i wish you knew 🇵🇸

a call to action for the Palestinian people of Gaza

I wish you knew how magnificent Gaza is—that you learned about it through its people and their spirit—instead of in its darkest hour, through the lens of genocide, annihilation, erasure, and murder.

I wish you knew my friend Mahmood, a gentle giant who is comically afraid of cats. When I visited Gaza earlier this year, Mahmood had just gotten engaged and…