[[{"content_id":"391815","domain_id":"0","lang_id":"en","portal_id":"2","owner_id":"114","user_id":"60","view_accesslevel_id":"0","edit_accesslevel_id":"0","delete_accesslevel_id":"0","editor_id":"60","content_title":"Palestinian academic in interview with Qodsna:\r\n\r\nUS, Israeli colonizers use tactics to dehumanize their victims","content_number":"","content_date_event":"2024-07-20 09:33:42","content_summary":"Mazin Qumsiyeh told Qodsna that the United States and the Zionist regime are trying to dehumanize the Palestinian nation, when the US imperial system is on the verge of collapse.","content_summary_fill":"1","content_body":"Tehran, Qodsna - Mazin Qumsiyeh, Palestinian scientist and author, said in interview with the Qods News Agency that colonial powers (the US and the Zionist regime) resort to harsh tactics of dehumanization of the Palestinian people amid the last days of the implosion of the US empire.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nAsked about the methods of the United States and the Zionist regime to stand against the freedom-seeking nation of Palestine, the pundit said:\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n“The ‘Israeli’ Knesset voted to deny any possibility of a Palestinian state in Palestine. I read polls indicating most Israelis support the ongoing genocide of our people. I heard Donald Trump (former President of the ‘USA’) stoke colonial language and defend racist ancestors (who he called “our great ancestors”). The remaining indigenous people of that country, blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and people of conscience all felt the horror of colonial racism that Trump epitomizes. Genocide Joe Biden does not provide an alternative. The Green party does.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nBut in any case, as the US Empire implodes, I am thinking of how such colonial powers (US and Israel) dehumanize their victims and get crueler in their last days. The biggest current victims of the empire's dehumanization are of course us, the Palestinian people.  It is abundantly clear that oppressors spend an inordinate amount of time and resources to dehumanize their victims. But we humans spend an inordinate amount of time also trying to suppress our own humanity. To dehumanize someone is to deprive them of essential human qualities such as compassion, individuality, love, and social contact.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nMaking a family line up in the sun for hours to cross a checkpoint is a form of dehumanizing. It is dehumanizing to deny food, water, and medical care, to destroy means of livelihood, to take someone's land, to torture prisoners, deprive them of food, and countless other brutal actions that constitute genocide. Ecoside (destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action) and scholasticide (systematic destruction of Palestinian education by Israel) are also part of this and it is happening. Dehumanizing makes it easier for the colonizers not to feel compassion for their victims as they rob them of their lands and natural resources.\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\nIn so doing the colonizers thus also dehumanize themselves because they have to desensitize themselves to human suffering. But the victims themselves can also internalize the dehumanization to think of themselves as somehow unworthy or that their life can only gain meaning if they emulate their oppressors and thus become oppressors themselves. This spiral of dehumanizing can and must be challenged and the obvious way to do it is via our efforts to humanize ourselves and others: show compassion, mercy, love, and connectedness. The struggle is mostly inward and it is our own negativism that must be challenged every day, nay every hour. That is the humanizing struggle that is the hardest struggle of all.”\r\n\r\n \r\n\r\n ","content_html":"

Tehran, Qodsna - Mazin Qumsiyeh, Palestinian scientist and author, said in interview with the Qods News Agency that colonial powers (the US and the Zionist regime) resort to harsh tactics of dehumanization of the Palestinian people amid the last days of the implosion of the US empire.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Asked about the methods of the United States and the Zionist regime to stand against the freedom-seeking nation of Palestine, the pundit said:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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“The ‘Israeli’ Knesset voted to deny any possibility of a Palestinian state in Palestine. I read polls indicating most Israelis support the ongoing genocide of our people. I heard Donald Trump (former President of the ‘USA’) stoke colonial language and defend racist ancestors (who he called “our great ancestors”). The remaining indigenous people of that country, blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and people of conscience all felt the horror of colonial racism that Trump epitomizes. Genocide Joe Biden does not provide an alternative. The Green party does.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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But in any case, as the US Empire implodes, I am thinking of how such colonial powers (US and Israel) dehumanize their victims and get crueler in their last days. The biggest current victims of the empire's dehumanization are of course us, the Palestinian people.  It is abundantly clear that oppressors spend an inordinate amount of time and resources to dehumanize their victims. But we humans spend an inordinate amount of time also trying to suppress our own humanity. To dehumanize someone is to deprive them of essential human qualities such as compassion, individuality, love, and social contact.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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Making a family line up in the sun for hours to cross a checkpoint is a form of dehumanizing. It is dehumanizing to deny food, water, and medical care, to destroy means of livelihood, to take someone's land, to torture prisoners, deprive them of food, and countless other brutal actions that constitute genocide. Ecoside (destruction of the natural environment by deliberate or negligent human action) and scholasticide (systematic destruction of Palestinian education by Israel) are also part of this and it is happening. Dehumanizing makes it easier for the colonizers not to feel compassion for their victims as they rob them of their lands and natural resources.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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In so doing the colonizers thus also dehumanize themselves because they have to desensitize themselves to human suffering. But the victims themselves can also internalize the dehumanization to think of themselves as somehow unworthy or that their life can only gain meaning if they emulate their oppressors and thus become oppressors themselves. This spiral of dehumanizing can and must be challenged and the obvious way to do it is via our efforts to humanize ourselves and others: show compassion, mercy, love, and connectedness. The struggle is mostly inward and it is our own negativism that must be challenged every day, nay every hour. That is the humanizing struggle that is the hardest struggle of all.”<\/p>\r\n\r\n

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