Political Friendship Breakups

Friendships are the glue that holds us together amidst immeasurable pain and oppression. Especially now, as for the past three years we have witnessed the genocide in Gaza, and now Israel’s genocidal intent in Lebanon. Between fifty and sixty villages in Lebanon have been reduced to ashes—villages that have existed for thousands of years. While my own people face the evil of a Zionist ethno-state and its allies, being displaced in the belly of the beast hurts in ways I’ve struggled to put into words.