Ghassan Kanafani and the era of revolutionary Palestinian media | The Listening Post (Feature) 

I'm writing my thesis on him. He's Che Guevara of Palestine. Never seen such a fearless writer.

Nothing but admiration for his courage and determination in the face of oppression

Just seeing after the conflict has rosen the ceiling in Palestine, and I'm chilling hearing Ghassan Kanafani speech. You can't kill ideology of being freedom, you can't force silent of being occupation, you can't stop fighting to be liberation! From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be FREE 🇵🇸☝️

All Israelis and western leaders together can not equate the shoelace of Ghassan Kanafani❤

This message rings so true today. I wish we could see the whole interview. It’s not a war. It’s a liberation defence.

A Great HERO of the oppressed people, who spoke without fear

“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every honest person living in this planet.” ~ GHASSAN KANAFANI

Hero of Palestinians, Red Salute to Him. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇸

He was one of the most important heroes of Arabic world

Ghassan’s words are still relevant and western media ignorance is still relevant

i love this man. so much. we need him today more than ever

Israel should beg forgiveness for 75 years of rape, theft & murder against the Palestinians! Shameful , this man stood up for Freedom he will never be forgotten!! Love from Spain 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

He says it the best. In simple words he stated facts about palestine. People need to wake up and see it for what it is.

What a creative and intelligent human being we always lose the great minds too early R.I.P.

Salute to this great comrade and to all of the heroic Palestinian people! A true example to us the Chicanos of Aztlan inside the belly of the imperialist beast! Viva Palestina! Viva Aztlan! C/S

"to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights is something as essential as life itself." Those words sum up the sentiments of any patriot in any oppressed country. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩as Bangladesh was also oppressed by pakistan as well British.

Wow, he owned that interview.

A true revolutionary

Ghassan understood what it takes to be free. That's why the Israelis murdered him. May his soul RIP and may his vision remain alive.

Commando who never fired a gun Weapon was a ballpoint pen and his arena newspaper pages Love and respect from Bangladesh

This interview just shows how much the ability to control the narrative in a conflict, is crucial. The Palestinians didn't succeed in imposing their narrative and as a result they were completely dehumanized in the west and their needs overlooked for decades yet, if we choose to look just at the plain facts, these people were brutally ousted of their land, overnight, to permit the creation of a Jewish state. How is that fair ? I can't begin to fathom why Arabs of all people, had to pay for European crimes toward Jews ? To this day, Palestinians are slauthered, bombarded, persecuted ... simply because they are Palestinians and want a Palestinian state. It is a sinister irony of History that the descendants of Holocaust survivors managed to create another Holocaust.

The Israelis has killed a true freedom fighter and a great Palestine writer and he would have made a lot of difference to the middle east peace today if he is still alive and not killed by the heartless Israelis regime. We long and pray for an Arab journalist and leader like him who is fearless to the cause of free Palestine.

I rewatch this interview everyday

You are always in our hearts. Blessing from Pakistan

"That is a conversation between a sword and a neck" 🍉

His words are so true today...... unfortunately so😢

Listening to this again and how relevant it is even today!

He is beautiful inside and outside 😍

We need another documentary on ghassan Please Al Jazeera we need more great content like this more then ever

Ghassan Kanafani 🇸🇾❤️🇵🇸

Without spilling blood, no fight is a fight. Without carrying on a relentless battle, life turns burdensome. When the fight ceases to exist, the urge to surrender creeps in. However, surrender itself is nothing less than humiliation. So to live a life with guts is way better than carry forward a life of humiliation.

Your 'S' is simply soo soothing... Love it

Very strong voice

"Kind of talk between sword and the neck" whooooooo chills

why is there no documentary about this great patriot

I grew up in Australia watching 60 minutes for years. The reporter that interviewed Kanafani is Richard Carleton, he was a presenter on 60 minutes for a long time until his death in the mid 2000s. I remember watching this interview a long time ago but never knew that it was Richard Carleton that interviewed Kanafani. It’s become quite iconic that the poor questions from Carleton has led to such legendary responses from Kanafani.

I can’t believe I’m here and I’m related to ghassan kanafani

“If you want to understand any problem in America, you need to focus on who profits from that problem, not who suffers from the problem." Ghassan Kanafani

He was so smart and what the liberation movement really needed and that why they killed him. His pen was more powerful than a gun, and that frightened them.

That guy was just great ❤️

What an excellent presentation.

whatever .. its not whatever this is a Liberation !!! so fearless and meaningful

I was named after his niece, the little girl who accompanied him in life and death, Lamees.

Timeless revolutionary

اللَّهُمَّ زِدْنَا وَلا تَنْقُصْنَا ، وَأَكْرِمْنَا وَلا تُـهِنَّا ، وَأَعْطِنَا وَلا تَحْرِمْنَا ، وَآثِرْنَا وَلا تُؤْثِرْ عَلَينَا ، وَأَرْضِنَا وَارْضَ عَنَّا

AL JAZEERA MAKE ANOTHER GHASSAN KANAFANI DOCUMENTARY

Killing a man and his niece with a car bomb is terrorism or is not? And that so many people still love him today does show his ideas are stronger than violence. So how can those people who have used violence because they don't have the better ideas can use the word terrorist against those whom they killed because they had the better ideas? How delusional is that?

He was a man of principles, Arabs have failed against west and Israel look at afghans they taught them a lesson single-handedly.

If he’s looking down and seeing what’s happening to Palestine now … I don’t think there’s even any words to describe what’s happening now … the sword in the neck

"What colonialism does, is to create homelessness for the people.....home is to which you belong, what gives people the freedom for possibilities to live..." and this living is humanity as it allows us to have our multidimensionality, freedom, justice, and dignity.

This applies today 10 times more then it sid when he said this

His words make them shiver…..

I love him so much. Free Palestine from the river to the sea. Rest in peace. Your people are fighting like lions to get their land back🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

I read Men on the Sun. It was a deeply touching experience.

I love him!

I admire him 👍

Just finding out about G. K. Rest In Power.💚 Freedom, Justice and Equality for Palestine 🇵🇸 Be healthy y'all 🌿

May Allah have mercy on him we need more people like him in our world today

Palestine we are with you forever 🇹🇷♥️🇵🇸♥️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

I just love him❤

The leader of Popular Palestinian Liberation Front is Ghassan Kanafani ❤he was born in Palestine but fled in 1948, as he puts it, from Zionist terror 😢

Atlast now Palestinian struggle started to be heard

What an amazing man I’ve never heard of him until today 🤦🏽‍♂️ & question to any book readers, does anyone know the title & author of a book that is based on an Israeli male going into Palestine pretending to be Palestinian to see what they go through first hand?

We was the most wanderful Palestinian Heroe

Compilation of Al-Hadaf issues should be a gem. Are those translated into Bangla or English? His رجال فی الشمس has been translated into Bengali from Arabic, but who holds his copyright now?

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why were there so many revolutionaries in 1960s? almost all the most prominent activists are from that era the interviews from then are so powerful. why dont we have anything like that now?

R.I.P

It's not that the world don't want to hear, it's that we don't agree or don't care.

Richard Carlton did journalism a deep, deep disservice in that exchange with Kanafani.

Justice for shireen 🕊

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See the world map of 1920 Palestine 🇵🇸 existed since time immemorial. 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇵🇸 is the winner 🇵🇸🏆. 🇵🇸

😢😢from indonesian

A True Warrior of hes People & Islam.

Ghasaan kanafani❤

The Pen is mightier than the sword, as they say. The strongest of all weapons is the ability to reason well and fairly. Long live humanity.

long live ghassan

Hey RU-vid stop making Al Jazeera videos hard to find You just can’t handle the truth ? Not once in these docs have I seen Qatar’s ownership being a problem to getting to the truth

الله يرحمك❤

Paletinian Hero

where do i buy his books

Rest in peace bro,

🙏❤️‍🔥 A blessed soul. A prophet. Dignity, respect, and human rights. Two commandments of Allah/God: 1. Love one's self (in order to) 2. Love one's neighbour, brother, sister. If disrespected in any way, go back to the first commandment, whereby thought, emotion, and action become one movement, under Allah and over the oppressor.

Falasteen will teach America what it has turn it back on أ عطني الحرية أعطني الموت “Give me liberty or give me death " the words of Patrick Henry, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first governor of Virginia. A gifted orator and major figure in the American Revolution, his rousing speeches- which included a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature in which he famously declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"-fired up America's fight for independence. Free Falsteen فلسطين حرّة Desert Storm Veteran مقاتل عاصفة الصحراء المخضرم

Would have been interesting to see what Khanafani would have gone on to if he hadn't have been assassinated.

Subhana Rabbi al A'la. He speaks as a noble of Old, of the knights of the Mulimeens. The quality of this kind of man has now left us! The ummah itself is corrupt as well as the alimmah. Each soul must protect itself against a Day no being can avail another. King Hussein removed his army (the Jordan Expeditionary Force trained by the British, was the only professional army on the field of battle) battlefield of 1948 his soldiers in a winning position at the Behest of the British and by order of the Americans. The assassination attempt on his life consequently was predictable. Neither your name, rank, status tribe, the wealth of the world, and how you Arranged it or your lineage will protect you on that Day. "with a flick of my pen, i created Trans-Jordan" Winston Churchill. Why do you think the British Monarchy shows preference to these traitors?

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'We're all bad in someone's story' give humans an escape to do whatever deems right to 'them' without going into details .. mere surface talk is not enough !!! A very insightful interview that invokes the ability to go into details ... to unfold the layers of any matter (better call it issue), just like an onion ... !

يجب أن تؤمن بالحق أن كل ما يمنحه الله أو يسمح به هو لخلاصك.

patria o muerte, palestine always

We Kashmiris know the suffering of the Palestinans living under the brutal regime of Modi who is our Satanyahu

All i can say is Allahu Akbar!

Israel can carry out its crimes because of the backing of the imperialist powers. In fact Israel only exists because those powers needed a reliable ally in the middle east to have some control over the regions energy reserves and trade routes. How was the guerrilla armed struggle meant to change this? The Palestinians have a right to resist but armed resistance won’t solve the crisis. Moreover the PFLP relied on patronage from the Arab nationalist regimes. The only social force that can stop the slaughter is the international working class so the essential struggle a political one among workers, students and youth around the globe. The following is relevant QUOTE … [The SEP’s] criticisms of Hamas are of a political, not hypocritically moralistic character. It is a bourgeois national movement, and the methods it resorts to, including a military operation such as that undertaken on October 7, cannot result in the defeat of the Zionist regime and the liberation of the Palestinian people. Moreover, to the extent that Hamas depends upon the patronage of one or another bourgeois regime in the Middle East, its struggle against the Zionist state will always be subordinated to the interests of the capitalist ruling elites of the region, and, therefore, to their reactionary maneuverings with the Israeli regime and world imperialism. In the final analysis, the liberation of the Palestinian people can be achieved only through a unified struggle of the working class, Arab and Jewish, against the Zionist regime as well as the treacherous Arab and Iranian capitalist regimes, and their replacement with a union of socialist republics throughout the Middle East, and, indeed, the entire world. … From WSWS: Socialist internationalism and the struggle against Zionism and imperialism David North 25 October 2023

Oneday we wll be free from israeli colonization. Dear friend Kalafani

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

Free Palestine!!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

An international peacekeeping force is required to protect holy sites and civilians from this cruel inhumane occupation.

Free palestine. 13 oct 2023

Qatar is a beautiful country Alhamdulila