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Samidoun’s rallying cry: “Deepen efforts to build the international popular cradle of the Palestinian resistance”
In today’s age of information, history is not written by those in power. The powerful international consortium that orchestrated Israel’s genocidal violence against Palestinians might be able to push through the first drafts of history, but broader truths are inevitably uncovered through research and subsequent analysis.
The phrase “history is written by the victors” still carries weight as the victors censor, burn, “discredit” and slash, but it is muddied in this situation by the fact that the true victors are not the powerful, but rather the oppressed whose power, in the words of Palestinian cartoonist Mohammad Sabaaneh, is born of dreams.
As the buzz about the temporary halt to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza escalates, and gets more “complicated,” we need to hold on firmly to the broader truths. These were expressed in a simple and eloquent statement by Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, which has faced significant discreditation efforts, primarily from governments (the US, Canada and Germany) and organizations (Jewish and Zionist) that accuse it falsely of “supporting terrorism” and endangering “national security and stability” … i.e., the national security and stability, not of the United States, not…
