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Palestinian grief is only legible if it is forgiving and reassuring to those in power. The people’s humanity is recognized through a refusal to hate. That expectation is obscene. Hate is valid in the face of such violence, and insisting on forgiveness from the bereaved is another form of dispossession as it strips them of emotional sovereignty. "Moral clarity" more like cruelty dressed up as humanism.
— Jan 07, 2026 10:35AM
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Edanur
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He reflects on his own impulse to search for additional brutality in Omar Asad’s death, even though the violence was already undeniable, and how deeply internalized colonial logics make Palestinian lives seem grievable only when their suffering is extreme and fully proven. A personal reckoning and critique of how love and solidarity can unintentionally reproduce the structures that normalize Palestinian death
— Jan 01, 2026 06:35AM
