{"id":143417,"date":"2019-09-23T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T11:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=143417"},"modified":"2024-09-23T14:42:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-23T13:42:04","slug":"shame-on-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/09\/shame-on-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Shame on Us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shame on us<br \/>\nfor silence on Palestine, Kashmir, Amazon, Bahamas, detention centers in US and much more<br \/>\nfor letting our neighbor\u2019s homes be demolished<br \/>\nfor allowing fascist politicians to take over our countries<br \/>\nfor merely paying lip service to our martyrs after they are killed<br \/>\nfor saying prayers and then forgetting what they died for<br \/>\nShame on us<br \/>\nfor blaming the colonization for more than it is responsible for<br \/>\nfor our own actions and lack of actions<br \/>\nfor silence on the murder of Israa Gharib by her own family<br \/>\n..and many more beautiful girls for supposed \u201chonor\u201d<br \/>\n\u2026 no honor in brutal murder or in excusing it<br \/>\nShame on us<br \/>\nfor patriarchy and tribalism<br \/>\nfor tossing trash into our streets<br \/>\nfor not composting<br \/>\nfor buying Israeli products while speaking of resistance<br \/>\nfor tolerating corrupt leaders<br \/>\nfor shaking hands with corrupt officials<br \/>\nfor silence and for cajoling powers<br \/>\nShame on us<br \/>\nfor our self-imposed weakness and for lack of organizing<br \/>\nfor not respecting law and order<br \/>\nfor inactions and for apathy in the face of oppression<br \/>\nfor believing in might instead of right<br \/>\nfor letting down Basel Al-Araj, Bassam Aburahma<br \/>\n\u2026 and thousands more<br \/>\nShame on us<br \/>\nfor allowing Netanyahu to visit occupied Hebron<br \/>\n\u2026 leaving only a few young people challenging him<br \/>\nfor letting self-appointed \u201cleaders\u201d attack Issa Amro and youth against settlements<br \/>\nfor superstition and belief in a god who would save us<br \/>\nShame on us<br \/>\nfor \u201csecurity coordination\u201d<br \/>\nand for following orders<br \/>\nfor accepting to be paid blood money to help the occupiers<br \/>\nfor allowing a few bad apples spoil much of the population<br \/>\nfor feeling helpless<br \/>\nand internalizing repression (mental colonization)<br \/>\nShame on us<br \/>\nfor lack of reading<br \/>\nfor losing dignity<br \/>\nfor ignoring<br \/>\n\u2026our power to change<br \/>\n\u2026our own history<br \/>\n\u2026.our rich canaanitic culture<br \/>\n\u2026..our young minds<br \/>\n\u2026 suffering for so many people<br \/>\nFellow human beings<br \/>\n\u2026and the suffering of our planet<br \/>\nHome to fellow living things<br \/>\nShame on us<br \/>\nfor forgetting that Palestine was and is the country of beauty<br \/>\n\u2026Of the Fertile Crescent<br \/>\n\u2026Of the cradle of civilization<br \/>\n\u2026Of successful resistance*<br \/>\n\u2026Of miracles of rebirth<br \/>\nFor forgetting that this planet earth is our only home<br \/>\n\u2026home of good and bad<br \/>\n\u2026home of Einstein and Ben Gurion<br \/>\n\u2026Ibn Sina and Ibn Saud<br \/>\n\u2026home of death and rebirth<br \/>\n\u2026home our only home<\/p>\n<p><em>____________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mazin-Qumsiyeh.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-67527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Mazin-Qumsiyeh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"112\" \/><\/a><\/em><em>Mazin Qumsiyeh, associate professor of genetics and director of cytogenetic services at Yale University School of Medicine, is founder and president of the Holy Land Conservation Foundation and ex-president of the Middle East Genetics Association. He won the Raymond Jallow Activism Award from the national Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee in 1998. He is co-founder and national treasurer of Al-Awda, the Palestine Right to Return Coalition, and has written extensively about the Middle East. Qumsiyeh is a member of the<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/\" >TRANSCEND Network for Peace Development Environment<\/a><em>, author of <\/em>Sharing the Land of Canaan<em> and <\/em>Popular Resistance in Palestine,<em> a professor at Bethlehem University and director of the Palestine Museum of Natural History in Bethlehem.<\/em> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/palestinenature.org\" >http:\/\/palestinenature.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/popular-resistance.blogspot.com\/2019\/09\/shame-on-us.html\" >Go to Original \u2013 popular-resistance.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/em><em>campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE<\/strong><strong> STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shame on us<br \/>\nfor silence on Palestine, Kashmir, Amazon, Bahamas, detention centers in US and much more<br \/>\nfor letting our neighbor\u2019s homes be demolished<br \/>\nfor allowing fascist politicians to take over our countries&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":67527,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[772,120,1030,87,267,1029,260,487,866,504,88,263,234,767,291,771,444,86,1027,427,85,868,109,287,103,107,985,572,292,126,1026,118,172,1025,75,886],"class_list":["post-143417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-poetry-format","tag-apartheid","tag-conflict","tag-fatah","tag-gaza","tag-geopolitics","tag-hamas","tag-history","tag-human-rights","tag-indigenous-rights","tag-international-relations","tag-israel","tag-matw","tag-media","tag-middle-east","tag-military","tag-nakba","tag-nonviolence","tag-occupation","tag-oslo-accords","tag-palestine","tag-palestine-israel","tag-poetry","tag-politics","tag-power","tag-racism","tag-religion","tag-social-justice","tag-torture","tag-un","tag-violence","tag-wall","tag-war","tag-west","tag-west-bank","tag-world","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":275200,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143417\/revisions\/275200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}