I think the question of resistance is so important.

But to reduce the Palestinian national and liberation struggle to just armed resistance,

it's lazy because it's saying we want these young guys who live their lives in tunnels,

you know, with little food, who fight with makeshift weapons and with home training,

we expect them to liberate our land while we observe and cheer them on and like, you know,

editorialize their aesthetics of militancy.

The armed struggle is just one part of a larger ecosystem of, I mean, it's a very important, very

significant part of a larger ecosystem of resistance. There's a genocide in Palestine right now,

but here for us in the West, we are at war, and every single one of us has a role to play.

Hello, everybody and welcome to another episode of the Maghasi Street podcast.

We're very happy to be joined today by Mohammed al-Kurd, the poet, writer, and journalist

and organizer from Jerusalem, from Occupied Jerusalem.

Muhammad holds an MFA in creative writing from Brooklyn College, part of the CUNY system, City University of New York.

He emerging global recognition as a co-founder of the Save Sheikh Jarrah movement in 2021,

during a moment when the occupying power in Jerusalem attempted to increase its pressure on Palestinian families living in that

part of Jerusalem. And we'll talk about that in more detail in a few minutes. His first collection

of poetry, Rivka, was published by Haymarket in 2021. And he's also the first Palestine correspondent

for the Nation magazine. His new book,

I think you can see here, Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal is just out. It's also out

from Haymarket. We'll be talking about the book and about Hamad's background and life growing up,

and the story, of course, of Sheikh Sharra, which is, as I said,

what brought him to prominence. And hopefully we'll get an update on what's happening there in the,

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