[News] What Palestinians Had to Say About It : One Year Since the Unity Uprising
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Wed May 18 17:20:55 EDT 2022
Today marks one year since the General “dignity” Strike of 18 May 2021,
which mobilised Palestinians across Palestine from the River to the Sea,
and the circulation of the Dignity and Hope Manifesto by Palestinian
activists.
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Today marks one year since the General “dignity” Strike of 18 May 2021,
which mobilised Palestinians across Palestine from the River to the Sea,
and the circulation of the Dignity and Hope Manifesto
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by Palestinian activists. This month marks one year since what
Palestinians are now calling the Unity Intifada. Since the events of
last year, Palestinians continue to experience ever-increasing levels of
repression, assaults and colonial violence by Israeli forces.
Nonetheless, we continue steadfast in our fight for liberation with a
strengthened desire and hope as a united Palestinian people. As our
revolutionary path continues to evolve, we take a moment now to reflect
back on this journey.
*Here is a compilation of reflections by Palestinians on what happened,
where we stand now, and where we could go:*
*Defying colonial fragmentation and regaining ownership over our narrative:*
* The Unity Uprising was led by young people across Palestine and in
the diaspora, who overshadowed the failing political structures and
factions in place: ”Youth were responding to Israeli oppression as
well as to a crisis of representation within Palestinian politics,
which lacks any avenues for real political participation.”**- wrote
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Akram Salhab & Dahoud Alghoul.
* “Perhaps the greatest accomplishment thus far has been to
demonstrate the actuality of liberation”, writes
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Hassan referring to the synchronised resistance efforts against
Israel’s assaults on Jerusalem, besieged Gaza, and ‘48 Palestine.
* The grassroots and digital mobilisation efforts defied decades of
colonial fragmentation and subjugation. Yara Hawari writes
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/45468124/346085213/1596144921?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwNS8xLzgyMDMwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImE1NTBkNzIxLWQ5ZDYtZWMxMS1iNjU2LTI4MTg3OGI4YzMyZiIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiY2xhdWRlQGZyZWVkb21hcmNoaXZlcy5vcmciDQp9&hmac=I3FzXc-gb7I7E8729IwXoWvUXRl1B403_DKpvq7o5Hc=&emci=e3e70766-c1d6-ec11-b656-281878b8c32f&emdi=a550d721-d9d6-ec11-b656-281878b8c32f&ceid=18958873>:“Palestinians
are reclaiming a shared narrative and struggle from the Jordan River
to the Mediterranean Sea.”
* Palestinian youth raising the Palestine flag over their cities
occupied in 1948 went viral
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declaring in a way that here too is a colonised land, erasing years
of Israeli divide and conquer tactics.
* Videos of Palestinian refugees in Jordan marching to the borders
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connect them with Palestine also went viral, a symbolic visual of
them exercising their right of return using the hashtag
#LetsMarchToTheBorders (originally in Arabic).
* Palestinian youth took over social media platforms using hashtags
including #SaveSheikhJarrah
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#SavesSilwan, #SaveBeita, ان_للنكبة_ان_لا_تستمر#, which soon
gathered a large following online that directly uplifted the voices
of Palestinians and events on the ground speaking louder than media.
* Despite mass takedowns and censorship of their content on various
digital platforms, Palestinians found creative ways to bypass and
trick the algorithms online
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using platforms like Tajawz
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encodes Arabic characters into unrecognisable words to break the
process used by algorithms to flag and remove content.
*Palestinians from Jerusalem, the Galilee, Nablus, Yaffa, Haifa and
Ramallah were organising themselves and **practicing**their rightful
self-sovereignty as one united people:*
* On 18 May, Palestinians between the Jordan River and the
Mediterranean Sea called and participated in a general strike
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that came to be known as the Al-Karameh (dignity) strike.
* A Palestine Economic Week
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also organised to strengthen the local Palestinian economy and end
Israel’s capitalist chokehold, which has long pushed for
Palestinians’ deprivation, dependence and reliance on its colonial
economy for decades.
* Palestinian civil society organised to also raise funds and
organized a cooperative funds to support and release Palestinian
detained by the Israeli police
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* Furthermore, Palestinian civil society activists united and wrote
the first manifesto detailing our goals and vision of coming out of
the Unity Uprising. They named it: The Dignity & Hope Manifesto
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/The song "Inn Ann" was adopted as the anthem of the Unity Uprising/
*Under settler colonialism, uprooting indigenous populations is the
norm, not the exception and remains a reality from 1948 to this very day:*
* The Israeli settler-colonial regime has always vested itself in
creating narratives that legalise and justify replacing indigenous
narratives:“Be it through manufacturing ‘real-estate disputes’;
demolishing homes built ‘without authorization’;[and] stealing lands
by declaring them to be ‘military zones,’ ‘archaeological sites,’
‘environmentally protected,’ or ‘state-owned’”, writes
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Mohammed Al-Kurd.
* While the Israeli High Court ruled to annul the expulsion orders of
the Sheikh Jarrah, Karam Al-Jaoni families, allowing them to catch a
breath momentarily, the families reminded us
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justice will not be served from occupation’s courts: ”The battle to
solidify our rights in our lands and our homes is far from over”.
* Yet, the Israeli regime did not stop the takeover of other parts of
Sheikh Jarrah, continuing targeting more families, including
displacing the Al-Salhiye family from their home
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/45468137/346085226/1443101342?nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwNS8xLzgyMDMwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImE1NTBkNzIxLWQ5ZDYtZWMxMS1iNjU2LTI4MTg3OGI4YzMyZiIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiY2xhdWRlQGZyZWVkb21hcmNoaXZlcy5vcmciDQp9&hmac=I3FzXc-gb7I7E8729IwXoWvUXRl1B403_DKpvq7o5Hc=&emci=e3e70766-c1d6-ec11-b656-281878b8c32f&emdi=a550d721-d9d6-ec11-b656-281878b8c32f&ceid=18958873>for
the second time since 1948 and demolishing their family business.
* As Safa Joudeh analysed in a thoughtful piece,
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"Gaza’s exceptional status is the actively planned outcome of a
series of invoked regimes particular to the territory but rooted
within a framework of Israeli colonial and occupation practices",
and the Unity uprising has contributed to de-exceptionalize Gaza.
* More Recently, Palestinians from Beita and Al-Naqab (Negev)
<https://click.everyaction.com/k/45468139/346085228/-803653937?v=40R_P0UhnF8&nvep=ew0KICAiVGVuYW50VXJpIjogIm5ncHZhbjovL3Zhbi9FQS9FQTAwNS8xLzgyMDMwIiwNCiAgIkRpc3RyaWJ1dGlvblVuaXF1ZUlkIjogImE1NTBkNzIxLWQ5ZDYtZWMxMS1iNjU2LTI4MTg3OGI4YzMyZiIsDQogICJFbWFpbEFkZHJlc3MiOiAiY2xhdWRlQGZyZWVkb21hcmNoaXZlcy5vcmciDQp9&hmac=I3FzXc-gb7I7E8729IwXoWvUXRl1B403_DKpvq7o5Hc=&emci=e3e70766-c1d6-ec11-b656-281878b8c32f&emdi=a550d721-d9d6-ec11-b656-281878b8c32f&ceid=18958873>adopted
resistance tactics and deployed energy drawn from the Unity
uprising, to fight against the persisting and ongoing policies for
their ethnic cleansing, and ongoing Nakba that has not stopped.
* This is also the case of our people in Masafer Yatta, with the
Israel High Court ruling this May 2022 to forcibly expel thousands
of Palestinian families from
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area in the south Hebron Hills, greenlighting the largest single
expulsion of Palestinians since 1967.
*Despite the narrative shifting, aggression and violence against
Palestinians continues and Israel’s colonial subjugation will remain so
long as it continues to enjoy impunity:*
* Months after the Uprising, Israel criminalizedleading Palestinian
NGOs
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Zena Agha writes that: ”The effective criminalization of Palestinian
institutions and the expansion of the settlements are two sides of
the same coin.” Further explaining that the ultimate goal is to
repress dissent against those who expose its human rights
violations, obstruct its colonial expansion and push for
accountability.
* Since the start of 2022, Israel’s relentless violence has continued,
in almost complete mainstream media blackout, assassinating more
than 45 Palestinians on both sides of the green line
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* Furthermore, the Jenin refugee camp continued to resist
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while the Israeli occupation forces invaded the camp once again and
imposed a siege on its people as a form of collective punishment for
their steadfastness against the generations-long brutal occupation.
* The Israeli occupation forces invaded Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Ramadan,
during the Fajer (dawn) prayer, assaulting worshippers
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and desecrating al-Aqsa mosque on full display.
* The besieged Gaza was also bombarded, yet again: “Wounds from May
2021 haven’t fully healed yet in Palestine. Families still mourn
their dead, homes that were reduced to rubble haven’t been rebuilt,
and children are still traumatised by what they saw. The scenes from
Jerusalem today remind me of the lead-up to May 2021”, tweets
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Jehad Abu Salim.
*Media distortions and inaccurate representations continue to be
integral in maintaining the status quo of Israel’s subjugation and
oppression of Palestinians:*
* “By neglecting to contextualise Israeli state violence, the media
has given the Israeli government a free pass, enabling it to
continue ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people with impunity.
It is time for outlets to address the harm they have done.” Wrote
Albast and Knar on the media blackout over Israel’s intensification
of violence
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and killing of Palestinians during Ramadan.
* Our team curated a Media Memo for journalists, reporters and media
outlets
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bridge the gap and ensure that Palestine stops being an exception to
accurate, fair and ethical reporting.
As we reflect back on this anniversary, perhaps the most important
takeaway from our Unity Intifada is the path forward that we are
collectively envisioning for ourselves, and our persistent and continued
revolution against oppression, colonial ruling and ongoing Nakba. Put
beautifully by Amjad Iraqi, we end by sharing his words that capturethe
most crucial lesson from our movement since May
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*“Another war or uprising may well be on the horizon. But a movement
without resources is doomed to wither, and a struggle without direction
is fated to be lost. We know that slogans aren’t enough: only a serious
recalibration of power — through grassroots organising, government
action, economic independence, media pressure, and more — can shift the
tide against our colonial condition.”*
Even after more than seven decades of oppression, Palestinians continue
to defy colonial fragmentation, insisting on regaining agency over our
narrative, exercising our self-sovereignty, and creating historic
moments that are made possible only by the persistence of our crucial
advocacy on the ground and internationally to emancipate ourselves from
Israel’s oppression. In doing so, Palestinians continue to embody
liberation, determined to lead strategically and in unity.
Haneen Kinani,
International Advocacy Officer
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