Over the past year, I’ve made no secret about my support for Palestinian freedom and against Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not to mention the apartheid regime, in general.
Today’s One Great Thing is a dispassionate, well researched, and thoughtful account of the history of this conflict, written by my friend Faris, called Israel/Palestine: The origin story.
If you have a few minutes to spare, you will be richly rewarded by reading Faris’ article, which he calls “A detached exploration of the conflict’s genesis from 1880-1948”. It’s a remarkably cogent summary of the formative events leading to the nightmare now livestreamed daily from Gaza and the West Bank.