The reasons why you care about Palestine should be the same reasons why you care about other genocides. Fundamentally it should all come from the same place, that’s what I see so many people missing. Making Palestinian genocide into something ‘unique’ is missing the bigger picture, if you think Palestine is somehow a separate crisis from other genocides happening in the world, you don’t understand the genocide at all - sorry not sorry. The ‘it’s a religious conflict’ or the ‘it’s an ethnic conflict’ does not cut it.
if you actually understood Palestine for what it is (the theft of land, resources, colonialism, indigenous resistance, anti imperialism), you can see the connecting lines everywhere. In my opinion, this should be the most crucial info you carry in any Palestine activism you do - Palestine is not unique and that’s what makes it so horrifying. As a Palestinian I really implore people to reject any sort of exceptionalism, its incredibly harmful to other victims of genocide (most notably I see this with Sudan, DRC, and it reeks of anti-blackness) and its harmful to us as Palestinians as well. There is literally nothing to be gained from pointing at other genocides and going ‘well this one is worse’.
It’s not just about Palestine, it’s about everyone.
