What did you do during the genocide in Gaza? | Arwa Mahdawi

... when it is far too late for dissent to make any difference ...

i went to several protests, wrote/called my congressmen; sent money; and gamed the algorithms on tiktok that they tearfully begged for and it felt like it didn't do any good at all.

something tells me that it was already too late before it started and a huge majority of my countrymen continue to insist that people like me were merely single-issue-voters for making it a priority in the last election and they continue to do everything in their power to silence this form of dissent; effectively so.

The people with real power, however, will not be able to say the same; they will not be able to wash the blood from their hands. It seems likely that all this horror will eventually be pinned on Benjamin Netanyahu while others try to absolve themselves of blame. But this isn’t just Netanyahu’s genocide. This is the Biden-Harris genocide; the Trump-Vance genocide; the Keir Starmer and David Lammy genocide. It is Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s genocide. This is the mainstream media’s genocide. The list goes on.

We would not be where we are today were it not for the systematic dehumanization of Palestinians by the western media and the suppression of pro-Palestinian speech.

Words to live and die by