What is worth fighting for?

What inspires some to fight for the freedom of others?

What are the circumstances that lead to resistance?

What beliefs and ideas inspire people to wage resistance? What methods and strategies are used in resistance efforts and movements?

How have liberation movements across time, place, and culture intersected and show solidarity?

Where did you get your information? What are your sources?

Are they credible?

What does it mean to conflate or equate decisions made by governments (or the leaders) of nations with entire groups of people? Or, conversely, what does it mean to be able to separate a government's decisions from the people/groups of people living in that nation?

What are examples of how people living in nations disagree and resist the policies of their government?

Is it anti-Semitic to protest Israeli actions against Palestinians? What does it mean to be anti-Semitic? What does it mean to be anti-Zionist?

This process is usually driven by a set of beliefs or myths that can have religious origins and usually based in white supremacist thinking.

Connect the settler-colonial myth that the land of Palestine was free to be taken to Manifest Destiny in the U.S.

Use of religion to justify colonialism and violence

Rashid Khalidi summarizes in his essential book, The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, “the modern history of Palestine can best be understood in these terms: as a colonial war waged against the indigenous population, by a variety of parties, to force them to relinquish their homeland to another people against their will.”

Examples include the devaluing, silencing, or annihilating of Indigenous wisdom and culture in the U.S., the creation of the slave trade and dehumanization of the enslaved, and the destruction of Palestinian schools, universities, libraries...

Is/How is this related to the policies in the US such as book bans or policies in Israel, such as the one that bans the use of the word Nakba in curriculum?

How have people resisted the denial or erasure of their ways of knowing? In Palestine, witnessing "is refusing to be silenced and standing in solidarity with the targets of the grand inquisitors of knowledge who strive strenuously to smear, subjugate, and muzzle knowledges that expose and challenge Zionist myths and crimes." Palestine has always been forced to seek “permission to narrate” (Said) against multiple denialisms: existence, Nakba, genocide, occupation.