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I look at these photographs and imagine my ancestors roaming these streets, my grandparents raising my father as a child running around free like a bird before the massacre on April 9, 1948 (71 years ago today) that completely traumatized their lives forever. #DeirYassin 
My grandfather Muhammad and grandmother Khadija died never to return back home so that Criminal Zionist Europeans can take over because they believed it was their divine right to massacre and forcefully depopulate my family. #DeirYassin #Palestine
Same with my father, he died never to fulfill his dream to RETURN HOME to the streets he played in as a child.
I remember my father taking me here to our ancestral village (Deir Yassin) during the First Intifada (late 1980’s). #DeirYassin #Palestine #DeirYassin71
I remember my father taking me here to our ancestral village (Deir Yassin) during the First Intifada (late 1980’s). #DeirYassin #Palestine #DeirYassin71
I remember him picking up & eating figs from what was his backyard as a child. I remember him turning away from me crying with this hands on his face not wanting me to see him weep. After he cried his eyes out he pointed to his family home & I replied where is it Yabba (father)?
My father pointed again and said: “Son, it used to be here, on this very spot, it no longer exists,” referring to his childhood home. His words sent shivers throughout my body that still reverberate today. I can’t get his words and crying out of my head. It’s a painful memory.
I still remember the oath I gave him. The oath to never forget #Palestine.
At 12 years old (the same age my father survived the #DeirYassin Massacre), I promised him like a soldier being sworn to protect his country, that I would never forget Palestine and will always remember.
At 12 years old (the same age my father survived the #DeirYassin Massacre), I promised him like a soldier being sworn to protect his country, that I would never forget Palestine and will always remember.
I promised my beloved father (who has since passed away) to never forget his (our) ancestral beloved village, #DeirYassin. An activist, organizer & villager was born. I was ready to fight this injustice against our people, the Palestinians. It is a fire that has since never gone.
The promise continues by commemorating our beloved village of #DeirYassin located on the outskirts of West Jerusalem, 71 years later. We will fight with every means possible, until #Palestine is liberated from the River to the Sea! I love you Yabba! Free Palestine! #DeirYassin71
