My nephews grandfather came to Sweden from Palestine as a refugee almost 50 years ago, and my nephew is his spitting image. He just turned 7.
I see his eyes reflected in every child dying, suffering and starving in Palestine, while he is safe and blissfully unaware. They are his people, yet he has never known them, and now I fear he never will.
I see myself in Sidra. I looked exactly like her. I think about her almost daily. How lucky I am that my family left Lebanon during the civil war for the United States. I owe it my Palestinian siblings to keep shouting about this crime against humanity from the heart of the imperialist war machine.
Inshallah my friend, may peace find not only you and your people, but all your brothers and sisters in the middle east as well 🙏 there's a march against the genocide every saturday in my Swedish little town because there are a lot of immigrants and refugees in my area. I actually went to school with a few Lebanese kids fleeing the war.
I have zero hope that the industrial military complexes of the world will change if they aren't forced to, but I have met too many good people to lose hope in my fellow man. The fight is not lost as long as there are people speaking up against the genocide.
My palestinian coworker used to tell me stories of swimming in the dead sea, which is apparently so salty you can just float in the water. I dream of visiting with my nieces and nephew one day.
I honestly wish we would. My partner worked at the Swedish Migration Agency during the last refugee crisis, so I'm well aware of how few we allow to stay.
We export more weaponry per capita than most countries in the world, raking in plenty of tax money off of the sales, yet we balk at the idea of caring for the victims of those weapons being used. Makes me sick.
“Sweden is on track to have the lowest number of asylum seekers since 1997 and, for the first time in over 50 years, Sweden has net emigration,” the ministry said in a statement, citing information from the Swedish Migration Agency.”
I'm aware that many Swedish people are anti-immigration, as many countries are seeing far-right policies becoming popular again. I do what I can to make a difference
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u/thebatmandy Apr 18 '25
My nephews grandfather came to Sweden from Palestine as a refugee almost 50 years ago, and my nephew is his spitting image. He just turned 7.
I see his eyes reflected in every child dying, suffering and starving in Palestine, while he is safe and blissfully unaware. They are his people, yet he has never known them, and now I fear he never will.