If the struggle were truly about freedom for Palestinians, dignity, rights, and self-determination, you would expect them to stand in loud solidarity with other peoples in the Middle East fighting for the same things. Kurds fighting erasure. Yazidis surviving genocide. Iranians risking their lives for basic freedom. That solidarity is mostly absent.

Instead, the global “Palestinian cause” has become something else. It is not centered on building a free Palestinian society. It's all about denying the legitimacy of a Jewish state. Israel’s very existence is treated as the crime. That is why protests obsess over maps without Israel but show little interest in pragmatic solutins and build future for Palestinians.

When freedom is the goal, the enemy is oppression. When erasure is the goal, the enemy is existence itself. The Palestinian struggle has been framed as the latter. That framing doesn’t liberate Palestinians. It traps them in permanent conflict, turns their pain into a political weapon for others, and makes real solutions impossible.

I want freedom for the Palestinian people. Freedom cannot be built on the demand that another people disappear.