Palestinian Tatreez is a beautiful tradition of embroidery. I didn't really do it justice in this quick sketch, but what we're watching is the destruction of a people and their culture. It is an attempt to erase their existence as the colonizers did with the indigenous communities of the Americas, Africa and Australasia. To remove one's history, any hint of their presence; what a horror. This has gone on since at least the Nakba of 1948, where entire villages were purposely destroyed and built over by the Zionist colonizers from Europe. They showed no care then, nor today for the natural landscape, much less its people, building an existence that depended on the non existence of another.
Today, some of the very people doing land acknowledgments in the US are supporting and even committing this genocide. Acknowledge the land and its rightful caretakers, not just in name, but in action. Who destroys olive trees, infrastructure and all life?
The US insists on backing this genocide. The "Democratic" party warns that if not them, we get the Republicans. Neither serves us, nor any other human value. This has been going on for so long that today we find ourselves in a state of exponential loss.
It's not too late to pay attention and push back. We owe it to those who can't, and those who keep on trying despite that.
@palestinianvoicestoday
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