At a town hall on “The Future of Palestinian Identity”, Palestinian Arab comedienne and Israel-hater Maysoon Zayid emphasized to the students in the audience the importance to their cause of making sh*t up:
She has apparently been preaching this for quite a while now:
One of the biggest mistakes #Palestinians made was using English words that don’t mean shit. occupation is a job not genocide. settlement is a lawsuit win-what a settlement actually is when we talk about Israeli settlement is #supremacist enclaves
— Maysoon (@maysoonzayid) April 15, 2021
#Palestinians we have a communication problem. occupation apartheid these words are inaccessible. why don’t we just call it what it is religious supremacy if you are born one faith you have all the rights if you’re born any other faith you have less rights or no rights. #Equality
— Maysoon (@maysoonzayid) February 22, 2021
Yup, she sure loves to embellish.
I had gotten used to being strip-searched at the airport, but when I was eight I was subjected to far worse. They beheaded my bunny, Checkers. It was not self-defense. It was murder. Checkers was a blue and white stuffed bunny with a beating heart that traveled with me. The Israelis could have easily x-rayed Checkers to see what was inside of him, but instead they decapitated him and pulled out his heart. Then they handed him back in pieces. I will never forget dropping his head as I struggled to keep all his parts together. My grandmother, in an effort to console me, reattached Checker’s head. Unfortunately, the cross-stitching queen of Deir Debwan had only red thread. The result was horrifying. That would be the first of many memorable run-ins.
By the way, I do not use the words “occupation” or “settlement” either. I guess we have that in common!
Hat tip: Michal