I am watching this right and Refaat says the following: "Of course we always fall into this trap of saying, 'she [Fadwa Tuqan] was arrested for just writing poetry!' We do this a lot, even us believers in literature...

https://twitter.com/thaqafatalhind/status/1732874062265733584

"[We say] 'Why would Israel arrest somebody or put someone under house arrest, she only wrote a poem?' So we contradict ourselves sometimes; we believe in the power of literature changing lives, as a means of resistance, as a means of fighting back,

Zionist holocaust denial did not arise out of a vacuum and the argument that Hamas is ‘worse’ than the Nazis because the Nazis ‘had remorse’ can only be understood as a product of a much larger colonial orientalist epistemology that both preceded and engendered Nazism The idea that the “Arab” is a fanatical, violent “creature” without remorse is a horrifically racist caricature that precedes Nazism and Zionism and is a product of European racial/national ideologies, and something later nationalisms (like Zionism) vociferously indulged in

ס׳איז דא א מחלוקת וועגן „ווי אזוי מע דעפינירט ציוניזם” — דאס הייסט אבער צעטראגנקייט. אקאדעמיקער זענען זיך מתחייב צו „פארגעשיכטלעכן” אידעאלאגישע און פאליטישע באגריפן, צו פארבינדן באוועגונגען מיט זייערע מקורים און סיבות, נישט זיך צו פארלירן אינעם רעאקציאנערישן געטומל. און צו זאגן אז מע קען דעפינירן „ציוניזם” אן קיין שום אויפמערק אויף זיין מקור, טויג נישט 🤷‍♂️ אויב ס׳איז געווען א תקופה וואו ציוניזם וואלט געקענט האבן א טייטש מחוץ די באדינגונגען פון היינטיקן מדינת־ישראל, איז אזא תקופה שוין פארביי.

taught yiddish for almost 3 hours today feeling very 😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁 literally i was tired and then i got into class and suddenly i wasnt

Bundist memoir of travels to Egypt in 1921:

„Talking amongst themselves, the small group of [Egyptian] Jews around me learned that I was planning on traveling to Palestine. They became suspicious of me—that I might be a Zionist—and as I soon found out, that would not be... a good thing in the eyes of the Sephardic Jews. One of them, the oldest, carefully quizzed me if I was a Zionist since I plan on traveling to Palestine.

"Foolish Sephardic Jews, they don’t even know that Zionists aren’t even traveling to Palestine...