling out campaign contributions and pushing through pro-Palestinian
legislation. No presidential candidate is appealing to donors—as Hillary
Clinton did when she sent a letter to media mogul Haim Saban denouncing
critics of Israel—by promising to advance the interests of the Palestinian
people. Palestinians, like poor people of color in the United States, are
expendable.Justice for Palestine will never come from the traditional governmental institutions or political parties that administer power. These institutions have surrendered to moneyed interests. Justice will come only from us. And the sole mechanism left to ensure justice for Palestine is the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movementagainst Israel. Sanctions brought down the apartheid regime of South Africa. And they are what will bring down the apartheid regime of Israel. BDS is nonviolent. It appeals to conscience. And it works.
All Israeli products including Jaffa citrus fruits, Ahava cosmetics, SodaStream drink machines, Eden Springs bottled water and Israeli wine must be boycotted. We must refuse to do business with Israeli service companies. And we must boycott corporations that do business with Israel, including Caterpillar, HP and Hyundai. We must put pressure on institutions, from churches to universities, to divest from Israeli companies and corporations that have contracts with Israel. The struggle against apartheid in South Africa was long and hard. This struggle will be too.
Gaza, a year after Israel carried out a devastating bombing campaign that lasted almost two months, is in ruins. Most of the water is unsafe to drink. There are power outages for up to 12 hours a day. Forty percent of the 1.8 million inhabitants are unemployed, including 67 percent of the youths—the highest youth unemployment rate in the world. Of the 17,000 homes destroyed by Israel in the siege, not one has been rebuilt. Sixty thousand people remain homeless. Only a quarter of the promised $3.5 billion in aid from international donors has been delivered—much of it diverted to the Palestinian Authority, the Israeli puppet regime that governs the West Bank. And no one in Washington—Republican or Democrat—will defy the Israel lobby. No one will call for justice or stay the Israeli killing machine. U.S. senators, including Bernie Sanders, at the height of the Israeli bombardment last summer voted unanimously to defend the Israeli slaughter of a people with no army, navy, air force, mechanized units, artillery or command and control. It was a vote worthy of the old Soviet Union. Every senator held out his or her tin cup to the Israel lobby and chose naked self-interest over justice.
Israel, like the United States, is poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. MORE http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_i_support_the_bds_movement_against_israel_20150726/
6-29-15
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HAW [Historians Against War] RESOLVES TO JOIN
THE BDS MOVEMENT 4-20-14
[haw-info] HAW Proposes Work on Israel/Palestine
and BDS 
haw-info-bounces@stopthewars.org on behalf of Van Gosse
[vgosse@fandm.edu]
Thursday, April 17, 2014
6:08 PM
[“In the spring of 2017 after Trump became president, HAW
changed its name to Historians for Peace and Democracy (H-PAD) and adopted a
new mission statement, which you can find at https://www.historiansforpeace.org/new-policy-statement. Margaret Power and Van Gosse were
elected as co-chairs shortly afterwards and are still in those roles. The
website is at https://www.historiansforpeace.org. If you have other questions I'd be
glad to answer them as best I can. I'm no longer a co-chair but am still on the
Steering Committee. Jim O’Brien]
Dear
members and friends of HAW,
Following
the American Studies Association's
endorsement of a boycott of Israeli academic institutions, and the ongoing
debate in the Modern Language Association over a resolution to censure Israel's
violations of academic freedom, the Steering Committee of HAW began considering
what (if any) action we should take.
After
an extensive discussion, we agreed that the most appropriate process was for
the Steering Committee to vote on whether HAW as an organization should
publicly endorse BDS ("a campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions
(BDS) against Israel until it complies with international law and Palestinian
rights" -- BDS movement website, http://www.bdsmovement.net/).
The
majority of the SC has voted "yes" on this motion, committing us to
begin work. This was not a simple decision; some members spoke strongly in
favor of the position taken by historians Linda Gordon, Alice Kessler-Harris,
and Elaine Tyler May, that an academic and cultural boycott was
counter-productive and would be divisive, and that US activists should focus on
US policy, in particular its military support for Israel's
illegal occupation. Others countered that we can, in fact, do both,
that the boycott was the call of Palestinian civil society which deserves to be
heeded, and that it will have the greatest effect inside Israel, in terms of
motivating a turn to real negotiations and an end to the occupation.
We
support an academic boycott (of
institutions & their funding streams, not of individuals) because most
large universities in Israel have been helping the Israeli government to use
academic research as a cover for propaganda. Israel's government has pushed
ahead aggressively on archaeological excavations that expropriate Muslim holy
sites and Palestinian village lands, and much “archaeological research” in East
Jerusalem and elsewhere has proceeded with the financial backing of right-wing
Israeli foundations, through university conduits. The area around the Western
Wall, e.g., has been designated an "Archaeological Park" by the
Israeli government, consolidating Israeli ownership of a space that has in the
past been shared with Arabs; Hebron has similarly designated nearby Palestinian
lands “archaeological sites.” The trick is well known and understood by
Israelis (see, for instance, http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.567898). We as
historians need to counter this falsification of academic research.
What
shall we do now? How should this decision be implemented? Actions in
support of the academic and cultural boycott, and more generally against the
occupation of Palestinian lands, are an entirely new arena of work for HAW, and
we need to recruit a group of members who want to develop a program.
We propose the following steps:
1.
Form a working group of people interested in challenging the Israeli occupation
of Palestine, and US support for Israel, including work on an academic and
cultural boycott;
2.
If you are interested in participating in this group, please send an
email to Jeri Fogel (fogelj@mail.montclair.edu) and/or Van Gosse (van.gosse@fandm.edu);
3.
Once HAW's Israel/Palestine Working Group (temporary name) is formed, we
will generate an online discussion of its process and goals, and then hold a
conference call to discuss more in-depth;
4.
The result will be a plan of work for this and the coming academic year,
including possible subgroups.
We
welcome your thoughts and queries, and we hope many of you will sign up for the
new working group.
Van
and Jeri
HAW did pass a resolution endorsing BDS back in 2014. but hasn't
really worked on it. Several efforts were made to get the American Historical
Association to pass resolutions on academic freedom for Palestinians, but none
succeeded.
All the best,
Jim O’Brien 4-5-20
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"Before
the Next Bomb Drops": Three Poems of Liberation and Struggle in Palestine
and Beyond
Thursday,
10 September 2015 By Remi Kanazi. Haymarket Books | Poems
I wish I had read all of Haymarket’s books. --Dick
Children light candles in commemoration of their former home,
Zafer Tower Number 4, once an 11-story apartment building, in Gaza City,
September 11, 2014. (Photo: Wissam Nassar / The New York Times)
Three poems from Before the Next Bomb Drops.
Until It Isn't
death
becomes exciting
tolls, pictures, videos
tweeting carnage
instagramming collapse
hearts racing to break
tolls, pictures, videos
tweeting carnage
instagramming collapse
hearts racing to break
24-hour
entertainment
every glimpse, splinter
and particle of pain
jammed into torsos
and cheekbones
every glimpse, splinter
and particle of pain
jammed into torsos
and cheekbones
loved
ones
want to sit
for a minute
and cry quietly
want to sit
for a minute
and cry quietly
no
words, no poetry
before Internet and
dialed-up emotions
before black and
white ideologies
before Internet and
dialed-up emotions
before black and
white ideologies
before
a person
I called friend
defended massacres
before the victims
were laid to rest
before chemical weapons
ravaged insides
before refugee
meant grandmother
I called friend
defended massacres
before the victims
were laid to rest
before chemical weapons
ravaged insides
before refugee
meant grandmother
suffering
2.0
keyboard clicks
like bombs so effortlessly
dropping
keyboard clicks
like bombs so effortlessly
dropping
all
damage collateral
never personal
voyeurs hop on and off
like carnival rides
never personal
voyeurs hop on and off
like carnival rides
death
becomes
exciting
until it isn't
until boredom sets in
and desensitization begins
until the next ride emerges
somewhere else
more captivating
exciting
until it isn't
until boredom sets in
and desensitization begins
until the next ride emerges
somewhere else
more captivating
(Image:
Haymarket Books)
#InsideOut
building
bombed, beams through flesh
buried under rubble
suffocated to death
but only beheading is barbaric to the West
#Gaza
buried under rubble
suffocated to death
but only beheading is barbaric to the West
#Gaza
*
a
smashed window always rings louder
in the media's ears than the clacking
of six rounds emptied into
a Black teen's body
#Ferguson
in the media's ears than the clacking
of six rounds emptied into
a Black teen's body
#Ferguson
*
beat
so bad her
insides went silent
Muslim, covered
with blood
no
love or light found
on this Parisian block
#HateCrime
insides went silent
Muslim, covered
with blood
no
love or light found
on this Parisian block
#HateCrime
*
45 degrees
clear to the sky
still would terrorize
soldiers and police aim for the head
chest. kneecaps. ligaments. debilitate. disable
bilin. nabi saleh. oakland. athens. #teargas
clear to the sky
still would terrorize
soldiers and police aim for the head
chest. kneecaps. ligaments. debilitate. disable
bilin. nabi saleh. oakland. athens. #teargas
*
first
date
dad's cologne
scenting his skin
heart beating fast
house in the distance
stopped frisked groped
dad's cologne
scenting his skin
heart beating fast
house in the distance
stopped frisked groped
routine
checkpoint
blue bruises white cops
protect quotas serve the system
dealers of discrimination in uniform
#StopAndFrisk
blue bruises white cops
protect quotas serve the system
dealers of discrimination in uniform
#StopAndFrisk
*
1000
pound
bombs
don't inquire about
the sexuality
of victims below
#pinkwashing
bombs
don't inquire about
the sexuality
of victims below
#pinkwashing
*
repackaged
racism and domination
of natives may mask the messenger
but it doesn't transform the parcel
#LiberalZionism
of natives may mask the messenger
but it doesn't transform the parcel
#LiberalZionism
*
transphobic
feminists misogynistic socialists
anti-Black leftists ableist Palestinian activists
selective justice isn't a path to liberation
#NotJustUs
anti-Black leftists ableist Palestinian activists
selective justice isn't a path to liberation
#NotJustUs
Layover in Palestine
I.
on
a balcony in Bethlehem
Abu Iyad spoke slowly
in Arabic
as if a typewriter
were catching every
letter and intonation
Abu Iyad spoke slowly
in Arabic
as if a typewriter
were catching every
letter and intonation
his
wrinkled fingers
grappled with a coffee cup
contemplative and precise
contours of the Nakba
mapped into the history
of his face
grappled with a coffee cup
contemplative and precise
contours of the Nakba
mapped into the history
of his face
we
stood in front of
chopped-down olive trees
a stump-encrusted hillside
stripped of its fertility
barbed wire
choking the periphery
chopped-down olive trees
a stump-encrusted hillside
stripped of its fertility
barbed wire
choking the periphery
banned
from land
by occupation forces
who kicked down
his door and abducted
him and his son
by occupation forces
who kicked down
his door and abducted
him and his son
II.
feeling
like a tourist
outside my own skin
passing, never present
wanting to touch everything
I came in contact with
in case my palms never
pressed down on
this earth again
outside my own skin
passing, never present
wanting to touch everything
I came in contact with
in case my palms never
pressed down on
this earth again
every
trip like a last goodbye
entry never guaranteed
visa never guaranteed
nothing ever guaranteed
entry never guaranteed
visa never guaranteed
nothing ever guaranteed
what is the purpose of your visit?
where was your father born?
come with me
put that down
take that off
spread your legs
you understand that
this is for security?
where was your father born?
come with me
put that down
take that off
spread your legs
you understand that
this is for security?
you can go
words I thought
I would never hear again
a kid with peach fuzz
and a grimace
chest puffed
and trigger-finger itchy
what hollowed drones
humans become
words I thought
I would never hear again
a kid with peach fuzz
and a grimace
chest puffed
and trigger-finger itchy
what hollowed drones
humans become
got
through and felt lucky
got through and felt ashamed
got through and felt ashamed
that I felt lucky
the empire's passport
burning a hole
in my back pocket
got through and felt ashamed
got through and felt ashamed
that I felt lucky
the empire's passport
burning a hole
in my back pocket
just
want to sit and be present
feel what it is like to be home
without someone pulling
on my shoulder
taking me away
feel what it is like to be home
without someone pulling
on my shoulder
taking me away
Palestine
stays
under a microscope
always communal
never ours
under a microscope
always communal
never ours
it
is exhausting
struggle, liberation
a campaign, a Facebook post
an infographic, constantly searching
for the right words to say
the right message to bring
when all I want is to feel
present in this space
take in this breath
and exist here
if only
for a moment
struggle, liberation
a campaign, a Facebook post
an infographic, constantly searching
for the right words to say
the right message to bring
when all I want is to feel
present in this space
take in this breath
and exist here
if only
for a moment
Copyright (2015) of Remi Kanazi. Haymarket Books.
Remi
Kanazi is a poet, writer, and organizer based in New York City. He is the
author of Poetic Injustice: Writings on Resistance and Palestine and
the editor of Poets For Palestine. His political commentary has been featured by
news outlets throughout the world, including Salon, Al Jazeera English,
and BBC Radio. He is a Lannan Residency Fellow and an Advisory
Committee member for the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural
Boycott of Israel.
My blog is now titled War and Warming.
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Apartheid WEEK
US
Campaign to End the Occupation
Code
Pink’s Action Against the Settlements
Historians
Against the War Joins the BDS Movement
Sabra
Hummus Supports Settlements
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PALESTINIAN BDS DAY, MARCH 30, 2020
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