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audiobook (danke Libby🫶🏼)

“We must not wait for Haaretz or the New York Times to arrive at the miraculous epiphanies we have long called common truths. We should purge their prestige in our minds, the prestige that renders a Times acknowledgment of an eyewitness account more valuable than the account itself.
There are many ways to describe what I am demanding: decolonizing the press or controlling the means of production.”

This is insanely good

“The very moment that the Palestinian exits the womb, he is “unchilded”—flung away from childhood by a “machinery that exists everywhere and always” and treated as both a good-for-nothing nobody and a dangerous ticking bomb at once” […] “It is the dehumanization of Palestinians, one Nakba at a time, that has led us here: the demonization of our people, one Intifada at a time:”