Do Palestinians have a right to the watering place?
Category: Fadwa Wazwaz
Why do we heal?
It’s important to acknowledge that everyone is harmed in different ways. The clearest harm comes to those who are marginalized, Othered, and who are the invisible classes of our world. But all of us are harmed in this system.
When you harm others, you have not only done an injustice to those you’ve harmed, but also an injustice to yourself.
Security is a human right for all
With false security, an individual or community insists on its own security but doesn’t have any concern for the security of others—nor in how one’s sense of security was gained.
Beyond shame, violence, and terror
Oppressors—who are often themselves suffering from unacknowledged shame—don’t fight us just physically, but also psychologically.
Guilt, remorse, and getting beyond the self-help placebo
We were roped by a feeling of guilt and shame, and a burden to prove that we were not guilty. But in this case, there is nothing we can do to prove we’re not guilty. Still, the president’s executive order evokes September 11 when suddenly revoking permanent residents’ access to their homes, jobs, and lives.