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Decolonisation is a key value of the Sameer Project and @translatingpal ✊🏽

For centuries, the Global Power has been with the West mainly Europe and North America who have colonised hundreds of countries and continue to do so. Aside from physical colonisation (e.g. French Territories) the West also controls the narrative. The supposedly best minds graduate from”ivy leagues” whereas those who graduated from top schools in the Global South aren’t nearly as recognised. The mainstream media outlets portray countries in SWANA as a monolithic of poor and backwards people. Hollywood portrays our men as terrorists, our kids as barbaric and either hypersexualize our women or portray them as “oppressed” and lacking of agency. To liberate Palestine, we need to start with decolonizing our own minds. Colonisation wants our kids to fight over food barefoot, colonisation wants us to beg for aid, colonisation tells us that Western organisations will save us, colonisation tells us that those not educated in the West or in Western institutions are “less than,” colonisation tells us our accents are weird and funny, colonisation tells us that we don’t know what’s best for us, colonisation tells us to follow international law when they don’t, colonisation tell us that they are the leaders of human rights while they fund killing babies, colonisation tells us that dark skin is ugly, colonisation tells us that those with coloured eyes are the most beautiful. Colonisation is problematic as fuck. Decolonise, decolonise, decolonise.