Wild Red Poppies and Sumud

Sumud is Arabic for “steadfast perseverance” and a description of the resistance we saw and heard about today from villagers from the Palestinian southern Hebron hills - from Susiya, to Al-Twani, to Saroura.

The courage to live out - “To exist is to resist!” - requires Sumud when the Israeli settler-colonial empire brings so many expanding layers of violence. Israeli settlers and soldiers destroy olive trees, kill sheep, cut off access to water, demolish homes, roads and other infrastructure and attack children walking to school and more.

The Israeli apartheid regime grows in its efforts to secure more and more Palestinian land and resources while terrorizing and dehumanizing Palestinians living on the land.