For much of the world, Palestine is the “line in the sand” to our staggering hypocrisy. We own this genocide. It defines us. It is us. 

November 2024, election month, marks one hundred and seven years since Britain issued the Balfour Declaration and seventy-seven years since the United States pushed through UNGA Resolution 181 (Partition). In both cases, it was well understood that the documents’ words were empty, and that we were institutionalizing the ethnic cleansing, and ultimately the genocide, of Palestine’s native population river-to-sea. 

Palestine defines us