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Palestinians Have Not
Been Denied Is the Right
to Dream: The Fifth
Newsletter (2024)</span></span></span></strong>
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2024.</small></p>
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friends,</p>
<p
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from the desk of <a
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Institute for Social
Research</a>.</p>
<p
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26 January, the judges at
the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) <a
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that it is ‘plausible’ that
Israel is committing a
genocide against
Palestinians in Gaza. The
ICJ called upon Israel to
‘take all measures within
its power to prevent the
commission of all acts’ that
violate the UN <a
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on the Prevention and
Punishment of the Crime of
Genocide (1948). Although
the ICJ did not call
explicitly for a ceasefire
(as it did in 2022 when it <a
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Russia to ‘suspend [its]
military operation’ in
Ukraine), even a casual
reading of this order shows
that to comply with the
court’s ruling, Israel must
end its assault on Gaza. As
part of its ‘provisional
measures’, the ICJ called
upon Israel to respond to
the court within a month and
outline how it has
implemented the order.</p>
<p
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Israel has already <a
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the ICJ’s findings,
international pressure on
Tel Aviv is mounting.
Algeria has <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=7cddafd673&e=d206d0a40d"
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the UN Security Council to
enforce the ICJ’s order
while Indonesia and Slovenia
have initiated separate <a
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at the ICJ that will begin
on 19 February to seek an
advisory opinion on Israel’s
control of and policies on
occupied Palestinian
territories, pursuant to a
UN General Assembly
resolution adopted in
December 2022. In addition,
Chile and Mexico have <a
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upon the International
Criminal Court (ICC) to
investigate crimes committed
in Gaza.</p>
<p
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reaction to the ICJ’s order
was characteristically
dismissive. The country’s
national security minister,
Itamar Ben Gvir, <a
href="https://thetricontinental.us11.list-manage.com/track/click?u=6a79324d3b4acfde1e7e546c6&id=7ab637bf5e&e=d206d0a40d"
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the ICJ an ‘antisemitic
court’ and claimed that it
‘does not seek justice, but
rather the persecution of
Jewish people’. Strangely,
Ben Gvir accused the ICJ of
being ‘silent during the
Holocaust’. The Holocaust
conducted by the Nazi German
regime and its allies
against European Jews, the
Romani, homosexuals, and
communists took place
between late 1941 and May
1945, when the Soviet Red
Army liberated prisoners
from Ravensbrück,
Sachsenhausen, and Stutthof.
However, the ICJ was
established in June 1945,
one month after the
Holocaust ended, and began
its work in April 1946.
Israel’s attempt to
delegitimise the ICJ by
saying that it remained
‘silent during the
Holocaust’ when it was, in
fact, not yet in existence,
and then to use that false
statement to call the ICJ an
‘antisemitic court’ shows
that Israel has no answer to
the merits of the ICJ order.</p>
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(detail), 2024.</small></p>
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the bombardment of
Palestinians in Gaza
continues. My friend Na’eem
Jeenah, director of the
Afro-Middle East Centre in
Johannesburg, South Africa,
has been reviewing the data
from various government
ministries in Gaza as well
as media reports to
circulate a daily
information card on the
situation. The <a
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from 26 January, the date of
the ICJ order and the 112th
day of the genocide, details
that over 26,000
Palestinians, at least
11,000 of them children,
have been killed since 7
October; 8,000 are missing;
close to 69,000 have been
injured; and almost all of
Gaza’s 2.3 million residents
have been displaced. The
numbers are bewildering.
During this period, Israel
has damaged 394 schools and
colleges, destroying 99 of
them as well as 30 hospitals
and killing at least 337
medical personnel. This is
the reality that occasioned
the genocide case at the ICJ
and the court’s provisional
measures, with one judge,
Dalveer Bhandari of India,
going further to <a
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plainly that ‘all fighting
and hostilities [must] come
to an immediate halt’.</p>
<p
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the dead are <a
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of Palestine’s painters,
poets, writers, and
sculptors. One of the
striking features of
Palestinian life over the
past 76 years since the
Nakba (‘Catastrophe’) of
1948 has been the ongoing
richness of Palestinian
cultural production. A brisk
walk down any of the streets
of Jenin or Gaza City
reveals the ubiquity of
studios and galleries,
places where Palestinians
insist upon their right to
dream. In late 1974, the
South African militant and
artist Barry Vincent
Feinberg published an
article in the Afro-Asian
journal <i>Lotus</i> that
opens with an interaction in
London between Feinberg and
a ‘young Palestinian poet’.
Feinberg was curious why, in
<i>Lotus</i>, ‘an unusually
large number of poems stem
from Palestinian poets’. The
young poet, amused by
Feinberg’s observation,
replied: ‘The only thing my
people have never been
denied is the right to
dream’.</p>
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Mattar (Palestine), <i>Gaza</i>
(detail), 2024.</small></p>
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<p
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Mattar, born in December
1999, is a young Palestinian
artist who refuses to stop
dreaming. Malak was fourteen
when Israel conducted its
Operation Protective Edge
(2014) in Gaza, killing over
two thousand Palestinian
civilians in just over one
month – a ghastly toll that
built upon the bombardment
of the Occupied Palestinian
Territory that has been
ongoing for more than a
generation. Malak’s mother <a
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her to paint as an antidote
to the trauma of the
occupation. Malak’s parents
are both refugees: her
father is from al-Jorah (now
called Ashkelon) and her
mother is from al-Batani
al-Sharqi, one of the
Palestinian villages along
the edge of what is now
called the Gaza Strip. On 25
November 1948, the newly
formed Israeli government
passed Order Number 40,
which authorised Israeli
troops to expel Palestinians
from villages such as
al-Batani al-Sharqi. ‘Your
role is to expel the Arab
refugees from these villages
and prevent their return by
destroying the villages…
Burn the villages and
demolish the stone houses’,
<a
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the Israeli commanders.</p>
<p
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parents carry these
memories, but despite the
ongoing occupation and war,
they try to endow their
children with dreams and
hope. Malak picked up a
paint brush and began to
envision a luminous world of
bright colours and
Palestinian imagery,
including the symbol of <i>sumud</i>
(‘steadfastness’): the olive
tree. Since she was a
teenager, Malak has painted
young girls and women, often
with babies and doves,
though, as she <a
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the writer Indlieb Farazi
Saber, the women’s heads are
often titled to the side.
That is because, she said,
‘If you stand straight,
upright, it shows you are
stable, but with a head
tilted to one side, it
evokes a feeling of being
broken, a weakness. We are
humans, living through wars,
through brutal moments… the
endurance sometimes slips’.</p>
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<p
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Mattar (Palestine), <i>Two
Gazan Girls Dreaming
of Peace</i>, 2020.</small></p>
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<p
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and I have corresponded
throughout this violence,
her fears manifest, her
strength remarkable. In
January, she wrote, ‘I’m
working on a massive
painting depicting many
aspects of the genocide’. On
a five-metre canvas, Malak
created a work of art that
began to resemble Pablo
Picasso’s celebrated <i>Guernica</i>
(1937), which he painted to
commemorate a massacre by
fascist Spain against a town
in the Basque region. In
2022, the United Nations
Relief and Works Agency for
Palestine Refugees in the
Near East (UNRWA) published
a <a
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on Malak, calling her
‘Palestine’s Picasso’. In
the article, Malak said, ‘I
was so inspired by Picasso
that, in the beginning of my
art journey, I tried to
paint like him’. This new
painting by Malak reflects
the heartbreak and
steadfastness of the
Palestinian people. It is an
indictment of Israel’s
genocide and an affirmation
of Palestinians’ right to
dream. If you look at it
closely, you will see the
victims of the genocide: the
medical workers, the
journalists, and the poets;
the mosques and the
churches; the unburied
bodies, the naked prisoners,
and the corpses of small
children; the bombed cars
and the fleeing refugees.
There is a kite flying in
the sky, a symbol from
Refaat Alareer’s <a
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‘If I Must Die’ (‘you must
live to tell my story… so
that a child, somewhere in
Gaza while looking heaven in
the eye… sees the kite, my
kite you made, flying up
above and thinks there is an
angel there bringing back
love’).</p>
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al-Sa’di (Palestine),
<i>King Faysal I of
Iraq</i>, 1931.</small></p>
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<p
style="margin: 10px 0;padding: 0;mso-line-height-rule: exactly;-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%;-webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;color: #202020;font-family: Helvetica;font-size: 16px;line-height: 150%;text-align: left;">Malak’s
work is rooted in
Palestinian traditions of
painting, inspired by a
history that dates back to
Arab Christian iconography
(a tradition that was
developed by Yusuf al-Halabi
of Aleppo in the seventeenth
century). That ‘Aleppo
Style’, as the art critic
Kamal Boullata wrote in <i>Istihdar
al-Makan</i>, developed
into the ‘Jerusalem Style’,
which brightened the
iconography by introducing
flora and fauna from Islamic
miniatures and embroidery.
When I first saw Malak’s
work, I thought of how
fitting it was that she had
redeemed the life of Zulfa
al-Sa’di (1905–1988), one of
the most important painters
of her time, who painted
Palestinian political and
cultural heroes. Al-Sa’di
stopped painting after she
was forced to flee Jerusalem
during the 1948 Nakba; her
only paintings that remain
are those that she carried
with her on horseback. Sa’di
spent the rest of her life
teaching art to Palestinian
children at an UNRWA school
in Damascus. It was in one
such UNRWA school that Malak
learned to paint. Malak
seemed to pick up al-Sa’di’s
brushes and paint for her.</p>
<p
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is no surprise that Israel
has targeted UNRWA,
successfully encouraging
several key Global North
governments to <a
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funding</a> the agency,
which was <a
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by United Nations General
Assembly Resolution 302 in
1949 to ‘carry out direct
relief and works programmes
for Palestine refugees’. In
any given year, half a
million Palestinian children
like Malak <a
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at UNRWA schools. Raja
Khalidi, director-general of
the Palestine Economic
Policy Research Institute
(MAS), <a
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of this funding suspension:
‘Given the long-standing
precarious nature of UNRWA’s
finances… and in light of
its essential role in
providing vital services to
Palestine refugees and some
1.8 million displaced
persons in Gaza, cutting its
funding at such a moment
heightens the threat to life
against Palestinians already
at risk of genocide’.</p>
<p
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encourage you to circulate
Malak’s mural, to recreate
it on walls and public
spaces across the world. Let
it penetrate into the souls
of those who refuse to see
the ongoing genocide of the
Palestinian people.</p>
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