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For decades, Israel has not sought coexistence. It demands the unconditional surrender of the Palestinian people.

This is not a “conflict.” It is a colonial project, a continuous enterprise of dispossession. Once again, Palestinians are faced with a brutal choice: die or be erased. Ethnic cleansing or annihilation. That is the real framework. The Nakba never ended. It wasn’t a closed event in 1948. It is an ongoing process, a structure, a state strategy.

Speaking of the Nakba in the past tense is an ideological operation. It suggests that colonialism came to an end, when in fact it continues every day in Gaza, in the West Bank, in Jerusalem, in the camps, in the diaspora, in the archives, in the bodies. What the Israeli state wants is the total erasure of Palestinian presence. The eradication of their right to land, to memory, to self-determination.

And meanwhile, the world watches. The West funds, arms, justifies, covers. Israel does not act alone. It is a strategic node of global imperialism. Gaza has become a laboratory for control, for collective punishment, for asymmetric warfare. This is not a “humanitarian crisis.” It is a methodical project of destruction.

And I refuse to talk about it in moderate terms. I refuse to mourn Palestinians only if they are “civilians,” “innocent,” “nonviolent.” I reject the humanitarian framing that depoliticizes. This is not a tragedy. It is a colonial war. And resistance, in whatever form it takes, is not a crime. It is the fundamental right of all peoples under oppression.

To be in solidarity is not to sign lukewarm petitions or call for a ceasefire without naming colonialism. It is to strike at the roots. It is to reject neutrality. It is to support the Palestinian liberation struggle in all its radicality, in all its complexity, even when it makes us uncomfortable.