Hey WCC Community, today’s post is a bit different focusing on self education and asking questions. This post is an intro to the full post that will be shared in the next few days, however it seemed more appropriate to split the posts to highlight this one first.
The past two weeks have been been a crazy blur. In case you don’t know after Ramadan (a month where Muslims fast from sunrise to sunset from food and drinks) there’s a holiday called Eid-Al-Fitr which is a celebration of the end of Ramadan and being able to eat and feast again. If you want a proper definition Wikipedia can help, as I’m butchering this but you get the main idea. If you live in the middle east you’d get a few days off regardless of your religion to celebrate this occasion. For me this was planned as a half spend time with family time and half be productive through reading, researching, and writing more content for this blog time. Long story short none of that happened, which is the least of the actual horrific things that ensued in those almost two weeks.
Unless you’ve been disconnected from any news outlet or social media account you would’ve probably heard about the recent attacks on Palestine that have lasted for 11 days, which escalated on the last 3 days of ramadan and lasted throughout and after Eid-Al-Fitr. If attack doesn’t ring a bell it’s seen on the news as “conflict” or a “flare up” where many kids and families were bombed and killed in an alleged self-defense operation. One post won’t do this big cause justice, so I recommend you check the instagram of the below talented and outspoken young man @subhi.taha where he’s posted multiple informative and concise videos on what’s been going on in English. If you want a non-Palestinian viewpoint you can check Abby Martin’s instagram @fababs she’s an American journalist, and if that’s not enough far away opinion, you can read one of the many books by Noam Chomsky (an American linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist, historian, social critic, and political activist) and Ilan Pappé (an expatriate Israeli historian and socialist activist). amazon link
It’s important to create space for these crucial topics and Palestine is definitely one.
That’s it for this post, in the next few days we’ll dive further, but for now I encourage you to leave this post and head to their instagram, see and be the judge yourself, and maybe learn something new.
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Till next time !
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