Ghassan Kanafani and the era of revolutionary Palestinian media | The Listening Post (Feature)

[@afsanmd]

I'm writing my thesis on him. He's Che Guevara of Palestine. Never seen such a fearless writer.

[@beebee242]

That he is, he is the Malcolm X/Che Guevara and all justice revolutionaries of their time. They snuffed him out because of it. Would love to read your thesis if possible.

[@tdomingues89]

Until he was assassinated by Mossad as a response to the Lod airport massacre, has Ghassan Kanafani said that there would´t be peace talks, or even talks. He die the way he wanted, no talk at all.

[@kashmiriwanderer8701]

Rahul sharma i wanna talk to you regarding this

[@faheemgulzar1]

I would love to read your thesis

[@hajJoey89]

Would love to see it

[@gearoftones8585]

Nothing but admiration for his courage and determination in the face of oppression

[@karismasima]

Just seeing after the conflict has rosen the ceiling in Palestine, and I'm chilling hearing Ghassan Kanafani speech. You can't kill ideology of being freedom, you can't force silent of being occupation, you can't stop fighting to be liberation! From the river to the sea, Palestine Will be FREE 🇵🇸☝️

[@syy9429]

This message rings so true today. I wish we could see the whole interview. It’s not a war. It’s a liberation defence.

[@serpentines6356]

Maybe you should ask Egypt why the built a big fence along the border with Gaza?

[@panwitt]

@@serpentines6356 because isreal is such an aggressive agitator in the region, Egypt has to treat it like a baby in order to not be targeted by the zionists too

[@Pleasure2.0]

All Israelis and western leaders together can not equate the shoelace of Ghassan Kanafani❤

[@Theocracy8]

Don't forget the Arab leaders, too.

[@Pleasure2.0]

@@Theocracy8 Yes, agreed.

[@serpentines6356]

I disagree...The J's are pretty good at contributing to the world. Nobel prizes and all.

[@serpentines6356]

​@@Theocracy8 What Arab leaders? You mean terrorists?

[@serpentines6356]

​@SamBourgeois-mr4hq It definitely is shared with those who actually want to share and learn it. There wasn't much of an Islamic "golden age"... Quite the opposite...The Jihadis came upon more developed societies and pushed them back into the dark ages. (The burning down of the library of Nalanda for one. The recent example is Afghanistan. Muslim countries still believe in slavery, infidels.

[@talaalsharif561]

i love this man. so much. we need him today more than ever

[@faroukkhan476]

A Great HERO of the oppressed people, who spoke without fear

[@serpentines6356]

The Arabs had a chance to accept rheir partition in '48, and several times after. Why haven't they chosen to live in peace with Israel?

[@Ellasoiles]

What a creative and intelligent human being we always lose the great minds too early R.I.P.

[@youngeagle5953]

“The Palestinian cause is not a cause for Palestinians only, but a cause for every honest person living in this planet.” ~ GHASSAN KANAFANI

[@serpentines6356]

Really? Those Marxists shown murdered millions of people, h-8te free speech, freedom of religion, etc. Tell me why I should support ev*l?.

[@serpentines6356]

Really? Those Marxists shown m**dered millions of people, h-8te free speech, freedom of religion, etc. Tell me why I should support ev***l?.

[@serpentines6356]

Really? Those MarXists shown murdered millions of people, h-8te free speech, freedom of religion, etc. Tell me why I should support ev*l?.

[@serpentines6356]

Really? Those MarXists shown murdered millions of people, h-8te free speech, freedom of religion, etc. Tell me why I should support ev*l?.

[@bealfeirsteabu]

Never more relevant than it is today

[@muhammadyousif4555]

Hero of Palestinians, Red Salute to Him. Love from Pakistan 🇵🇰🇵🇸

[@asma-mushtaq]

Ah yes. All good and representative of PK, until the red salute gets inserted. 🙄🤔 Foreign or imported thought has never served us right. Liberation doesn't come from serving new masters. But to each their own, I guess.

[@robertstan298]

@@asma-mushtaq You try hard, a bit too hard. Still clueless tho.

[@wajidhussain5305]

Ghassan’s words are still relevant and western media ignorance is still relevant

[@aviperez666]

"to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights" - yet all they do is reject having these. It's amazing that anyone belives these lies.

[@ayhemshaban9745]

​@@aviperez666 Dignity, respect and justice cannot be obtained through surrender.. u rather live a Iie under the mercy of the oppressors... but the Palestinians will not, they do not reject having these factors, they fight for them.

[@lgic1]

Western media is irrelevant

[@sarahmonroe939]

It's not ignorance when it's on purpose

[@TheMediaMachine]

@@aviperez666 Israel and the west reject these as we have now seen, in the genocide of Palestinians today. You way is kneel, be subservient and be a slave to the Zionst and think this is respect, mere human rights.

[@aaljumaili]

He was one of the most important heroes of Arabic world

[@husseinboulahlib2839]

Not just the arabic world but yhe whole world, but the world is unfair place.

[@shraddheypawar8115]

@@husseinboulahlib2839 probably he shouldn't had bombed 30 civilians at lod Airport, perhaps he got what a deserved for it

[@shebsheb8850]

@@shraddheypawar8115Why is an Indian concerned with Palestinian plight?

[@mvk4343]

@@shebsheb8850 It's called proletarian internationalism

[@jenaroayala5731]

Salute to this great comrade and to all of the heroic Palestinian people! A true example to us the Chicanos of Aztlan inside the belly of the imperialist beast! Viva Palestina! Viva Aztlan! C/S

[@Hussein_Nur]

Wow, he owned that interview.

[@TheAzraf123]

He sooo did, made me a fan.

[@purpleness64]

Yes he did

[@moktarhosen2815]

"to liberate our country, to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights is something as essential as life itself." Those words sum up the sentiments of any patriot in any oppressed country. Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩🇧🇩as Bangladesh was also oppressed by pakistan as well British.

[@TheAzraf123]

Such beautiful and dignified words.

[@aviperez666]

"to have dignity, to have respect, to have our mere human rights" - yet all they do is reject having these. It's amazing that anyone belives these lies.

[@hannahparker424]

tu apni tui mara ley india se

[@danish734]

shut the fuc* up looser. keep licking the feets of indians.

[@austinlaudry8335]

❤️❤️❤️

[@innerlightmarbellamauri4730]

Israel should beg forgiveness for 75 years of rape, theft & murder against the Palestinians! Shameful , this man stood up for Freedom he will never be forgotten!! Love from Spain 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@RalphieMuskinyaar]

A true revolutionary

[@renzalam1482]

He says it the best. In simple words he stated facts about palestine. People need to wake up and see it for what it is.

[@serpentines6356]

I do see it for what it is. That's why I support Israel. Mao, Stalin, Lenin, Pol Pot, murdered millions. Marxist "revolution" is ev*l to the core.

[@ArslanAli-cs1be]

I rewatch this interview everyday

[@KOKO-l1f9r]

You are always in our hearts. Blessing from Pakistan

[@Qashqiir]

"Kind of talk between sword and the neck" whooooooo chills

[@kawsarmodhu8985]

Commando who never fired a gun Weapon was a ballpoint pen and his arena newspaper pages Love and respect from Bangladesh

[@borhanhussein484]

The Israelis has killed a true freedom fighter and a great Palestine writer and he would have made a lot of difference to the middle east peace today if he is still alive and not killed by the heartless Israelis regime. We long and pray for an Arab journalist and leader like him who is fearless to the cause of free Palestine.

[@ralphtom3431]

Israeli sasha cohen mocked this man as borat

[@mysteryd8866]

If someone like him appear again he will unfortunately be killed again

[@nkhoury1]

Ghassan understood what it takes to be free. That's why the Israelis murdered him. May his soul RIP and may his vision remain alive.

[@sarrabelaskri4460]

This interview just shows how much the ability to control the narrative in a conflict, is crucial. The Palestinians didn't succeed in imposing their narrative and as a result they were completely dehumanized in the west and their needs overlooked for decades yet, if we choose to look just at the plain facts, these people were brutally ousted of their land, overnight, to permit the creation of a Jewish state. How is that fair ? I can't begin to fathom why Arabs of all people, had to pay for European crimes toward Jews ? To this day, Palestinians are slauthered, bombarded, persecuted ... simply because they are Palestinians and want a Palestinian state. It is a sinister irony of History that the descendants of Holocaust survivors managed to create another Holocaust.

[@mereje]

Well written. I learned so much in the past days from people like hassan and bassem (piers Morgan)

[@gongli1996]

British came up with this idea: to get rid of jews, pin them against arabs, control the region, resources and the Suez Canal. Palestinians don't even feature anywhere in this. No one was counting on them. And remember how they were erased from the narrative: a land without PEOPLE...there are no people, so there's no humanitarian crisis..later that was translated into terrorists and now latest into rats.

[@mohammed85668]

أك

[@lulusp1023]

Bds Israel for ever....freedom for Palestine

[@vivalapalestine7235]

We need another documentary on ghassan Please Al Jazeera we need more great content like this more then ever

[@MaineCoon-vq7ri]

Listening to this again and how relevant it is even today!

[@shorifaqchoudhury3102]

His words are so true today...... unfortunately so😢

[@KimberlyChappellCooks]

"That is a conversation between a sword and a neck" 🍉

[@Esther_R143]

Without spilling blood, no fight is a fight. Without carrying on a relentless battle, life turns burdensome. When the fight ceases to exist, the urge to surrender creeps in. However, surrender itself is nothing less than humiliation. So to live a life with guts is way better than carry forward a life of humiliation.

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

What an excellent presentation.

[@jithinpoliyedathmohanan7237]

Your 'S' is simply soo soothing... Love it

[@bigcitybigcity2417]

why is there no documentary about this great patriot

[@nidge8703]

I grew up in Australia watching 60 minutes for years. The reporter that interviewed Kanafani is Richard Carleton, he was a presenter on 60 minutes for a long time until his death in the mid 2000s. I remember watching this interview a long time ago but never knew that it was Richard Carleton that interviewed Kanafani. It’s become quite iconic that the poor questions from Carleton has led to such legendary responses from Kanafani.

[@auschannel6212]

Very strong voice

[@UmQasaann]

Ghassan Kanafani 🇸🇾❤️🇵🇸

[@amateur_homecook]

I can’t believe I’m here and I’m related to ghassan kanafani

[@pinkzweibel985]

He is beautiful inside and outside 😍

[@rezginreyo765]

Because he was Kurdish NOT arab Thats why. Search his name on google. He was assimilated to palestinian identity.

[@Blackbadger554]

​@@rezginreyo765no not kurdish stop bullshit..

[@libyangamer3698]

​​@@rezginreyo765here we go again with the inferiority complex The Messenger was an Arab...what is the problem then??. So now when someone is beatiful inside and outside because he is Kurdish😂 what a sickness you got pal

[@JohnDoe-zd9xq]

Timeless revolutionary

[@muneebbhat3928]

That guy was just great ❤️

[@ya7yalubnan]

He was so smart and what the liberation movement really needed and that why they killed him. His pen was more powerful than a gun, and that frightened them.

[@Kwame-yw9kz]

“If you want to understand any problem in America, you need to focus on who profits from that problem, not who suffers from the problem." Ghassan Kanafani

[@MYInteriorArchitect]

اللَّهُمَّ زِدْنَا وَلا تَنْقُصْنَا ، وَأَكْرِمْنَا وَلا تُـهِنَّا ، وَأَعْطِنَا وَلا تَحْرِمْنَا ، وَآثِرْنَا وَلا تُؤْثِرْ عَلَينَا ، وَأَرْضِنَا وَارْضَ عَنَّا

[@00_grey]

آمين يا رب العالمين

[@marrisa17]

I read Men on the Sun. It was a deeply touching experience.

[@zahrataheri9042]

I love him so much. Free Palestine from the river to the sea. Rest in peace. Your people are fighting like lions to get their land back🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋

[@majeedmansoor197]

His words make them shiver…..

[@LilyGraceySa]

I was named after his niece, the little girl who accompanied him in life and death, Lamees.

[@jahangirsamtio8690]

He was a man of principles, Arabs have failed against west and Israel look at afghans they taught them a lesson single-handedly.

[@Coohy]

This applies today 10 times more then it sid when he said this

[@NUZICASTLE]

whatever .. its not whatever this is a Liberation !!! so fearless and meaningful

[@MaineCoon-vq7ri]

If he’s looking down and seeing what’s happening to Palestine now … I don’t think there’s even any words to describe what’s happening now … the sword in the neck

[@dr.muhannadalnaser2082]

Palestine we are with you forever 🇹🇷♥️🇵🇸♥️🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@vivalapalestine7235]

AL JAZEERA MAKE ANOTHER GHASSAN KANAFANI DOCUMENTARY

[@rokiahhashim6153]

I love him!

[@sabihatanveer8494]

I admire him 👍

[@satnamo]

The leader of Popular Palestinian Liberation Front is Ghassan Kanafani ❤he was born in Palestine but fled in 1948, as he puts it, from Zionist terror 😢

[@ungratefulninja4535]

Just finding out about G. K. Rest In Power.💚 Freedom, Justice and Equality for Palestine 🇵🇸 Be healthy y'all 🌿

[@واديالذئاب-غ7ز]

thank you, be healthy you too

[@lulusp1023]

Freedom for Palestine

[@honeybee3579]

May Allah have mercy on him we need more people like him in our world today

[@anjumalvi3038]

"What colonialism does, is to create homelessness for the people.....home is to which you belong, what gives people the freedom for possibilities to live..." and this living is humanity as it allows us to have our multidimensionality, freedom, justice, and dignity.

[@methheadsturmgeschuetziii593]

It's not that the world don't want to hear, it's that we don't agree or don't care.

[@ahmedbassair3517]

Atlast now Palestinian struggle started to be heard

[@Rustiq838]

I just love him❤

[@FredoTheFloet]

What an amazing man I’ve never heard of him until today 🤦🏽‍♂️ & question to any book readers, does anyone know the title & author of a book that is based on an Israeli male going into Palestine pretending to be Palestinian to see what they go through first hand?

[@ahmedatifabrar7698]

Compilation of Al-Hadaf issues should be a gem. Are those translated into Bangla or English? His رجال فی الشمس has been translated into Bengali from Arabic, but who holds his copyright now?

[@yahya_amoudi]

His wife is the owner of the copyright

[@edwardjones2202]

His complete works in Arabic are available from Rimal Books

[@Theocracy8]

Any translated to English?

[@manuelaamorim8974]

We was the most wanderful Palestinian Heroe

[@Riqqie2000]

R.I.P

[@doumjawaziri5579]

Justice for shireen 🕊

[@deliri0um]

why were there so many revolutionaries in 1960s? almost all the most prominent activists are from that era the interviews from then are so powerful. why dont we have anything like that now?

[@royyeuh2854]

mainly the rise of the ussr which gave hope to revolutionaries all around the world, now ever since the death of the ussr capitalism's hegemony has been growing more and more every year, effectively killing any alternative thinking

[@ismo9529]

Because they lost, now we're in the so called matrix, to abrupt it something crazy must happen, maybe the so called matrix will destroy itself. Let's see how China and the US will act in the next 50 years

[@pebblesbubbles8007]

They were killed or currently bribed to keep quiet or languishing in prisons if they are outspoken.

[@Blackbadger554]

Usa call him terrorism..

[@RB-rn8tq]

Because more than four decades of NeoCon suprimacy has suffocated every voice of clarity and courage and has made the populace dum and dull.

[@DawoodKhan-pv4rj]

A True Warrior of hes People & Islam.

[@eeeethn]

revolutionary

[@vidnosh7406]

Killing a man and his niece with a car bomb is terrorism or is not? And that so many people still love him today does show his ideas are stronger than violence. So how can those people who have used violence because they don't have the better ideas can use the word terrorist against those whom they killed because they had the better ideas? How delusional is that?

[@karpuzir]

where do i buy his books

[@AllaahuAkbarr]

See the world map of 1920 Palestine 🇵🇸 existed since time immemorial. 🇵🇸 Palestine 🇵🇸 is the winner 🇵🇸🏆. 🇵🇸

[@eeeethn]

revolutionary writer

[@vivalapalestine7235]

Hey KZbin stop making Al Jazeera videos hard to find You just can’t handle the truth ? Not once in these docs have I seen Qatar’s ownership being a problem to getting to the truth

[@biouyb5828]

✊🏼☮️🇵🇸

[@tiustvmks9503]

😢😢from indonesian

[@RoyaSalis2021]

The Pen is mightier than the sword, as they say. The strongest of all weapons is the ability to reason well and fairly. Long live humanity.

[@Massage_of_Peace]

❤❤

[@maismh2125]

الله يرحمك❤

[@chillende]

Richard Carlton did journalism a deep, deep disservice in that exchange with Kanafani.

[@alexisthes]

long live ghassan

[@mohammedashfaq3734]

We Kashmiris know the suffering of the Palestinans living under the brutal regime of Modi who is our Satanyahu

[@drnidaghatte9076]

Ghasaan kanafani❤

[@abdullahbueno7532]

Falasteen will teach America what it has turn it back on أ عطني الحرية أعطني الموت “Give me liberty or give me death " the words of Patrick Henry, one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the first governor of Virginia. A gifted orator and major figure in the American Revolution, his rousing speeches- which included a 1775 speech to the Virginia legislature in which he famously declared, "Give me liberty, or give me death!"-fired up America's fight for independence. Free Falsteen فلسطين حرّة Desert Storm Veteran مقاتل عاصفة الصحراء المخضرم

[@JDazell]

This instagram page presented in this video that has 67.5k followers no longer exists December 2023. Meta has taken it down.

[@SalmanAhmad-wm2qm]

'We're all bad in someone's story' give humans an escape to do whatever deems right to 'them' without going into details .. mere surface talk is not enough !!! A very insightful interview that invokes the ability to go into details ... to unfold the layers of any matter (better call it issue), just like an onion ... !

[@ramirami5466]

Paletinian Hero

[@kuchojoe500]

Rest in peace bro,

[@stupendous1068]

Would have been interesting to see what Khanafani would have gone on to if he hadn't have been assassinated.

[@ginevrajdeluca6589]

🙏❤️‍🔥 A blessed soul. A prophet. Dignity, respect, and human rights. Two commandments of Allah/God: 1. Love one's self (in order to) 2. Love one's neighbour, brother, sister. If disrespected in any way, go back to the first commandment, whereby thought, emotion, and action become one movement, under Allah and over the oppressor.

[@sarrarbh249]

patria o muerte, palestine always

[@freddelacroix9002]

يجب أن تؤمن بالحق أن كل ما يمنحه الله أو يسمح به هو لخلاصك.

[@zakirnaikahmaddeedat3651]

All i can say is Allahu Akbar!

[@maila_]

Free Palestine!!! 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

[@rezginreyo765]

Ghassan Kanafani was Kurdish. Make awareness about Kurdistan as Well. They are struggling and oppressed by turks and iranian regime as Well as syria and iraq.

[@Blackbadger554]

@@rezginreyo765 keep bark

[@hudsons3184]

An international peacekeeping force is required to protect holy sites and civilians from this cruel inhumane occupation.

[@johnwilsonwsws]

Israel can carry out its crimes because of the backing of the imperialist powers. In fact Israel only exists because those powers needed a reliable ally in the middle east to have some control over the regions energy reserves and trade routes. How was the guerrilla armed struggle meant to change this? The Palestinians have a right to resist but armed resistance won’t solve the crisis. Moreover the PFLP relied on patronage from the Arab nationalist regimes. The only social force that can stop the slaughter is the international working class so the essential struggle a political one among workers, students and youth around the globe. The following is relevant QUOTE … [The SEP’s] criticisms of Hamas are of a political, not hypocritically moralistic character. It is a bourgeois national movement, and the methods it resorts to, including a military operation such as that undertaken on October 7, cannot result in the defeat of the Zionist regime and the liberation of the Palestinian people. Moreover, to the extent that Hamas depends upon the patronage of one or another bourgeois regime in the Middle East, its struggle against the Zionist state will always be subordinated to the interests of the capitalist ruling elites of the region, and, therefore, to their reactionary maneuverings with the Israeli regime and world imperialism. In the final analysis, the liberation of the Palestinian people can be achieved only through a unified struggle of the working class, Arab and Jewish, against the Zionist regime as well as the treacherous Arab and Iranian capitalist regimes, and their replacement with a union of socialist republics throughout the Middle East, and, indeed, the entire world. … From WSWS: Socialist internationalism and the struggle against Zionism and imperialism David North 25 October 2023

[@jakirhasankhan9069]

Oneday we wll be free from israeli colonization. Dear friend Kalafani

[@allykhan8594]

Subhana Rabbi al A'la. He speaks as a noble of Old, of the knights of the Mulimeens. The quality of this kind of man has now left us! The ummah itself is corrupt as well as the alimmah. Each soul must protect itself against a Day no being can avail another. King Hussein removed his army (the Jordan Expeditionary Force trained by the British, was the only professional army on the field of battle) battlefield of 1948 his soldiers in a winning position at the Behest of the British and by order of the Americans. The assassination attempt on his life consequently was predictable. Neither your name, rank, status tribe, the wealth of the world, and how you Arranged it or your lineage will protect you on that Day. "with a flick of my pen, i created Trans-Jordan" Winston Churchill. Why do you think the British Monarchy shows preference to these traitors?

[@allykhan8594]

@Danny Al Ameen. Traitors are worse then kufr.

[@austinlaudry8335]

Thank you for your service, Mr. Kanafani. You will forever be loved. Free Palestine, from The River to The Sea 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸