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This is why I tune into the culture first with trusted sources/commentators like Amanda. Too many of us are tuning into a news system that was slated to work against us and we hold their truths before our own. Thank you Amanda (and your sister) for always passionately putting in the work so many of us take for granted. You truly are a sister in my head ❤️
But people turn into the exact thing you said when it comes to your own people. So why are feeling guilty. You get the same energy back. True reciprocation. Not taking the higher road. Because everybody in the world uses various things that come thru the same filter system against black people with no hesitation.
I agree. As an American, I was taught to stand up for what’s right time and again in the context of genocide. This is beyond hypocritical and heart wrenching to witness. I pray for a complete change of situation. This is dead wrong.
amanda this episode reaffirmed and grounded my almost desperate search for information on Israel’s occupation of Palestine it also didn’t neglect nuance thank you and your sister for so generously passing her family story on to us! I cherish her contribution to the shared knowledge of this community! I feel a great since of sorrow but my work/research is not done I feel like there are great social and physical genocides happening on both sides of the equator. Being this aware isn’t new to my lived experience. The more I learn the more I realize how helpless and vulnerable everyday people are to the powers at be!
One of my best friends is Palestinian and her father told this same story of leaving for a couple weeks til things cooled off and never being able to return to Haifa.
I've always known the conflict as the Israeli occupation of Palestine. And this goes back all the way to the 80's but looking deeper, I've learned that it actually spans all the way back to the late 1800. Yes, there is a lot to learn, but in respect for all the lives lost, we owe it to them to educate ourselves by relying on those who know more than we ever could on our own.
For a second I thought Amanda was doing a parody,because they look so much alike.Awesome discussion,it’s shows like this that I enjoy because they educate.Great job!!
This was profoundly beautiful and so vital to hear. Nat’s family history was so illuminating and haunting in so many respects. Thank you for sharing, I am so grateful. I pray the smell of orange blossoms finds your mom and I pray for a truly a free Palestine 🇵🇸. Thank you habibti Amanda too, you are a gift!
Thank you for releasing this episode! I am glad you said she is your sister because ya’ll look alike and I was blown away by the way by how much you look like😮
Just checked this out today. What a great conversation and history lesson on the situation between Israel and Palestine. Thank you for re-posting Amanda, and thank you to you and your sister for the education and information. As you said, the more we learn about this, the more we can draw connections between our history and that of other cultures and relate to each other as human beings.
Thank you for this academic and personal synopsis. The personal accounts of your extended family are not unique. Uncovering individual family histories are the collective history of a people. What a blessing that your sister still has her grandparents. I've heard similar stories in my husband's family. We need to hear more from people who are connected to these lived experiences and not just professors who often leave out important facts showing their bias. I recently saw a professor on a network "news" program say that there was no such place as Palestine, so the land was free and sparsely populated. Yet the letter written by Balfour to Rothchild literally states " His majesty's government view with favour the establishment in PALESTINE of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object....." When it comes to defending Israeli violence, the question is often asked, "what alternative does Israel have?" After hearing your sister's family narrative and knowing my husband's family history, I ask the question "what alternatives do the Palestinians have?" Of course, if I ever posed that question without the You Tube cover of anonymity I'd be a target and placed on a watch list of some sort. I do not condone violence at all but we have to be careful of naming one side's violence as justified while calling other side's the "tr" ist/ism word. As a total aside, I thought that your sister was you!
Thank you! As a Palestinian I truly appreciate you using your critical thinking skills and thinking about how we literally have no other choice than to use violence. We’re still being killed in the West Bank as well as Gaza
I saved this video because because I knew I was going to watch it, and im so glad I did. The goose bumps I got when Nada said that they still have their house keys. Ugh... Amanda, the parallels you made between the genocide in Gaza, what happened to Native Americans, and African Americans was so spot on. God bless you for posting this. I'm praying for your sister, her family, and all other Palestinians who have either lost their lives and are directly affected by this.
South Africa’s apartheid government also studied Canada and Australia’s treatment of indigenous people. Israel also supported the apartheid government in South Africa.
I forgot to add that America supported the apartheid government too. I was 11 at the time. I remember the American president trying to keep the south African president in power and belittling black people who were supportive of south African people. I also remember France claiming usa was biased due to the trade relationship at the time. South africa was kinda rich then.
@@annmariebusu9924 yes. All of the Western leaders did. Including Margret Thatcher. They didn’t actively help the apartheid government building nuclear weapons and train their army like Israel did though.
Thanks Amanda for this, I needed clarity knowing that the African global space is oppressed, colonised etc. This really isn't about oppression olympics, this situation is haunting me and challenging my humanity.
Just two days ago, I told my friend that I really didn’t know anything about the history of Palestine. He then informed me very similarly to what I’ve learned in this video. And I realized that a lot of my subconscious absorption of this conflict came from an American strategic defense perspective which has built a prejudice that was NOT AT ALL based in fact. Thank you for this exposure.
@29:51 There is actually a PBS series called Little Bird that shows on Saturday evenings about how Native children in Canada and the US were forcibly taken from their homes and communities and given to Jewish families who wanted to adopt. The Wasp-Y Yts didn't want to give Yt Christian children to the Jewish adoptive families AND the Jewish adoptive families didn't want to adopt Blk children, so they would give them Native children as a two-fold solution... you could force these Native children into assimilation which would kill the Native community and thus their claims to the land AND you could give Yt Jews a child to adopt. Little Bird is a narrative style story based on true events, which are little known.
These are the stories that genocide tried and tries to erase; exactly why they need to be shared w humanity. Thank you immensely for sharing your precious family memory.
Thank you Amanda for sharing. It's a great opportunity for me to not only learn from your Sister, but find out more of what's going on in truth on my own!
“Unfortunately a lot of times we see the oppressed find liberation in being able to oppress in the way they that were oppressed…that is not a true state of liberation” Wheeeww! THAT’S IT
Here's the sad thing....while I remember what happened at the mosque it became convoluted in the MANY massacres & pogroms so it became another story stacked up in many. So going back can you imagine if ANY Muslim attacked a synagogue.. put the people in restraints and then ransacked the place there would be righteous condemnation....but it didn't The sad thing is (someone correct me if I'm wrong) but the IDF went in there TWICE & did the same thing. The oppressed has taken to oppressor like a fish to water
I'm so happy I came across this episode. I wanted to understand this conflict, but I wanted the facts. Thank you Amanda and your sister ❤ yall look like twins 😊
Its refreshing to hear this from an Black perspective with palestinian ties. However my concern is for the Afro palestinians that reside in gaza as well as the Ethiopian jews, Black american Hebrew Israelites and others from different mainland Africa nations that reside there.
We cannot rest until Palestine is free. I’m so glad we have social media to spread the truth. They can’t lie like they did about Iraq. Also the 4 classifications of race under apartheid South Africa were European(white), African/black, coloured (not the same as mixed race because it’s multiracial and multiethnic race classification.), and Indian.
OMG, I have been trying to understand what’s going on and this is the first breakdown that has helped me really understand - thank you!!! Side note - at first glance I thought you were having a conversation with yourself and you were portraying both sides…I was like “Amanda has a conversation with herself…this is brilliant!!!” Then I realized it was your sister who is a a nutritionist (like me) but y’all are just beautiful ❤
I always would wonder how could people allow the Atlantic slave trade, and slavery to prevail for so long. The Palestine genocide...our response to it is how it happened. Fear, misinformation, willful ignorance, siding with the bully and the pschotic unfeeling oppressor over WHAT IS RIGHT is how it happened. I'm so sorry to know that and to have been a part of the problem through silence and the distraction of fighting for our rights on this soil as well.
Not your similar spirit only, she has your whole face. Either daddy jeans are way strong or his preference of physical qualities in women transcend heritage 😂
How awesome that it's TWO powerful women on this earrh speaking facts and raising voices for those who cannot speak. Thank you so much for this episode. When folka have the audacity to silence you using the "you're not Palestinian...." you have your doppelganger sister. ❤
Thank u for this Amanda....just painful. This hits hard as a South African. Many of our grandparents were forcefully removed from their homes by the Apartheid government....this current day her former home is part of the Garden route...which is now a holiday area today.....with lush land for farming.and holiday homes....
Thank you so much for sharing this with us!!! So essential during this time, and hearing from someone whose family directly experienced this is very impactful and undebatable. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!
did she just say that the Palestinians were not allowed to purchase guns (sounds familiar)- you have to respect the fact that they have laws and even if the laws are flawed doesn’t make it right because in the usa- they claim to have freedom and democracy for everyone but THEY deny Blacks the same rights as everyone else
Thank you for shedding light on this Palestinian genocide and emphasizing that education, information, is key. The world would be a better place if we all took time to open our minds up to education on history, current events, AND diversity.
Thank so much for having this conversation in public for us, this episode has been so informative. Even as someone who knows about the Nakba, its different hearing a first person accounting of it. I'm sharing this video everywhere cuz ppl need to feel that. What does it mean to be annexed? What are the parallels in history to the occupation of Palestine? This is so important 👏🏿
This is such a beautifully executed informative video. Thank you so much for bringing the truth to light ❣️I would add that - the market place - that Nada was speaking on. It’s important because it was a space that all 3 religions occupied, peacefully. This is why it was always targeted.
You're awesome and this is powerful. Here in South Africa we support the struggle of the Palestinians and their fight for dignity and freedom. It brought me to tears...to hear that she didn't feel free to say she's Palestinian. By the way Isreal supported the Apartheid state and even helped it develop a nuclear program. Keep up the great work 👍🏾 👏🏾 💪🏾
So relieved that you covered this… and sharing your inner dialogue surrounding your insecurity with how “complicated” it is. It sounds similar to my own inner dialogue. I’m learning now.
Another thing that ppl don't know about human rights issues in Israel is that Blk Ethiopian Jews are treated poorly. In 2013 news outlets were reporting how Israel had had doctors giving exclusively Blk Jews shots to prevent them from conceiving. This isn't really discussed in these conversations about human rights abuses in Israel but I think a show like this one should definitely talk about that because not only is it hypocritical for Jews to be preventing Blk ppl from having children but it has never been called out as a type of genocidal act. There is a lot of consternation around calling Jewish ppl out for being very hypocritical when it comes to human rights.
Thank you so much to you and your sister for sharing this information. I honestly was so confused about this matter. What I’m not confused about is the murder that is taking place. It hurts my heart
Settler colonialism occurs when colonizers invade and occupy territory to permanently replace the existing society with the society of the colonizers. Settler colonialism is a form of exogenous domination typically organized or supported by an imperial authority. Settler colonialism contrasts with exploitation colonialism, which entails an economic policy of conquering territory to exploit its population as cheap or free labor and its natural resources as raw material. In this way, settler colonialism lasts indefinitely, except in the rare event of complete evacuation or settler decolonization. Writing in the 1990s, Patrick Wolfe theorized settler colonialism as a structure (rather than an event) premised on the elimination rather than exploitation of the native population, thus distinguishing it from classical colonialism. Wolfe also argued that settler colonialism was centered on the control of land and that it continued after the closing of the frontier. His approach was defining for the field, but has been challenged by other scholars on the basis that many situations involve a combination of elimination and exploitation. Settler colonial studies has often focused on former British colonies in North America, Australia and New Zealand, which are close to the complete, prototypical form of settler colonialism, but is also applied to many other conflicts throughout the world. Source Wiki
Thank you for sharing. And telling us the truth about your grandparents experience of the actual evil practices and experiences Under the current occupation of your grandparents homeland.
