Mohammed El-Kurd: "There are no soapboxes in the concentration camp"

Mohammed El-Kurd, on Gaza. From the event 'How Empires End'- London, December 2023

"There are no soapboxes in the concentration camp. We simply do not understand what life inside Gaza does to a person. What violence that violence begets.

We do not know the mental and muscular
consequences of transforming a cab into a hearse to deliver a loved one, now dead in a body bag. Which man will the boy carrying his brother's limbs in a backpack grow up to be? And where do we get the right to condemn him?"

"The industry standard is to dehumanise
Palestinians. Our grief is negligible, our rage
unwarranted. Our death is so quotidian, that
journalists report it as though they're reporting the weather. 'Cloudy skies, light showers, 3,000 Palestinians dead in the past ten days.' And much like the weather, only God is responsible. Not armed settlers, not targeted drone strikes."

"I don't want to sit here and draw a perfect victim portrait, because perfect victims are boring and impossible. When we try to conjure up perfect victims, we are shrinking the scope of humanity for everybody around us. When we try to dictate who is and isn't mournable, who can we and can't we grieve with, when we emphasise the death of women and children, as though the death of our men is not
heart-breaking, we are shrinking the scope of
humanity for everybody else."

"We can't just be bystanders in this genocide. We all have an active role to play. Over there, they are subjected to a genocide, but here we are at war, and each of us has an active role to play."

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