The main point I want to make today is that everyone’s liberation is bound up with the liberation of Palestine; not only Palestinians, not only Israelis, but all of us who live in and with the ongoing and genocidal illness of White Supremacy & Settler Colonialism. An illness that has ravaged much of the world and from which we must heal if we have any chance of surviving as a species because this liberation is inextricably linked to Climate change as well.

We need to grow our muscles and capacity for love. Love, as hooks stresses, is not simply a feeling. It is a practice, a verb. It must be put into action concretely and locally, and then it can change the whole world. Love’s power is that it is both universal and specific. One cannot love abstractly, but through specific experiences of love—perhaps especially “down there in the thick of things” among those things we would rather reject— one can grow one’s capacity for loving it all.