Resilience and tragedy of Palestinian children and their teachers on show in heartbreaking video
Yesterday, more than a thousand orphans graduated school at the Al-Wafa Orphan Village in Gaza despite Israel’s genocide continuing around them. They and those watching were full of tears because the children have no surviving parents or adult relatives to attend the graduation ceremony – all have been murdered by Israel:
The graduation is a tribute to the resilience of the children and of the adults that still take the time during the genocide, despite their own tragedies and hardships to teach the children and make them feel loved – but no child, nor those teaching them, should have to endure such horrors.
Israel is a terror state and the UK government its enablers.
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It is good that we’ll never be completely drained of tears and thankfully words.
Is a brilliant piece in the New Left Review (May/June 2025) ‘Palestine Through A South African Lens’ by (tragically the late) Michel Burawoy which I highly recommend.
Why has the Zionist settler colonial state doubled down on the expulsion and killing of Palestinians, when the equally brutal apartheid regime in SA had instead conceded the one state solution of universal mass sufferance?
He argues “SA was founded on Labour exploitation, Israel on land expropriation” (white South Africans were far outnumbered by the black population, yet Jews & Arabs are roughly proportionate).
And the dependence of SA capital on the black w class gave the latter structural power whilst racialized struggles against apartheid promoted its associational power but Israel’s declining dependance on Palestinian Labour undermined the latter’s structural power whilst it was also fragmented with expulsions.
The ANC, Communist Party & trade unions in SA were also United but in Palestine the opposition were divided.
Burawoy offers hope in the fact that “The voices of Palestinians are finally ringing out across the world.”
As Burawoy also points the US over the years has given $300b to Israel (almost a third of a trillion) but if my figures are correct (based on FT calculations that Israel’s economy is being hit by $20b a month, though this now might be more with increased divestment eg Norway’s Wealth Fund) Israel’s economy might now have been hit by Half a trillion ($500b) which is unsustainable.
And Palestinian intellectual Olymar argues “Palestinian’s need a new grassroots approach.”
Solidarity.
News anchor’s reaction to recent AP News recording of the sounds of Palestinian children in a IDF prison.
https://youtube.com/shorts/o-KnCRi24W8?si=5kSUqGth4up_Yiz7
Some of you may find this policy paper published by Israeli academics of interest. It”s a very long read but worth the effort for the insight it gives.
https://www.inss.org.il/publication/war-policy-2025/
Above piece by me above should be “Universal mass suffridge.”
Oh dear, take 3:
“Universal suffrage.”