NATALIE KENDEL

Have you ever shared information online about the experience of an oppressed group, and two minutes later some white middle aged man pops up in the comments: "Where's the proof? Explain it to me. What are your sources?" This frequent event is not an accident, nor is it indicative of the well-meaning curiosity or critical-thinking-prowess of white men. It's something much darker. It stems from white entitlement.

Many of you who have followed me over the past three years will probably recognise a certain family I have talked about so many times. A family inside Gaza Concentration Camp, whom I have been supporting and working to raise funds for. This family consisting of mother, Nouf, daughter Lamees (20s), and son Momo (6). Yesterday, I was been informed that Nouf has died. No, she was killed. Nouf, a Palestinian mother, was murdered by the Israelis. Nouf succumbed to the wounds susta

White person you have no idea what it's like to practice talking about the holocaust of our people like we're preparing for a court trial or an interview To pick the words carefully To reach for the metaphors that might appeal to you "What if that was your family?" "Imagine if this happened in London, Oslo, Washington?" Our grief is only valid when we hold it up against white reality You should be on trial Your silence Your mincing of words Your apathy You should be the one h

It's going to be a short one today. This isn't a carefully-crafted article. It's just what happened... Today I saw new massacres in Gaza Concentration Camp. I have never seen anything so horrific in my life. Faces torn off, heads halved, a toddler drenched in blood. Actual human faces crushed and torn like clay into horrible deformities, their expressions of horror frozen, eyes wide. Murdered by the Israeli colonisers. Bodies piled high. So many dead. I cannot share the video

White forgetfulness and a Shona proverb...

The long-standing practice in white society of feigning complexity where there is none.

The "red line" of the Palestinian genocide has been defined and policed by the white West for too long.

If you were to enter a Christo-religious space and ask what the most important part of the church population is, many, if not all people, would respond that it is the children. "The children are our future." "The teens, the youth, the young people." "They are the ones who will carry on the church. They are the ones who will take the baton from us." That sounds rather noble, doesn't it. But the yawning chasm between this sentiment and the reality of adult actions is damning. "

"Israel", you usurper. You false god. You liar. You're that same enemy called "white supremacy" and "white colonialism". Only, you bear a stolen name, and play dress-up with ancient, plagiarised symbolism. But you're not ancient. You're not God-sent. Everything about you is counterfeit. Including that victim card you plucked from the pocket of Holocaust victims. You're as fickle as fascism, as insecure as white, male ego. Desperate to be real, desperate to justify your abomin

Today is the 7th of October. Today marks 2 years since we woke up. Today, the Israeli occupation will spend their time playing the victim...

Those who fail to name the villain, fail the victim.

We've now spent nearly two years trying to make others understand why the Palestinian genocide is about abuse, oppression, injustice, evil, and has no "two sides". We've done this by comparing it to abusive relationships, to murder, to the Holocaust, to the South African apartheid, to the genocide of Native peoples in "North America", to narcissistic abuse, to the Jim Crow laws (the American apartheid), to slavery. We've emptied the cartridge of every metaphor-weapon we could

Oh Lord How can you say that we should not be afraid when children are being beheaded and the pregnant women run over by tanks and the...

Abstract This essay explores the convergence of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) “health message”, Norwegian societal emphasis on health...

I read aloud The Bible in 100 days. And I learned some surprising things in the process.

How is Palestine, and our response to the genocide, a litmus test to Christians?

The weakest link in any society has, without fail, been white men and white adolescent boys. They are the weakest members. History...

Atle Haugen is a Norwegian Adventist pastor, editor of the Adventist magazine, "Adventnytt", and Bible teacher at TVS, the Norwegian...

Snow White I am Lebanese. I am half Danish, half Lebanese, and Norwegian by nationality. But people don't exist as halves; they exist as...

I recently travelled through Oslo S - the central train station in Norway's capital city. It was a particularly busy day since it...