When I learned about the holocaust in school I was always baffled by the fact that it went on for so long.
I was shocked that cities and countries full of people knew what was happening and so many of them did nothing.
I was devastated that so many people, so many children, were brutally killed.
And now, in the year 2024, I am sitting in my room and I am reading and I am weeping.
this is what I weep about:
A 12 year old boy who was shot by Israeli police.
A pregnant woman who was beaten and raped in front of her husband and family.
Journalists and reporters who have been targeted and murdered.
Relief workers bringing starving children food targeted and murdered.
Doctors and nurses and ambulance drivers targeted and murdered.
Multiple discoveries of mass graves.
12,300 children who have been murdered.
1.5 million innocent civilians in Rafah who are being trapped at the border and bombed in the city with no where else to go.
I am sitting here in my room,
warm and fed and safe,
and absolutely ashamed of this world.
and I weep for the people of Palestine.
and I rage at the American government for funding and supporting this genocide.
and I despair, for we are now the people I read about in the history books.
