"Please die, it's great for us!" by Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib (Palestinian-American)
“Please die, it's great for us! In a conversation with a “pro-Palestine” individual that I hope one day soon will be available for the whole world to see, the person said the quiet part out loud: dead & maimed Palestinians in Gaza are excellent content on social media to help delegitimize Israel and make this cause popular.
When I pushed back and said that this is just what Sinwar & Hamas wanted and have long promoted, the individual said well, it’s tragic and sad, but they’re going to die anyway, so why not make their sacrifices count. I pleaded that we’re talking about my 12-year-old niece Farah, my dad’s youngest brother uncle Riyad, my aunts Zeinab, my khalo Abdullah, cousins Yahya and Heba, who didn’t want to be sacrificed for your protests and anti-Israel activism on college campuses, but to no avail.
This individual is not alone; for many alleged “pro-Palestine” activists, this is a spectator sport that has little to no impact on their lives and is a means through which to vector far-left cultist ideology and beliefs about resistance, post-colonialism, anti-Westernism, and faux theories of intersectionality.
I’ll say it again: the “pro-Palestine” movement outside of Gaza in general, and especially in the Western world, has devolved into one of the most anti-Palestinian groups of people I have ever encountered; their speech, actions, intentions, and views have consistently demonstrated this fact.
Please stay away from our cause and stop sucking the oxygen out of the room – my family and 50,000+ dead Palestinians are not sexy content for your Instagram and social feeds to fuel your ineffective, harmful, divisive, and harmful activism.”
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