Mohammed el-Kurd is a Palestinian writer and poet who has gained prominence for his description of Palestinians' lives under occupation in East Jerusalem and the rest of the West Bank.
12 Facts About Mohammed el-Kurd
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Mohammed el-Kurd has spoken out about the oppression in the Gaza Strip, notably the Gaza war.
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Mohammed el-Kurd was the main subject of the 2013 documentary film My Neighbourhood by Julia Bacha and Rebekah Wingert-Jabi.
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Mohammed el-Kurd is currently studying for a Master of Fine Arts degree in poetry from Brooklyn College.
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Since 2021, Mohammed el-Kurd has been the Palestine correspondent for The Nation.
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Mohammed el-Kurd maintains that Israeli state structures are designed to oppress Palestinians, to make them want to leave, or to force them to leave.
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Mohammed el-Kurd maintains that Israel continues to actively colonize Palestine and that there are still many regimes around the world propagating colonialism, adapting to an increasingly progressive world by making itself less obvious than what he calls the explicit colonization that Israel carries out.
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Mohammed el-Kurd personally has questioned whether he would have the energy to fight back again oppression as characteristic of Palestinians sometimes being "exhausted" from lifelong oppression.
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Mohammed el-Kurd concluded that the collective protests against expulsion in his home neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, showed unprecedented unity among the different groups overcoming the delusions that separation had created.
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Mohammed el-Kurd said that the incident was an example that Palestinians will no longer accept "racism and misrepresentation" on Western television, and that like him, they "really don't take shit" any longer.
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Mohammed el-Kurd described Hamas militants killed by Israel as "martyrs", which could potentially violate UK and Israeli laws.
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Mohammed el-Kurd further stated that he was "obviously not an idiot" and "would never" call for violence.