{"id":286053,"date":"2025-01-27T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T12:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=286053"},"modified":"2025-01-23T06:05:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T06:05:01","slug":"black-poet-scholar-el-jones-reads-her-poetry-of-resisters-solidarity-at-the-ramallah-cultural-palace-west-bank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/01\/black-poet-scholar-el-jones-reads-her-poetry-of-resisters-solidarity-at-the-ramallah-cultural-palace-west-bank\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters\u2019 Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"
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El Jones<\/p><\/div>\n

For Palestinians, \u201chistory\u201d began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

21 Jan 2025 <\/em>– For a program-packed full-week after the New Year, Sabeel<\/a>, the Jerusalem-based Liberation Theology Centre run by a very capable team of Palestinian theologians and community activists, recently hosted us, members of an international delegation of scholars and activists from six different countries from N. America and Asia \u2013 S. Korea, Japan, Myanmar, UK, USA and Canada.<\/p>\n

Each of us in our own ways \u2013 as poets, activists, scholars \u2013 we have unequivocally supported the liberation struggle of Palestinian people, now in its 108th year, if we treat the year 1917 when British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour gave away a piece of land which was inhabited by native Palestinian people of different faiths and racial backgrounds, as the origin of the conflict in Palestine.<\/p>\n

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A section of the audience before the play, Ramallah Cultural Palace auditorium. Photo: Zarni<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Our arrival in Ramallah coincided with the community play produced by Sabeel and its community activists, at Ramallah Cultural Palace. The play was designed as a way for the Palestinians in their largest and administrative capital to process communally their 15-months-long experience of grieve, rage and helplessness to stop Israel\u2019s genocide against their fellow Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n