Ramzy Baroud : "Thus, identifying with Black or Native Americans, the refugees of Syria, the victims of South African Apartheid or the Rohingya of Burma is hardly an act of political expediency, but a natural moral inclination. A culture even.
Edward Said had convincingly articulated the concept of ‘global perspective’ that made the Palestinian struggle part and parcel of a global fight for social justice. For Palestinians, the lines have become truly blurred between their political identity, their own culture and that of a much greater fight with loftier goals.
“In the case of a political identity that’s being threatened, culture is a way of fighting against extinction and obliteration,” Said wrote.
“Culture is a form of memory against effacement.”