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'Stop calling people anti-Semitic for standing with Palestine! Mind you, there is nothing wrong with Jewish self-determination. What is completely wrong is the ethnic cleansing and dispossession of the Palestinian people.'
Hi, my name is Yasmin. I am a student-pharmacist in the Philippines. During my four years of living here, I have received comments from fellow Filipinos who are curious about where I come from, seeing my big nose and almond-shaped eyes. They would proceed to assume, “From Israel?” and I would say, “.” However, it has reached the point where I do not want to prolong conversations, so for strangers, I would just say, “I regret denying my roots. I regret failing to tell Filipinos who I am.
Also, stop calling people anti-Semitic for standing with Palestine! Mind you, there is nothing wrong with Jewish self-determination. What is completely wrong is the ethnic cleansing and dispossession of the Palestinian people for the past 75+ years just so these Zionists, who came from all over the world, can establish a homeland. We do not hate Jews; we hate Zionism. There is a huge difference.
Fifty percent of the population in Gaza are children. One cannot imagine the pain they experience. Children witness the killings of their sisters, brothers, parents, and they are the only victim left alive. There are records of Palestinian children committing suicide because of this. At this point of reading my post, you may wonder, why is this information not being reported in news outlets? Here’s why: mainstream media coverage favors Israel; the five major US newspapers show negativity only for Palestinian stories. There are studies that cover media bias favoring Israeli narratives. Palestinians are highly underrepresented.
Mainstream media continues its 75+ years of misreporting what actually happens to Palestinians. We are not seen as humans anymore because of this. The Israeli narrative has harmful and grave effects; this can be seen in the recent killing of 6-year-old Wades Al-Fayoume in the US, because he was Muslim and Palestinian-American.
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