![Mourners raise a Palestinian flag during the funeral of Mohammad Kiwan, a 17-year-old Palestinian boy who succumbed to his wounds after Israeli forces shot him, in the mostly Palestinian city of Umm al-Fahm in northern Israel, on May 20, 2021 [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/000_9AE97L.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The unity which Palestinians demonstrated in the past few weeks marks the rise of a new national consciousness.
![Mourners pray over the bodies of 17 Palestinians who were killed in overnight Israeli air raids in Gaza City on May 16, 2021 [AP/Sanad Latifa]](/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/AP_21136469384118-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
Today’s assault on Gaza may be Palestine’s Sharpeville massacre. It may well trigger the downfall of Israeli apartheid.
![Palestinians gather near Anata village of Jerusalem to stage a protest against the wall built on a road to separate the vehicles with Israeli licence plates and Palestinian licence plates in West Bank on January 23, 2019 [File: Issam Rimawi/Anadolu Agency]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/f68b0b87e65146fe9dab1ae33a4507b4_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Israeli NGO’s acknowledgement of Israel’s apartheid is just a small step in the right direction.
![A woman holds a 'Boycott Israel' sign during a demonstration against the Israeli offensive on Gaza on August 1, 2014 [File: Reuters/Steffi Loos]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/2014-08-01T120000Z_3722015_GM1EA8206QF02_RTRMADP_3_MIDEAST-GAZA-GERMANY-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
It is time for the de-Osloisation of the Palestinian struggle.
![A Palestinian flag flutters as Palestinians gather on a hilltop during a protest against Israeli settlements in the town of Beita in the Israeli occupied West Bank, on March 2, 2020 [File: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/2020-03-05T090938Z_1603844616_RC2LDF96BRC3_RTRMADP_3_ISRAEL-PALESTINIANS-SETTLEMENTS-1.jpg?resize=270%2C180)
The Palestinian people need to break free of the reality that various ‘accords’ have imposed on them.
![PLO leader Yasser Arafat shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin after the signing of the peace accord, at the White House on September 13, 1993 [File: Reuters/Gary Hershorn]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/73edbbaac1fa40c6a511759738a00533_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
What Edward Said predicted in the 1990s came to be. The PLO’s two-state project has failed.
![An Egyptian buys a pin with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) logo during the launch of the campaign in Egypt on April 20, 2015 [File: AP/Amr Nabil]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/2ea3575559464e64b0e9da4823158148_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
We need to move away from the idea of a two-state solution and embrace the vision of one secular, democratic state.
![Blue and White leader Benny Gantz speaks at the party headquarters following the announcement of exit polls in Tel Aviv, Israel, September 18, 2019 [File: Corinna Kern/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/1b96645003cf46608d45309e2ccff520_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Palestinian politicians will not gain anything from supporting a general accused of war crimes to become prime minister.
![A Palestinian singer performs during an event calling for the boycott of Eurovision on the rubble of a building recently destroyed by Israeli air raids in Gaza on May 14 [Reuters/Mohammed Salem]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/e9d41950bdfd487aaebaa9dd2ce5a5ae_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
How does it feel to sing so close to so much human misery and suffering?
![A wounded Palestinian boy is evacuated during a protest at the Israel-Gaza fence, in the southern Gaza Strip on May 3, 2019 [Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/84d7f392880d434ea1fa0f0968065f75_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
And no amount of Israeli propaganda and Eurovision whitewashing can erase the legitimacy of its right to do so.