'when the objective of your oppressor is to get you to leave your land, staying put is part of the daily struggle. In this sense, every Palestinian living under the Israeli occupation is a nonviolent resister'
Considering it was written in 2011, before the great march of return was so comprehensively ignored, the insistence on nonviolent resistence and kneejerk condemnation of militant armed resistance from western commentators is all the more galling. 'Where is the Palestinian Gandhi?' they ask. F* off, they're all Gandhi, you just never bothered to notice.
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