Yassine Chaouche

@susanabulhawa has made critical contributions as a brilliant Palestinian writer, human rights activist and advocate. I was fortunate to meet her in March 2024, when she was leaving Gaza as I was entering. She is brilliant and I'm so lucky to have met her. Listen to her Oxford Union speech (full version link below). "We are not here to debate if Israel is an apartheid or genocidal state... This debate is ultimately about the worth of Palestinian lives. It’s about the worth of our schools, our research centers, our books, our art. It’s about the worth of the homes we spent our whole lives to build, which contain memories of generations. It’s about the worth of our humanity, our agency, our bodies, our ambitions. If the Palestinians had spent the last 8 decades stealing Jewish homes, expelling, oppressing, imprisoning, poisoning, torturing, killing, raping them... If Palestinians had killed an estimated 300,000 Jews in one year, targeted their journalists, their thinkers, their health care workers, their athletes, their artists- bombed every hospital, university, library, museum, cultural center, synagogue, and simultaneously set up an observation platform where citizens came to watch their slaughter as a tourist attraction... If Palestinians had coralled them by the 100s of thousands into flimsy tents, bombed them, burned them alive, cut off their food and medicine... If Palestinians made their children walk barefoot with empty pots, made them gather the flesh of their parents in plastic bags, made them sneak out of their tents at night to sleep on their parents graves, made them pray for death- Just to join their families and not to be alone in this terrible world... If a Palestinian sniper bragged about blowing out dozens of kneecaps in one day... If a Palestinian admitted that he drove over hundreds of Jews with his tank, their squished skin languishing in the tank treads. If we destroyed their children, then decorated our tanks with their toys... There would be no debate if that constituted genocide." At the Oxford Union- make sure to watch the full video (not the edited version). Full version here: youtube.com/watch?v=tnadx3_f…