Falastin Quotes

“That an Israeli soldier could bulldoze 189 olive trees on the Land he claims is part of the "God-given Land" is something I will never comprehend. Did he not consider the possibility that God might get angry? Did he not realize that it was a tree he was running over? If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Haha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haifa for instance, I would never uproot a tree an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it. And as I talk about Gaza, I remember that Gaza is but a little part of Pales tine. I remember that Palestine is bigger than Gaza. Palestine is the West Bank; Palestine is Ramallah; Palestine is Nablus; Palestine is Jenin; Palestine is Tulkarm; Palestine is Bethlehem; Palestine, most importantly, is Yafa and Haifa and Akka and all those cities that Israel wants us to forget about.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“That an Israeli soldier could bulldoze 189 olive trees on the Land he claims is part of the "God-given Land" is something I will never comprehend. Did he not consider the possibility that God might get angry? Did he not realize that it was a tree he was running over? If a Palestinian bulldozer were ever invented (Haha, I know!) and I were given the chance to be in an orchard, in Haita for instance, I would never uproot a tree an Israeli planted. No Palestinian would. To Palestinians, the tree is sacred, and so is the Land bearing it. And as I talk about Gaza, I remember that Gaza is but a little part of Pales tine. I remember that Palestine is bigger than Gaza. Palestine is the West Bank; Palestine is Ramallah; Palestine is Nablus; Palestine is Jenin; Palestine is Tulkarm; Palestine is Bethle- hem; Palestine, most importantly, is Yafa and Haifa and Akka and all those cities that Israel wants us to forget about.”
― Refaat Alareer, Gaza Writes Back

“Genocide is not an opposing view
(Sonnet 3216)

When it was "Slava Ukraini",
it was not hard to say.

When it was "Free Poland",
it was not hard to say.

When it was "Vive la France",
it was not hard to say.

But when it's "Free Palestine",
whitewashed apes get tonguetied!

The Blitz was a humanitarian crisis,
but Gaza is apparently a political matter!
Why, because it's never about human rights,
it's always about narrative privilege,
inherited from the good old colonial days.

Many people smoke and drink, I don't,
these are opposing views, and can coexist
within moderation, but the support
of genocide is not an opposing view,
it's an animal practice -

and animals need to be restrained,
not respected - they need to be
confronted, boycotted, and sanctioned,
until they start behaving like human again.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer

“When it was “Slava Ukraini”,
it was not hard to say.

When it was “Free Poland”,
it was not hard to say.

When it was “Vive la France”,
it was not hard to say.

But when it’s “Free Palestine”,
whitewashed apes get tonguetied!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Jashn-e Insan: Stranger is God, Helping is the Prayer