Children of Gaza
For nearly two decades, these children in Gaza have grown up under a regime of siege, organized humiliation, intermittent bombings, constant surveillance, relentless mourning, and now they are being massacred by the thousands.
They are highly educated, but in the deepest sense of what it means to pass something on. They already understand, and they will understand even more tomorrow. Just like their parents before them. Just like their dispossessed grandparents before them. What “Palestinian Cause” produces, generation after generation, is not a broken population but an unbroken chain of political intelligences rooted in the direct experience of colonialism, exile, and apartheid.
And that is what makes them “dangerous” in the eyes of colonial powers: they are not children to be saved, they are political subjects in formation. They are educated also in the sense of what it means to pass on memory, a worldview, and resistance. This is what the complicit West fears. That these children grow into adults without ever unlearning what they have seen, heard, what has been done to them, and what they have understood. That they continue to think, to speak out, and to demand rights.
These children grow up already knowing that the dominant narrative will count their dead without names, that their voices will be disqualified. And despite this, they learn to name, to respond, to rebuild a collective dignity where the global order offers them only erasure.