If more groups decided to use Zionist logic, I invite you to reflect on what would happen to you and your family.
In my case, if someone made the “This land is ours from thousands of years ago” claim and had increasingly powerful militias to back them, I could be ethnically cleansed from my home.
My family could be uprooted, killed, or threatened with violence, villages around my village destroyed, and massacres committed to make sure people leave.
Then, I’d be called ungrateful, violent, and hateful if I’d call out the brutality of this situation. If I did anything.
People who’d support this kind of thinking would cheer, blame me and my family, or, best-case scenario, say nothing, urging me to accept that “This is just how things are now and I’m an obstacle to peace.”
“Things are in the past”, they would say about ongoing injustice.
Decades of ethnic cleansing and an increasingly entrenched system of apartheid later, genocide would be unleashed on my people for resisting being pushed into a concentration camp and kept there for years.
The violence of my uprooting wouldn’t be acknowledged.
The continuous oppression in its various forms would be minimised or completely ignored.
My dehumanisation would be the norm; any response to the violence of my oppressor would be presented as a purely hateful act, completely ahistorical, and, if possible, blamed on religion.
Some of the world’s so-called intellectuals would come on TV and spend hours never mentioning ethnic cleansing, military occupation, children murdered and tortured in prisons during what the world considers “peacetime”; and a brutal siege.
My existence would be my fault. An inconvenience. A crime.
As my family would be exterminated with the help of other colonial powers – my mom under the rubble of a building bombed, my dad executed by foreign troops, my sister in a hospital undergoing surgery without anesthesia – all documented on social media, I would look at the international community.
How can you accept it?
How can you accept such a simple idea – that no other modern nation-state in the world claims – without accepting the injustice and violence that it means, on the ground, for actual people, for decades?
“This land is ours.”
10,000 children under the rubble.
10,000 children under the rubble.
10,000 children under the rubble.
How can you accept it?
I invite you NOT to accept it.
I also invite you to urge your governments to support the lawsuit that South Africa is bringing against Israel in the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing a crime of genocide.
(If you’re from Lithuania, my country, you can do it here)
I also invite you to donate, if you can, to Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.
Stay strong, check on others, and keep your heart open.
❤️💔❤️
Justina
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