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As we brace for another massacre, I stroll the headlines... more articles about Oct 7th. Wow. Four months later, 100,000 dead missing injured and the western calendar hasn't moved a day. But, really who am I kidding? We've been stuck on Oct 7 for decades, trapped in their victimhood, entitlement to our land and lives. Their crimes are defence, our defence is terrorism. They are humanised and we are ungrievable. We die, we don't get killed. We disappear, we don't get ethnically cleansed. We migrate, we don't get exiled. We lose wars, we don't get colonised. We lose jobs, we don't get forced out. We lose funding, the lobby has nothing to do with it, it would be antisemitic to assume that obvious connection. Calling for equality is counter productive. Demanding rights makes us radical. Grieving our losses make us Hamas supporters. They get to cling to one day of suffering, while we are told to move on and be forward looking. We are told to see everything through this still calendar, where Oct 7 stretches into the past and into the future to justify our erasure. #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #October7
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