Hunger and thirst for justice
Mohammed was 16 years old, and one day last week went out with his uncles to try to get food.
He and his family, like everyone in Gaza, were slowly being starved to death.
They were at a food distribution point when the Israeli Army opened fire.
His uncles searched among the corpses but couldn't find him.
They hoped that maybe he had somehow survived.
But eventually they found his body.
It had been mutilated beyond recognition and they knew it was him because he had borrowed his father's work shoes.
His father was a baker and had not seen a bag of flour for a month.
As we know, the Israeli army is deliberately starving the population of Gaza. It has opened up a few food distribution centres in locations they can control.
And then the army fire indiscriminately on the people who are queueing up for food.
This is not terrorism, apparently.
Meanwhile, back in the UK, a direct action group called Palestine Action managed to spray paint on two RAF fighter aircraft last Friday.
That is terrorism, apparently.
Anyone joining the group or expressing support for them will be committing a terrorist offence.
Also today, the UK government announced it is buying 12 F-35A jets, which are capable of carrying the US B61-12 gravity bomb.
This is a bomb which has more than three times the explosive power of the weapon dropped on Hiroshima.
Which means it can kill half a million people in a single blast.
But owning such a weapon with intent to use it is not terrorism either.
Apparently…
Meanwhile yesterday Arts Workers For Palestine Scotland were planning to hold a week long cultural event in the public courtyard of the Centre For Contemporary Art in Glasgow.
It was intended to feature events, workshops and screenings to showcase Palestinian art and culture.
But instead found themselves expelled by the police.
Police Scotland say a criminal investigation is now under way linked to licensing laws.
The CCA Board say:
“Law enforcement was called in response to a forced entry, and the building was secured”
And that they “regret the disruption caused by today’s events and the impact on all those involved inside and outside of the building.”
It is as if many of our cultural institutions, like our government, know, deep down, that they are complicit with war crimes.
And cannot bear that knowledge.
And so seek to silence those who protest against them.
But they will fail.
“The Queendom is like a grain of mustard seed,” says Queen Jesus, “You can try to suppress it, if you like.
But if you do, it will grow underground and burst through all the walls built to contain it…”
“Bless those who hunger and thirst for wrongs to be made right again.
Their hunger and their thirst for justice will be satisfied…”