If you live in a place with free speech then use it and speak up, because Palestinians living under the Zionist occupation don’t have that luxury.Nott x reader fic with reader trying to help her unhealthy coping Muhammad el Kurd, as well as many other Palestinian activists, are regularly arrested and detained by the only democracy in the Middle East (Israel) if them speaking out against the crimes/abuse they face gets too much attention.

Thanks to the fact that this was a live interview, Muhammad managed, without being cut off or having his word edited out, to list all of Israel’s war crimes and straight out called it what it is “settler-colonialism” as well as calling out the US’s historic bias toward Israel. The only reason this interview went viral, is because it’s the first time a major American network like CNN had interviewed an actual Palestinian that’s directly affected by the violence, when all the other networks were busy interviewing Israeli ambassadors about their side of the story. The man name is Muhammad el Kurd, he’s one of the residents in Sheikh Jarrah who are facing ethnic cleansing right now, he has just been arrested from his own home by Israeli forces after his interview went viral. Here are some backups (sadly in bits only), since some social media - like Instagram, conveniently deletes some posts about what’s happening in Palestine. Thanks CNN for taking my testimony about settler-colonialism.“

I’m happy that you cannot edit a live interview, because there’s no way I could have spoken so bluntly about the myth of “both sides” and Israeli “self-defense” had this been prerecorded. “I knew this interview was going to have a biased, inaccurate framing, and it did from the start. Mainstream Western media, Ladies and Gentlemen.īelieve it or not, this reporter was actually somewhat professional by the typical standards we see from channels like CNN.

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