The US-based community has been grappling with profound grief, systemic discrimination and a sense of helplessness, all while advocating for justice and freedom for their loved ones.
A woman holds a Palestinian flag during a demonstration to express solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, in New York City, New York, October 26, 2023. / Photo: Reuters
This has brought forth a level of grief and a sense of abandonment that is difficult to express and navigate. Living as a Palestinian in the diaspora has always been a challenging and unique space to be in. It has been a wakeup call to our community that many people we once considered friends and acquaintances have the privilege to choose to ignore the ongoing genocidal war and believe in the dehumanisation of the Palestinian people.
The PACC itself became a regular target of hateful phone calls and harassing messages. We were forced not only to try to process the reality of our friends and families suffering back home, but also to manage our own safety while actively being targeted here. It often goes unaddressed because we struggle to come to terms with our own American privilege knowing that we have all our basic needs met while our our loved ones back home in Palestine are undergoing occupation and genocidal war.A woman in comforted outside Nasser hospital in Khan Younis following Israeli bombardment, in southern Gaza on August 7, 2024 .
Meanwhile, we watch the media and our elected officials gaslight us and conflate anti-Semitism with our right to be able to advocate for ourselves against Zionism. There is no lesser of two evils and we see both parties continue to make it harder for citizens in the United States to have our basic needs met.The Palestinian American community cannot begin to process the grief of the lives lost in Gaza and across Palestine because the death count does not stop rising.
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