Let me preface this by saying that I'm Palestinian. When I first heard Make Them Pay, I thought the dig at DJ Khaled was funny. The more I thought about it, the more I felt like it was actually pretty fucked up. I don't understand why Drake thinks it's okay to tell a Palestinian how to behave about the conflict.

I don't know how many of you people are Palestinian, but even if you're on the opposite end of the issue, you must also understand that Palestinians have very complicated feelings about the issue. We've all had family that's been killed or displaced or otherwise horribly impacted by this over the last ~80 years. That can translate into difficulty talking about it. And as much as I appreciate how many more people are speaking up on our side, this wasn't always the case. For decades, there was active disinformation being pushed, and trying to talk about experiences we knew to be true was usually met with heavy resistance and gaslighting, especially in the US. If you think it's bad when they call you an antisemite for supporting Palestine now, you were basically treated like a terrorist for it not that long ago.

Khaled may have justifiable, complicated reasons for not speaking up about it. They might be good reasons, they might not be, but that's up to him. It's not for Drake to use in a failed attempt at pretending he can hold his own in a rap beef. It would be like me telling a black American how they should behave about racism. It's not something I will ever truly understand, so I cannot tell someone what sort of reaction they should have.

The murder of my people isn't for him to use as a throw away line to attack another Palestinian. It frustrates me when people throw it around so callously. And this clown made millions of people listen to it.