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Lababidi examines Palestinian silence on naming Gaza genocide
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Yahya Lababidi's essay "If You Cannot Say Genocide" investigates the constraints Palestinians face in describing events in Gaza, according to ArabLit. The work centers on a central paradox: the difficulty of articulating the reality of what is occurring without employing the specific terminology that names it.
The piece engages with the tension between lived experience and language available to those attempting to bear witness. Lababidi explores how Palestinians navigate the fraught space between describing destruction and the political, legal, and social barriers that complicate direct naming.
