Palestine: Occupation to Liberation
From Orientalism to organizing — the full arc of understanding and action.
Nothing comes out of the ether. The narrative of Palestine as "complicated" or "both sides" was built deliberately — and it can be deconstructed deliberately.
This reading journey takes you from Edward Said's foundational work on how the "Middle East" was constructed as a Western fantasy, through the lived reality of occupation, into humor as survival, abolitionist organizing frameworks, and finally to how we teach solidarity to the next generation.
Follow the full arc from seeing the mythology to raising the future.
SEE THROUGH IT
Orientalism
Edward Said
The West didn't study the East. It invented it.
✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST
FEEL THE FISSURE
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine
Rashid Khalidi
One hundred years of colonial war. The historian who names it.
✦ READ – REFLECT → RESIST
Raise the Future
Department of Childish Revolution
For the adults raising the future:
Teach the history they won't.
The children's section of your local bookstore wasn't built for revolution. So we're building our own. Picture books that celebrate organizers. Alphabet primers that teach solidarity. Chapter books where the good guys actually fight back.
Teach the history they won't.
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