From Palestinian writer Susan Abulhawa, the author of many great books like Mornings in Jenin. Re-posted from social media.

one of the most overlooked and underestimated forms of resistance is memory.

we must all remember, because, Israel is banking on their zionist tentacles in tech to scrub their crimes from the internet;

on the tentacles in media to justify, obfuscate, spin, and mystify their crimes;

on Hollywood and entertainment tentacles to brainwash another generation;

on political tentacles to criminalize the truth and truth-tellers;

on academic tentacles to promulgate another invented history;

so make sure you remember everything you’ve seen in the past two years. believe your own eyes and ears. believe your own heart that knows evil, because everything around you will gaslight you into believing you didn’t see what you saw, that you didn’t hear what you heard, that your heart is wrong, that conscience is bad and the wholesale slaughter of children and defenseless families was necessary. remember, and save the files, organize and categorize those files, date them, and geolocate them.

memory is our revenge. truth is our revenge. and eventually, the laughter of our children in a liberated Palestine is our revenge.

The conclusion of Susan Abulhawa’s epic debate performance at the Oxford Union last week. Please take time to study it in its fullness. Abulhawa is one of Palestine’s most compelling and accomplished novelists.

You will not erase us, no matter how many of us you kill and kill and kill, all day every day. We are not the rocks Chaim Weizmann thought you could clear from the land. We are its very soil. We are her rivers and her trees and her stories, because all of that was nurtured by our bodies and our lives over millennia of continuous, uninterrupted habitation of that patch of earth between the Jordan and Mediterranean waters, from our Canaanite, our Hebrew, our Philistine, and our Phoenician ancestors, to every conqueror or pilgrim who came and went, who married or raped, loved, enslaved, converted between religions, settled or prayed in our land, leaving pieces of themselves in our bodies and our heritage. The fabled, tumultuous stories of that land are quite literally in our DNA. You cannot kill or propagandize that away, no matter what death technology you use or what Hollywood and corporate media arsenals you deploy.

Someday, your impunity and arrogance will end. Palestine will be free; she will be restored to her multi-religious, multi-ethnic pluralistic glory; we will restore and expand the trains that run from Cairo to Gaza to Jerusalem, Haifa, Tripoli, Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Kuwait, Sanaa, and so on; we will put an end to the zionist American war machine of domination, expansion, extraction, pollution, and looting.

…and you will either leave, or you will finally learn to live with others as equals.