Human beings are often taught to put themselves in the shoes of others to helpfully have a sense of what they are going through. In an era of global citizenship, it our responsibility to go beyond one's geography, colour and creed to support what is right and just around the world.
However, one issue that has undesirably not received enough global thoughtfulness and support is Palestine and how to free it from the unceasing grasp of Zionism apartheid and occupation. This remains the longest form of oppression and discrimination in modern history.
Right now, there is an intensification of the struggle following a brutal attempt by Israel to evict six Palestinian families from their established homes at Sheikh Jarrah area in East Jerusalem in favour of some incoming Jewish settlers.
One of the settlers by the name Yaqub was seen in a viral clip that went online qualifying his disinheritance to a Palestinian mother's home using a conceited mentality that if he does not take the home from her, then somebody else would come to do so.
Equally, hundreds of racist right-wing Jews with close political connection to the party of Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu caused fracas around the Al-Aqsa mosque, which is considered the third holiest site in Islam— after the two mosques in Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia— chanting slogans against Arabs.
Instead of intervening to calm down the situation and affirm the congregational prayer rights of Palestinian Muslims, the official instruments of oppressive violence have since been used to harm and obstruct the faithful from reaping from the last stretch of worship in Ramadhan, which is considered to be crucial and highly rewarding.
But the same way the problems of slavery and colonialism were only possible because the White man found willing collaborators to betray their own people and their collective good for money, power and other selfish favours, most of the Arab leaders have "sold" the Palestinian cause for some crumbs of aid and favours from the US and Israel. I don't need to mention names.
Little wonder that the former Israeli prime minister, the late Golda Meir said in 1969 that: "After burning the Al-Aqsa Mosque, I did not sleep the whole night. I was afraid the Arabs might enter Israel in groups from all directions. But, when the sun rose the following day, I realised we can do whatever we want because the Arabs are a sleeping nation."
We should stand with Palestinians, who are the Mau Mau of the yesteryears, as they struggle for their Independence and freedom from Zionism apartheid.
Mohamed is a sociopolitical commentator in Garissa county; [email protected]
