Resisting Obfuscation, a personal note

Reflections on our newest endeavor, The Call, and the need for clarity within the movement for Palestinian liberation.

A Palestinian man and his cat sit in a Palestinian neighborhood of Haifa after the occupation of the city and the forced depopulation of its Palestinian residents, 1949. Photo from PalestineRemembered.com

Dear friends,

We’ve just launched our Substack, The Call, after serious consideration of how to best move forward with sharing our regular newsletters, forthcoming analytical pieces, and personal communiques like this one. We have much more planned for the coming months and year, so I thought I would share my thoughts about this space in the context of our collective’s history and some of our goals moving forward.

For more than two years we have watched as the US-Israeli death machine dramatically escalated the long process of Palestinian genocide, targeting those Palestinians trapped in the tiny enclave of the Gaza Strip. The horrors, filtered through screens and only illustrating an iota of the true experience in Gaza, are earth-shattering, even for those of us who study the horrors of colonialism in Palestine and around the world. Speaking for myself, it is the thoughtful interventions of knowledgeable people around the world that have helped to provide direction across the long chain of moments since October 7th — externally, as words and action, as well as internally, in the form of psychological support to continue believing in the possibility of another, better world that is achievable.