Shakespeare in Gaza
Refaat Alareer standing before a room of students, his voice steady. And then he asked us:
What is the value of resistance if no one tells your story?
We are Hamlet’s last breath.
We are Dr. Refaat’s last poem.
#Refaat
Translations of ‘If I Must Die’ Into 40+ Languages
@GRA3432
It was #Refaat #Alareer's birthday yesterday.
https://sivemusic.bandcamp.com/track/if-i-must-die
Refaat would have been 45 today. As Asem said - since he can't speak, we must.
Memorize a short poem to hold him in your heart and mind forever. He'd have liked that. Or maybe a few lines from Shakespeare - he'd have LOVED that, sweet teacher that he was, always trying to get everyone to learn.
My quote for him is from Robert Frost, about losing a friend to war:
1/2
#palestine #solidarity #refaat
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/09/kites-and-candles-remembering-refaat-alareer-on-his-birthday/
The unpublished genocide diaries of Refaat Alareer
#Refaat #RefaatAlareer #Palastine
#Genocide #Diaries
https://electronicintifada.net/content/unpublished-genocide-diaries-refaat-alareer/48436
MOSAB ABU TOHA: Well, first of all, #Refaat’s death is not a unique death. There are many other intelligent and wonderful and lovely people who were killed the same way. And by the way, many people don’t know this, but Refaat’s body is still under the rubble of the house that was bombed. So, I want everyone to imagine that your brother, that your father, that your neighbor was not only killed, but his body is still under the rubble, and the body is starting to decay. I don’t know what remains of Refaat’s body. This really breaks my heart.
#Gaza #StopTargetedKillingAndDisapearingPoetsAndJournalistAndTheirFamilies
#CivilianCasualtiesViolateGeneva
#GenocideJoeKnows
#Refaat's very last post before he was martyred by the Arrogant:
"The Democratic Party and Biden are responsible for the Gaza genocide perpetrated by Israel."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/palestine-is-a-story-away-a-tribute-to-refaat-alareer
#StopTargetedKillingAndDisapearingPoetsAndJournalistAndTheirFamilies: Now #Refaat is a world away. He was assassinated on December 6 by the Israeli army. The only weapon in his #Gaza apartment was an EXPO marker. If the Israeli soldiers were to raid his house, he said, he would throw it at them, while crying, “We are helpless.”
#GenocideJoeKnows
$57 in my bank-account, behind on every bill& the taxes im forced 2 pay r funding a #genocide thats killed my buddy #Refaat + 20,000 of his fellow #Palestinians , but yeah ….. merry #christmas or what-ever
#gaza #gazagenocide #holidays #Palestine #freepalestine #fromtherivertothesea
Actor Brian Cox reading Palestinian poet Refaat al-Ar’eer’s “If I Must Die” viewed more than 11 million times - World Socialist Web Site
#TerroristNation
#ShireenAbuAklehMoment: Israel ordered Refaat Alareer’s assassination after derided Israeli claim of babies burned in an oven as hoax.
He was right, but died for it.
Refaat was a Palestinian poet and professor. He not only taught his students Palestinian poetry. He also taught them Hebrew poetry.
Unlike Israel’s educational system, which promotes a triumphalist ideological indoctrination
#Refaat #RefaatAlAreer
#PoetsExposeCrimesAgainstHumanityForever
#UNisCivilSociety
#EndTheOccupationNOW 🇵🇸
#StopBombingHospitals
#ComplicitWithGenocide
#MemoryAsResistance
#NormalizingApartheid
#USAShitShow
“Dr. Refaat did not die, he multiplied.”
Thousands mourn Professor Refaat al-Ar’eer at anti-genocide protests and online memorial - World Socialist Web Site
"New York City Subway today.
“If I must die, you must live, to tell my story.”
#Refaat is universal."
https://x.com/YousefAljamal/status/1733597373262139759?t=Dy0S25INjF3noIRim12_pA&s=09
Israel’s murder of Palestinian author Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer sparks global outrage - World Socialist Web Site
The targeted killing of Dr. al-Ar’eer, one of thousands of civilians murdered by the Israeli government with the full support of the United States in the last two months, is a heinous war crime that will never be forgotten by the international working class.
Teacher, author and activist Dr. Refaat al-Ar’eer murdered in Israeli airstrike - World Socialist Web Site
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