How Sudan and Palestine reached Super Bowl | Opinions

On Sunday night, amid the scene of Super Bowl, one of the performances raised the flags of Sudan and Palestine. In an accurate controlled event like Super Bowl, its interruption was brief, and it was quickly dealt with by security, and it did not appear on the live broadcast. But the same moment was passing as it was, it was very symbolic.

The Sudanese and Palestinian people resolve to penetrate the control of their novels imposed by the prevailing platforms and speaking. It was another example of how, when facing systematic repression, they found cracks in the system to make their voices heard.

Indeed, for more than a year, the Sudanese and the Palestinians made every effort to speak. They protested their lives, organization and danger to attract attention to their conflicts. But the world refused to listen.

This was not the first time that Super Bowl was a background to erase their suffering. Last year, while millions of Americans were watching the game, Israel implemented a massacre, killing at least 67 Palestinians within hours in Rafah – a region that was appointed “a safe area” by the Israeli army where 1.4 million Palestinians were in size. The timing was not accidental. Israel knew that the American media would be very dispersed so that it could not pay attention to attention and a great collusion with care.

Many of us as activists knew that we had to find ways to confront distraction. In cooperation with Know Collective, I issued a A different type of Super Bowl commercial – Some person does not sell chips or cars, but one mentions the people of the crimes that our government was actively managed in Gaza. The advertisement, which is widely subscribed to social media, had a simple but urgent message: America is distracted by its attention. As we enjoy, children are slaughtered with our tax dollars. While we are proud of the teams, our government provides weapons that transform Palestinian homes into mass graves.

The Romans described it as “bread and circus” – the masses remain feeding and entertainment and will not rise against persecution, or even noticed that. Super Bowl is the greatest circus in modern America, carefully manufactured from the atrocities that our nation funds.

But there are moments like a Sunday night protest that proves that not everyone is ready.

There are also moments like a protest of January 15, 2024, when More than 400,000 people It was collected in Washington, DC, to invite us to the extent that we have colluded in the genocide in Israel for the Palestinians – an unprecedented act of collective mobilization. It was a protest against many historical demonstrations in the country’s capital – however it was hardly covered by the media. If 400,000 people gathered for any other reason, it would have led evening news, and social media and newspaper addresses have worked the next morning. But for Palestine, silence.

This censorship was not. It was a deliberate effort to suppress the voices calling for the Palestinian liberation.

The Palestinians have always had a struggle for vision. When their voices are banned from the prevailing platforms, they moved to social media. When their protests were ignored, they organized a greater organization. When they were erased, they made themselves impossible to forget.

Sudan is a similar story in many ways, but it has its unique considerations. If Palestine is deliberately subject to control, Sudan is almost completely ignored. The Sudanese people were destroyed from a war that destroyed their country. Almost every war crime that can be imagined against the Sudanese people. The size of the suffering is amazing: Tens of thousands of civilians have been killed, more than eight million people have been displaced by force, and entire villages burned on the ground and the famine looming on the horizon. However, Sudan is still barely footnote in the Western media.

Sudanese activists have responded to the #Eyesonsudan retailer, a desperate appeal to the world. But their screams, such as those in the Palestinians, correspond to silence that deaf the ears.

The repression of the story of Sudan is the result of the media system, which is priority only to conflicts that serve political interests. Sudan, unlike Ukraine or Israel, is not carefully commensurate with the Western foreign policy agenda. There is no incentive to cover. Do not gather crying from politicians. No flood of aid. Leave only millions of people to suffer. The media overflowing on Sudan is not only negligence; It is collusion in erasing an entire people.

Thus, for Sudan and Palestine, what happened in Super Bowl was not just a challenge. It was part of a long tradition of people who had to penetrate silence when all official channels failed. It was a reminder that regardless of the amount trying to erase the suffering of Sudan and Palestine, the truth will collapse.

It exceeds the streets, as hundreds of thousands of people continue to walk to Palestine despite the arrests, black list and violent repression. It transcends Sudanese and Palestinian societies, as activists risk their lives to attract the world’s attention. It goes beyond the digital field, as independent journalists, popular base movements and corporate media outperform the true story.

Last night, it was penetrated by one of the most monitored events in the world.

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