happy birthday to the brilliant edward said, who devoted his life to the liberation of his people from israeli apartheid. here he recounts the profound depravity of being banned from returning to his homeland by those who invaded and took it over

at one point edward said wanted to have a debate with that genocidal freak netanyahu, but he refused to even be in the same room with said given his virulent racism as is recounted here

in the face of that kind of virulent genocidal racism, edward said used the weapon of wit to reveal its depravity, as he does brilliantly here with the common slur of "terrorist" that is regularly thrown at palestinians

alongside his invaluable contributions to the cause of palestinian liberation, edward said was also a revolutionary scholar, developing the concept of orientalism to reveal and counter racist stereotypes about the east that pervade western scholarship

here are some great texts by edward said:

orientalism (PDF: monoskop.org/images/4/4e/Sa…)
culture and imperialism (PDF: monoskop.org/images/f/f9/Sa…)
covering islam (unfortunately no PDF for this)
this piece: lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v22/…

and also this documentary:

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