The Palestinian Revolution is Giving Young People Meaning

 

Alon Mizrahi *

Palestine is giving young people meaning the capitalist, corporate world order viciously denied them.

At the most precise moment in history when it seemed a completely mechanical, vertical, and isolated form of existence was about to bury humanity for good, this genocide sparked a long-forgotten truth: that we (the people) are creatures of community; that we only find true joy and meaning in connecting with other people.

That we cannot be happy when others around us suffer.

Palestine is an actual and concrete struggle but it is also, and crucially so, an instrument of philosophical liberation of universal importance. And these kids are holding on to it as a buoy, so as not to drown in an ocean of cold and meaningless rituals that have no resonance with the human soul: be born, learn, learn a craft, accumulate material things, obey the system, have a family die.

They don't want it. They looked into their screens, and while we thought they were vanishing and ceasing to be in them, it is there they found life, and what it really means.

They want Palestinians to stop being mass murdered, displaced, and dehumanized, but they want the same thing for themselves. They want to feel human, and they reject the system that tries so desperately to humiliate, denigrate, and dismantle them.

As propheseid, the revolution is not televised, as establishment media is an essential part of the oppressing mechanism. But rather than let it fool you, see this violent denial for what it is: proof of the magnitude and potential of this movement.

The Palestinian Revolution may yet prove to be more consequential than the French one.

 

* Alon Mizrahi is a published author in Israel, born "to a Jewish Palestinian father and a Jewish Moroccan mother). But fighting for an audience for my nonconformist message of peace, equality, and freedom was always extremely difficult. The post-October 7th Gaza genocide made it quite impossible. It has become the right time for me to use my access to the English language, which is not my mother tongue, and connect with audiences and people from anywhere."