Kanafani was born on April 8, 1936 in Acre, Palestine. He lived with his family in Jaffa until they were forced to leave during the Nakba ("catastrophe") of 1948 and finally settled in Damascus. After living in a refugee camp, he later began working as a teacher in a refugee camp for the UNRWA to help support his family and continue his studies. His experience in the refugee camps is reflected in much of his works.
While studying Arabic literature at the University of Damascus he became interested in politics and met the then leader of the Arab Nationalist Movement (ANM) George Habash, with whom he began to work. After teaching several years in Kuwait, where he was diagnosed with acute diabetes, Kanafani moved to Beirut to work on al-Hurriyya ("Independence") magazine at the invitation of Habash.
In 1961 he married Danish professor Anni Hoover, who had come to Beirut to study the refugee situation and in 1962 he published his first major book, Men in the Sun *, immediately acclaimed throughout the Arab world. Both as a journalist and as a writer, Kanafani was very prolific in the 1960s when Palestinian resistance and armed struggle increased (the PLO was founded in 1965).
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) was founded in 1967 to replace the Movement of Arab Nationalists and Kanafani became director of al-Hadaf, the party's organ. With a clear Marxist orientation, the PFLP pledged to resist the occupation of Palestine and establish in Palestine a single state with a new secular society based on social justice. The period between 1970 and 1972 was rich in political and armed activity, and at that time Kanafani was a member of the PFLP politburo in addition to being its spokesperson.
The PFLP considered the fight against the Israeli occupation to be anti-colonial resistance. After the defeats of 1948 and, especially, 1967, the struggle in the cultural sphere was fundamental to recover a daily Palestinian national identity that was in danger due to dispersion and ethnic and cultural cleansing. It was the first step to recover his country.
He was assassinated along with his 17-year-old niece Lamees on July 8, 1972 in Beirut by a car bomb planned by Mossad and very possibly with the collusion of the Lebanese authorities.
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Lol IDF definitely fucked up bombing the building with press in it. AP said they've been there 15 years without indication of Hamas operating from there and are demanding that Israel provide evidence for the claim. Like how are you one of the states which has the privilege of the press acting as their stenographers, and decide to fuck with the press.
they're gonna get away with it just watch
AP will issue an apology like that dude Cheney shot
CTV, Canadian centrist TV news here just ran the story. A small amount of both-sidesing but seemed pretty obviously mad that Israel did this.
I found out the other day that it was also the first network to air Star Trek! Almost makes up for Corner Gas
Lol the best part is that since it's the AP the stories can't get spiked by a single editor as easily since any one of a few hundred organizations have the option to publish (unless I misunderstand their structure). Massive fuck up.
I remember when ContraPoints shamed those lefties who refused to vote for Biden.
Biden: I fully support Israeli genocidal intentions in Palestine. I will offer nothing but symbolic gestures to those who are going to get killed in the following years by the Israeli apartheid regime.
See why you shouldn't vote for war criminals now, :LIB: ?
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Anyone have any ideas why public opinion is shifting on Israel? They've been doing settler-colonialism for decades, how did they lose control of the narrative? I've never seen so much backlash from ordinary people, the conflict was always "too complicated"
I'm taking it as a sign that the US state department isn't what it used to be, as well as more middle eastern people with access to the internet fighting to have their story told. Harder to deny war crimes when everyone has a smart phone to record high quality footage of the act
It feels like the illusion shattered the other day, suddenly the conflict wasn't "too complicated" and it was just really obvious which side was doing war crimes
The internet and cellphone cameras*. It also doesn't help that most of the zionists in the media write in a way that literally no one but other PMCs could possibly care about. Bari Weiss' dogshit writing doesn't counter the image of a building being demolished.
I think it's because people are now actively seeking out information on Israel because of what's happening right now.
The average person probably didn't know what was happening simply because they didn't have the time and/or they never even thought of checking it out before, many people don't keep up with the news because of more pressing life stuff like school or work. But since now that the conflict that in the public eye, more and more people are seeking out information and learning about what's happening. And since Israel is so cartoonish evil, it doesn't take much for it to get backlash.
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Hot take: if the US really wants to defend Israel they should classify the AP as a terrorist organization. Imagine the liberal pearl clutch
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