Hyden, Gigi

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Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine Volume 71 Issue 1 Dispatches from the Global Intifada Article 15 What Will You Say? Gigi Hyden Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon  Part of the Creative Writing Commons Recommended Citation Hyden, Gigi () "What Will You Say?," Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine: Vol. 71: Iss. 1, Article 15. Available at: https://digitalcommons.humboldt.edu/toyon/vol71/iss1/15 This Creative Nonfiction is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt. It has been accepted for inclusion in Toyon: Multilingual Literary Magazine by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ Cal Poly Humboldt. For more information, please contact kyle.morgan@humboldt.edu. DISPATCHES FROM THE GLOBAL INTIFADA19ALTARWHAT WILL YOU SAY? So my question to you is what will you say to your children and your grandchildren when they learn of the genocide of Palestinians? What will you tell them when they look you in the eyes and ask what you did to stop the first genocide in history to be live-streamed and witnessed in real time by the entire world? Will you tell them you jus-tified the atrocious acts of a white supremacist, colonial, imperialist regime under the guise of holocaust trauma or 2,000-year-old ties? Will you tell them you attended Gigi Hyden a dinner and “discussion” about “both sides” while Israel is starving Palestinians to death? Will you tell them you condemned disruptive direct action because it made you feel uncomfortable or it was incon-venient? What have you done to stop this genocide? What have you done to reject the normalization of mass war crimes, apartheid, eth-nic cleansing, and genocide in the name of safety? What have you done to absolve yourself on your own judgment day? What have you laid on the line?If you’d like to know more about how you can become more civical-ly engaged for Palestine on a local level, follow us on Instagram at @humboldtforpalestine.Anonymous

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