From Khalistan to Palestine
Guest blogged by Moninder Singh
I am for Palestinian statehood, and at the same time I am for the existence of the state of Israel. I am against rockets fired into civilian areas killing innocents indiscriminately, but I am even more against what can only be seen as purposely targeted air strikes against the children and innocents of Gaza. I am against those who think the existence of Jews and Israel must be challenged, and in the same breath, I am against Zionist and Israeli nationalism that doesn’t recognize the state of Palestine or the right to self-determination of the Palestinian people. It is indeed that simple in my mind.
A recent Palestine solidarity rally in the Bay area. Photo by Gurinder Singh Wadhwa.
It was only a recent photograph of a forward thinking and young Sikh waving a Khalistan flag at a pro-Palestine rally in California  that pushed me to give my views on the topic as well– but as a Sikh and not a wannabe political analyst. For weeks I have been listening to conversations from many within the Sikh community on the issue of Palestinian statehood versus the existence of Israel. The underlying question nobody is really touching on is, why does it have to be one or the other?
This illegal occupation and massacre instigated and carried out by Israel with excuses of Palestinian aggression has nothing to do with the fact that Yasser Arafat (former Leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization) was close to Indira Gandhi or the fact that Israel was instrumental in training Indian law enforcement agencies on dealing with threats to their national security which were also deployed in Punjab against Sikhs throughout the 1990s. These actions do not define the masses or their rights. It defines only misguided leadership and corrupt governments. What is even more troubling is the refusal of many Sikhs to comment on this issue by stating, “I am not an expert in Palestinian/Israeli affairs.” But who said you had to be? If it is only the “experts†that are needed to make decisions on the fate of an entire population, then we as Sikhs should take up shovels for digging graves and hauling carts of wood for funeral pyres because the oppressed peoples of the world who are resisting tyranny like the Palestinians will need them today, and make no mistake that we ourselves will likely need them tomorrow…just like we did yesterday.
A revolution never did and never will need “experts.†A revolution needs nothing but the people. And from them it demands their minds for the ability to think without fear, it demands their voices for the ability to speak without fear, and if needed, it will demand their blood to accomplish their dream to live without fear. It should never be that the oppressed of yesterday becomes the oppressor of today, but when that does happen and as it has happened in the case of Israel oppressing our Palestinian brothers and sisters, we as Sikhs have a duty to uphold the principles of our Gurus and stand in solidarity with and struggle alongside those who are being oppressed.
48 Responses to “From Khalistan to Palestine”
There is a need to go further in exposition of how the word revolution fits into Sikh thought. This word is so often used without elaboration as a catch phrase, and the simple utterance of it is taken as an action of significant in and of itself.
If possible continue to explain from Gurubani and history what this word revolution means.
Also, the MUST for Sikhs comes from a connection to Divine Love, no? All motivation is a desire to be closer to Waheguru, no? There is no MUST except for the MUST of this call. Seems like this needs to be moved more centrally into the developing thesis here.
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Thanks for posting it. I liked everything in your essay except the last part. As Sikhs we have to help all irrespective of their hue,creed, faith, sexual orientation etc. etc. for the sake of equality.
As this is the main goal/mission of all Sikhs then every place we dwell at, which are mostly all nooks of this world become our Staans.
Hence, rather than the slogans you have used, I would use- Sikhi Values, Zindabad.
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Tejwant Singh
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The Singh with the Flag is Me…
By needing to bring this to everyone's attention you only demonstrate that it's your haumai … not you.
Great article and good explanation of Sikh concepts. The conclusion however, is wrong!
Just because the Palestinians are getting their ass kicked, does not automatically mean that they are 'victims' or that they are in the right. Similarly, just because Israel has superior military technology, does NOT automatically mean that that they are "oppressors" or that they are morally and ethically wrong!
To give an example, lets say that I go to the south side of Chicago with my family to visit some tourist attractions, and a businessman specializing in selling drugs tries to sell his product to my teenage children. I see this and protest loudly. The businessman calls in his partners and employees and they beat me up and cause me to flee with my injured wife and children. If I say the businessman is a "criminal oppressor" and that my family and I are "oppressed victims", I am sure most of you would agree.
Now lets say you come to visit north side of Chicago (where I live) with your family as tourists, and the same businessman tries to sell his product to your teenage children. You protest loudly. I happen to be having a party with my friends in a house nearby and we hear your protests. We come out, take the law into our own hands, beat him and his employees/partners senseless, destroy his products, kick them out, and warn them about ever stepping again into our neighborhood. Next he goes to news media and cries and whines that we in the north are "oppressors" who destroyed his product and broke his bones, that we practice apartheid, and that he and his injured partners/employees are "oppressed victims"…………. Would you agree with him??
This a really central issue. The western radical tradition of revolution is not neccesarilly equivalent to the Sikh view on justice.
Western radical tradition holds preeminent place on suffering as a moral good; Jesus on the cross dying for the sins of mankind. There is also a strong place for the view that we look from the view of theory of oppression in order to determine the moral and social justice of a situation. E.g. the proletariat/working class in conflict with the capitalist class. This was subsequently enlarged by post-modern movements to include oppression based on gender, race, abelist oppression, and further oppressive structures are being investigated regularly.
The Sikh view holds that introspection, removal of motviation from the Five thieves and a way of living in which the move toward justice occurs as a natural outgrowth of our movement toward Sach/Truth in sangat will create social awareness and social power in a manner of Sahej – naturally and freely flowing and without fear or enmity.
Books can be written on this, much further thought and dialogue is required. However, the idea that what ails our Quom is that we are not pursuing the western radical tradition faithfully enough is a potentially misguided approach.
Also, it would be a good idea to clarify the source of this passage:
Garib Ki Rakhia (defence of the oppressed)
Jarvane Ki Bhakkhia (destruction of the oppressor)
Isn't this a couplet that Guru-ji may have spoken to someone that was not written down directly but has come to us in a second hand source? Is it Gurubani?
"what can only be seen as purposely targeted air strikes against the children and innocents of Gaza". Well we now see that, "what can only be seen", depends on the one allowing you to do the seeing! It's now been clarified beyond doubt that those who were reporting from Gaza labored under severe constraints as to what they were permitted by Hamas to report. Ironically, one of the reporters who exposed the truth about firing rockets from heavily populated areas, effectively turning the residents, as well as the foreign press, into humans shields whose deaths would ably serve PR purposes, was from Indian TV. By the way, I have been to Gaza – there's plenty of open space into which to evacuate non-combatants. But that's not what Hamas or UNRWA wanted. Because the real battlefield was in the media. Body counts are meaningless – but pack the requisite emotional wallop – when one side tries to maximize theirs as much as the other side tries to take the utmost precautions, when skewed "casualty" figures provided by the side with everything to gain from them are accepted unquestioningly without independent verification.
I view Palestine and Khaistan as two very different situations playing out under very different circumstances. To conflate the two is to muddy some already complex issues, and does a disservice to both.
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Khalistan will be jew free zone. Isrile is a terrorristic state that is destined to perish because it's foundation is evil.
Khalsa Fauj will avenge the torture of Palestinians and all other non-white Aryan peoples of the world.
pay no attention to jew genetic 'research' – there is a political agenda behind this
hindustani slaves better stop creating test tube terrorists – no tolerance in Khalistan for creating a race of demons. Proper procreation or sterilization – that's the choice.
NOthing more evil than designer babies and contraception.
notice how similar Palestinians look to PUnjabi's – there is Jatt genocide – why? because only Jatts possess the genes for truth. Khalistan Jindabad
RT is a reliable source of news or so it seems. Let us meditate upon Khalistani shaheeds 24/7 ie. waheguru
tragically Sikhs due to our commitment to ahimsa aka live and let live are seen as a non-issue and irrelevant – study dr elst w/dhyan and pyar
why is every day in knaida and mrika cold and boring – cause we are sequestered and in solitary confinement – life in 2015 an open air prison just like gaza strip
I must say I like slurrey where the slurs never stop flying 247
Mumbai indeed – modi/bodi putin bans gita Sikhs learn who is your friend – kill mind with NAM and just be
waheguru is all-merciful to all creatures at all times I suggest Sikhs write a poem
Before sikhs do anything they should first start by following our Gurus instrutions and san castism which is playing hell in our Society.Next abstain from politics in Gurudwaras,this is God's House and we not indulge inany underhand acts where the Gurudwara is concerned.Then we should avoid extragavent marriages,abstain from drugs.Once The Sikh's chacacter becomes good all Sikh problems will be solved
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