Palestinians

Palestinians (Arabic: الفلسطينيون, romanized: al-Filasṭīniyyūn) are an Arab ethnonational group native to the region of Palestine. They represent a highly homogeneous community who share one cultural and ethnic identity, speak Palestinian Arabic and share close religious, linguistic, and cultural practices and heritage with other Levantines.

Quotes

• We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.
  • Nelson Mandela, Address at International Day of Solidarity with Palestinian People, Pretoria, South Africa, 4 December 1997

• A lesson we ignore at our peril is that oppression undermines not only the rights, dignity, and lives of the oppressed but eventually the security of the oppressors as well. The apartheid system that’s been suffocating Palestinians for so long is now also undermining the safety of Israeli civilians.
  • Phyllis Bennis, We Need an Immediate Ceasefire in Gaza, Counterpunch, (October 20, 2023)

• The situation in Palestine just does not concern the Arabs or Muslims at large rather the entire humanity. Palestinians are no expendable people. All those responsible for the crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people must be held accountable.
  • Muhammad Yunus, Address at the 79th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), New York, 27 September 2024

• What Kuwait did to the Palestinian people is worse than what has been done by Israel to Palestinians in the occupied territories.
  • Yasser Arafat, as quoted in "The Palestinians, Alone" by Efraim Karsh in The New York Times (1 August 2010).

• Put an end to the ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people that is taking place while the world stares in amazement.
  • Fidel Castro, World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, South Africa, 1 September 2001.

• The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognised by all.
  • António Guterres, Non-Aligned Movement Summit, Uganda.

Colonizers write about flowers.
I tell you about children throwing rocks at Israeli tanks
seconds before becoming daisies.
I want to be like those poets who care about the moon.
Palestinians don’t see the moon from jail cells and prisons.
It’s so beautiful, the moon.
They’re so beautiful, the flowers.
I pick flowers for my dead father when I’m sad.

— Fuck Your Lecture on Craft, My People Are Dying by NOOR HINDI.