Kansas City Public Radio Platforms Local Palestinian Activist 2024

Just something to remember for pledge month . . . 

To be fair . . .

This interview isn't full of far more controversial statements that appear on the groups socials and wouldn't seem as agreeable to our whispering smarty-pants colleagues . . . Check-it:

An organizer with Al-Hadaf KC, and has family in Gaza [says] being Palestinian in this moment means constantly feeling erased.

"A list of 20,000 names, Palestinian names, came out as killed by Israel — a list that in the children under 6 section, listed two of my cousins. The President of the United States undermined it and said it was the price of war, and I think that my existence as a Palestinian in itself is this form of resistance, because that's what it felt like, erasure. And my existence as a Palestinian is resistance, because you can't kill us all."

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

After a year of war in Gaza, Palestinians in Kansas City say they feel 'erased'

In the year since Hamas' Oct. 7 terrorist attack, Israel's war in Gaza has killed 42,000 Palestinians and led to a humanitarian crisis. KCUR's Up To Date spoke to members of Kansas City's Palestinian community about how they're feeling and how the war has impacted them.

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