Sunday begins and I find myself still not thinking about anything other than the world situation……our election is a joke…….so let’s talk boycotts…….

It is no secret I am a supporter of the BDS Movement against the state of Israel……and because of that support I am fan of noted activist Edward Said…..

September 25, 2016 marked the thirteenth anniversary of the passing of Professor Edward Said, one of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century, and a political icon for anyone invested in the Question of Palestine.  And as happens with many historical icons, Said’s legacy is causing a tug-of-war between “liberal Zionists” on the one hand, and the thousands of anti-Zionist critics and BDS activists his radical scholarship and political engagement have spawned.

For decades, while still among us, Said was smeared as a “professor of terror,” including by the right-wing Commentary magazine, which also accused him of leading  a “double career as literary scholar and ideologue of terrorism.”    In 2000, he was vilified as embracing violence when he threw a rock towards Israel from a village in southern Lebanon, newly-liberated from twenty-two years of Israeli occupation.  Throughout his career, there were concerted efforts to discredit his scholarship, and even deny his Palestinian identity.  The latter is an offense millions of Diaspora Palestinians are subjected of:  even as the Palestinian refugee status is the only such status globally to be passed down from one generation to another, those of us born outside of the historic homeland, but without the UN-issued “refugee status” documentation, are denied our Palestinian identity, as Zionists seek to erase our right of return, and deny that hundreds of thousands of us were displaced during the Nakba.  (The pro-Israel organization StandWithUs, for example, has declared me Iraqi, a “fake Palestinian,” because I was indeed born in Bagdad, but to Palestinian parents, both from the old city of Jerusalem.)  Said, his detractors claimed, was Egyptian, because he grew up in Cairo.

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