
by Ismail Shammout
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(un) Dear Zionists:
Isn’t it amazing that you hope
in fooling yourselves and others so easily
that you can
also
fool me?
As though I am unaware, or long ago stopped to care.
Isn’t it amazing that you think
by stealing my land,
my cuisine
and declaring tabboula
as “Israeli salad”, it becomes your own?
As though I won’t recognize cultural appropriation when it is sown.
Isn’t it amazing that you insist
on calling the
occupied territories of Palestine
“Israel”?
Like it will erase the reality that
a Palestinian people were ever real.
Isn’t it amazing that you believe
by omitting maps of land theft in textbooks
it is as though you were never murderous crooks,
and that, by omitting genocidal facts in the education system,
you can pretend Palestinians wiped each other out,
out of barbaric desperation.
Isn’t it amazing that you think
in denying what you support,
what you’ve done,
what you’re doing,
criminalizing, abusing, and marginalizing me,
that you can strip away my heritage and identity?
No, zionism-infected minds
and a thousand times no!
You can ignore the truth of who you are,
although
at the cost of your dignity, integrity
and humanity. But…
you will
never
ever
erase me.
Signed,
- a Palestinian
Fierce piece of work I love the emotions you place within this piece. Thank your for an amazing read
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