Status Updates From No Land to Stand On: Notes ...

"This is not a world that failed to act. This is a world that acted decisively, to fund the detention camps, to arm the agents, to build the cages, to spit on the law. It is the same world that sent the bombs, blocked the resolutions, smeared the witnesses, arrested the mourners, starved the population, burned the tents."

The fact that he couldn’t himself narrate the chapters about missing his son’s birth, and had to get a friend to help him do it, is so 😭.

The message was simple: This could be you. Your rights will not protect you. Your innocence will not protect you. We can take you in the night, and there is nothing you can do about it.

The king wanted to send a message, and I was the messenger, sent to everyone who might consider speaking out. Every student who might join a protest would get the message, every person who might dare to criticize Israel or question American policy, domestic or foreign. The message was simple: This could be you. Your rights will not protect you. Your innocence will not protect you. We can take you in the night, and

Most of the DHS agents who handle him are people of color. A reminder that it is NOT ONLY white conservatives that have turned the U.S. into a loudly fascist state. The culprit is the SYSTEM of white supremacy, into which racialized people can be complicit foot soldiers and pawns.

They took him. He had FULL LEGAL RIGHTS to be in the U.S. and they fucking KIDNAPPED HIM right out of his home in front of his terrified wife. If this doesn’t prove to you that NONE OF US ARE FREE UNTIL PALESTINE IS FREE, I don’t know what will.