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Mai Al-Nakib<\/h4>\n

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By now it is no doubt a platitude to claim the power of the pen over the sword. Even worse, in the context of 75 years of Israeli brutality against the Palestinian people, we might call it na\u00efve or even unethical. Since the 7th of October, 2023 in Gaza alone, we have witnessed Israel\u2019s criminal use of white phosphorous<\/a> against civilians; their dropping of explosives equal to the strength of two nuclear bombs; their murder of over 9,000+ Palestinian human beings and counting (many remain under rubble), with more than 3,600 of them children<\/a>; the targeting and murder of over thirty journalists and media workers, in addition to dozens of their family members. In the face of these and so many other unspeakable war crimes instigated by a seemingly incontestable power, the output of pens seems futile.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the rubble to which this region has been physically, psychically, economically, and socially reduced, the force of its cultural narratives are on the rise and gaining momentum.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yet, as the Israelis well understand, the sword has always been guided and buttressed by convenient and convincing narratives: Biblical and British colonial narratives; those of victimhood and persecution; of terra nullius (nobody\u2019s land); of democracy and freedom; of terrorism and Islamism; of exceptionality and superiority; of humanity against barbarity; and on and on, ad nauseam. For over 120 years, Zionist pens have produced reams contriving stories of justice, inevitability, and finality. Such manufactured narratives are convincing to those who have everything to gain by their legitimation. European nations during and after the two world wars \u2014 given their antisemitic impulse to rid themselves of the Jewish problem once and for all and to obscure their shameful complicity with the German Holocaust of six million Jews \u2014 assuaged their false narrative of guilt with a skewed narrative of justice. (Lest I be accused of antisemitism, please note that my argument is against Zionist narratives and not Jewish ones, for which I hold nothing but respect and admiration). Once the imperialist baton was passed from Europe to the United States in the middle of the last century, Zionist narratives dovetailed seamlessly with the fantastical American narratives of exceptionalism, democracy, and triumphalism, in the names of which the Middle East has been \u2014 and continues to be \u2014 ripped to shreds.<\/span><\/p>\n

Despite the rubble to which this region has been physically, psychically, economically, and socially reduced, the force of its cultural narratives are on the rise and gaining momentum. The pens of novelists, poets, filmmakers, musicians, social media activists, journalists, and academics are producing reams of their own: singular, fascinating stories of lamentation and celebration; horrors and marvels; violence and survival; attack and intransigent resistance; and so much else besides. More than ever before, these narratives are travelling beyond the region \u2014 sometimes because their authors have migrated as a result of the ruination of their countries; other times as a result of more accessible translations; and primarily because of the use of social media by today\u2019s savvy youth, who have in their hands \u2014 for the first time \u2014 the tools with which to challenge the orientalist narrative that strangled their parents, grandparents, and generations before them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Never has the power of this 21st-century pen been more evident than in the intolerable context of the decimation of Gaza by its Zionist occupiers. Voices from inside Gaza \u2014 those of children, journalists, social media activists, doctors, priests, and many others \u2014 are reaching the West despite the hostility of its leaders; the biased mainstream media conglomerates; and the shadowbanning and direct censorship by social media companies. Gazan voices are affecting members of an ideologically interpellated populace, raised on the Zionist narratives listed earlier, coupled with anti-Arab, anti-Islamic sentiments. Palestinians, Arabs, Muslims, Jews, and allies in the West and across the globe are amplifying these voices from Gaza, speaking truth to power despite threats to livelihoods, reputations, and lives \u2014 as the tragic murder of six-year-old Wadea Al-Fayoume lays bare. We are witnessing the ideological landscape shift before our eyes. There is no question that the devastating onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank \u2014 their outright genocide by a power that acts with impunity and without censure by Western leaders \u2014 must be at the forefront of activist efforts and political decisions. Yet crucially, these demands by the \u201cweak\u201d against the \u201cstrong\u201d have only become possible thanks to the tireless efforts of Palestine\u2019s pen.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a 1993 conversation with David Barsamian titled \u201cThe Pen and the Sword,\u201d Edward W. Said lamented the fact that the Arab and Islamic world had not done enough to represent contrasting versions to the stereotypes disseminated in the West (90). He went on to add, \u201cI\u2019m an optimist. I think people can be made to change their minds and that experiencing a different and alternative view of the Islamic and Arab world can in fact open people\u2019s minds in the West to another perspective\u201d (91-92). That is precisely what seems to be unfolding despite the increasingly desperate efforts of the Israelis to hold on to and control their narrative \u2014 a desperation that smacks of failure, a sure sign that their narrative jig is almost up. In its place emerge Palestinian narratives of dignity in the face of ruthless bombardment; of the tender love for family, friends, neighbors, children, and cats; of the selfless humanitarianism of doctors, journalists, and young social media activists, many of them students who should be studying and living out their dreams instead of trying to convince indifferent Europeans and Americans that they and their people are human beings who deserve to live just like everyone else.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Israel targets Palestinian journalists in Gaza, as they have done for decades and are intensifying now, it is fighting against the steady displacement of Zionist narratives by Palestinian ones. Israel has always understood the power of Palestine\u2019s pen to expose injustice. By assassinating journalists today, Israel remains true to a modus operandi that dates back to the establishment of Palestine\u2019s liberation movements. Writer, intellectual, and activist Ghassan Kanafani and cartoonist and journalist Nagi Al-Ali were its early victims \u2014 their pens and hearts stopped by Israeli bombs and bullets. Yet Kanafani\u2019s voice, Al-Ali\u2019s voice, the poet Kamal Nasser\u2019s voice, along with the voices of all murdered Palestinian scientists, scholars, journalists, and politicians, have carried through the decades, the output of their pens continuing to inspire Palestinian resolve.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo every situation,\u201d Said reminds us, \u201cthere\u2019s always an alternative. What one must train oneself is to think the alternative, and not to think the accepted and the status quo or to believe that the present is frozen\u201d (105). In these darkest of times, Said\u2019s injunction may seem impossible, and yet the writing coming out of Palestine today demonstrates that the alternative has already arrived, at the very least, in narrative form. Palestine\u2019s pen has done more than its fair share of imagining and offering alternatives. Now the responsibility falls upon every human being with a conscience and an ounce of humanity to demand immediately and unequivocally the physical survival of the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, and to insist upon the right of Palestinians in diaspora to return to their homeland. <\/span><\/p>\n

The era of unjust swords must end.<\/span><\/p>\n

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