This is Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

As we continue with part two with our conversation with Muhammad al-Kurd, Palestinian journalist

whose new book is out today, it's titled Perfect Victims and the Politics of Appeal.

He's an editor at large at Mando Weiss and the first Palestine correspondent at The Nation magazine.

I want to ask you about the poet, beloved academic activist Rafat Alarir, who has finally been laid to rest more than a year after he was

killed in an Israeli airstrike, along with his brother, his sister, and his four nephews. His family

recovered their remains after a neighbor buried them in a yard at the site of the Israeli attack.

Rafat was buried in a cemetery in Gaza City, Shijayah, a neighborhood where Rafat was born.

He appeared on democracy now several times.

Hope we have is in the growing popular support in in America, in the movements of the

movements, the human rights and the rights movements in in America and across Europe to

take to the streets to pressure their politicians into putting an end to this dark, dark episode of not only the history

of the Middle East, but also the history of humanity.

If people are asking, how was the Holocaust allowed and other genocides in Africa and

across the world, now you can see this

live on TV, live on social media. Palestinians whole blocks destroyed hospitals, schools,

businesses. We are speaking about thousands and thousands of housing units destroyed by Israel.

So my message to the free people of the world is to move to pressure, to mobilize, and to

take to the streets.

Those were the words of Rafaat Alarir on Democracy Now, October 10th, 2023.

He was killed two months later.

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