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"never again means never again for anyone"

"many of our elders have been alive longer than the State of Israel; we must work so that they live longer than the apartheid regime they are protesting."

Doikayt is both a rejection of the 'over thereness' of Zionism, which roots Jewishness in one particular (heavily mythologized) geography, and a rejection of the idea that redemption (liberation if you prefer) is something that comes from outside us, from divine intervention, from otherworldly design. We are bearers of our own future, and we cannot wait for saviors to do that work on our behalf."

"rejected Zionism in favor of doikayt. Doikayt means "hereness," a rootedness in place, a commitment to fight for our liberation and the liberation of all in the present, wherever we find ourselves. Wherever you are in this world, there is justice work to be done, and doikayt is one principle of our responsibility to do it.

"We will no longer allow the forces of imperialism and settler colonialism to manipulate us or others into complicity or perpetration."

"the largely unconditional 'special relationship' between the United States and Israel is no longer defensible on strategic grounds."

"The colonial situation manufactures colonialists, just as it manufactures the colonized ... every colonial nation carries the seeds of fascist temptation in its bosom."

"What was once extreme right is today center. Ideas that were once on the fringes have become legitimate."

"In Israel, the attack on 7 October has been describes in apocalyptic terms and always tied to the Holocaust: "single-worst massacre of Jews since the Holocaust," as if the reason for their killing was their Jewishness."

"the most important shift taking place is the renewed realization amongst nations across the Global South of their shared struggle against US imperialism and the fact that unity is the only way to dismantle systems of oppression including the military-industrial complex, which is killing thousands in Palestine, Congo, Sudan, Haiti, and Armenia."

- to assert sovereignty on the North of Sinai.”

“The Egyptian government should be pushed to keep the crossing open—not for the purpose of displacing Palestinians, but rather as the bare minimum measure needed to avert more horrors.”