A beautiful collection of poetry that covers the Palestinian experience under Israeli occupation. An important read that I think should be required reading. I read this as an ebook so the formatting could be off at times but overall it was a thought provoking read!

“Palestinians are not the only people to suffer at the hands of settler colonialism and Western white terrorism. Yet we cannot afford to stay quiet about what is taking place there. The state of Israel and the justification for its existence are a crimes against all of humanity. The state is the worst of the human spirit manifested into a fully functioning government.”

“Tell our children the word soldier means what it shouldn't that terrorists look nothing like what God on TV says they should.”

“What is a fact in Arabic is debatable in English”

“portrayed my people only in the ways that adhere to ethnocentric civility, robbing them of their agency. It is to ‘women and children’ Palestinians to death—to infantilize Palestinians in hopes of determining that, indeed, they deserve liberation.

This practice of infantilization stems from the ahistorical depictions of Palestinians and Zionists in the media. Ironically, the regime with one of the world's most lethal armies does not require humanization. The world can grieve Israeli loss without qualifiers, despite the disparities in the death toll. In contrast, we must qualify our dead with reminders of their nonviolence, humane professions, and disabilites.”