A word on how I write humanizing stories of Palestinians and other victims of grave injustice.


A few questions keep popping up, so here is my attempt at explaining why I do what I do, which is regularly releasing long stories on a platform designed for 140 characters. First, since age 17 I’ve read 1000+ books, 1061 to be exact (I can provide a list). Add four years studying the Russian classics at univerisity. Great basis for writing dark material. I don’t consider myself to be an avid reader, just a fairly steady one. I am cursed with unusual sensitivity and empathy. If I sit with someone I feel exactly what they are feeling, especially the stuff they can’t verbalize. I have been to Palestine, I’ve visited half a dozen hospitals in the West Bank and listened to people sitting in waiting rooms.

Every day several hours go into monitoring what’s happening to Palestine and the region in general. I published several books and plays in Dutch and Slovak before I switched to writing in English only. Everything I write in these humanizing stories is based on what I know about trauma and how people behave under stress, after terrible loss or how people becoming savages fighting for a cause they know in their bones to be wrong, like in these stories, zionism. Many of my stories are about the American Civil War, which you may not have discovered, since the topic is not particularly hot. The second American Civil War will be a very hot topic though.

Jokes aside, I in no way use AI for these stories. I think it’s obvious there is a distinct voice in all of them and I doubt very much AI can create a story that can make so many of you cry. As far as I know AI programmes avoid the kind of cruelty or even slurs some of the people in my stories employ. One would be hard pressed to use AI to create these. Plus, in many instances I get so passionate that I get clumsy, with AI every sentence would be 100 percent polished.
Are these stories accounts of specific events? No, but they are all based on what we have all seen Israelis do and how much Palestinians suffer.

What I set out to do originally is try to construct what goes on in the mind of for example a four year old child that gets injured and eventually dies in a blast (One Day In the Life Of Badr).

I write because I feel powerless if I don’t. I write about all these crimes and all this pain because I don’t want them to be mere statistics who perish in sterile sounding ‘strikes’. I write to give them faces, hobbies, to show you they loved, they care, they nurtured family members, hugged their kids, hoped, feared and struggled to survive in the worst man made hell on earth. Most of all I want to do what I can to restore their dignity when zionists rob them of everything else.
It means the world to me that so many of you read them, share them and contemplate the immense horror these people go through on a daily basis.

Everything in these stories is consistent with documented Israeli practice and the unbelievably strong solidarity, endurance and courage among Palestinians, the Libanese and the Iranians, and everyone else directly targeted by Israeli oppression. Last but not least I also wish to honor everyone who has risked career trouble, backlash, never ending infantile insults, etc to speak out and defend the victims of what is obviously a live streamed holocaust 2.0 you are not allowed to condemn, because the victims of the previous holocaust have been given a juicy license to kill cause the existence of their little voracious colony serves western interests.

In the picture a fraction of the books that inspired me, with on top some of the books, comic books and plays I wrote myself, if anyone wonders if am new to writing.
You will keep seeing new stories and I hope to keep touching your hearts. Knowing there are people like you out there is, apart from my son, the only thing that keeps me sane.
Peace to all of you.