Simon Deng

December 2025:I was born in a village in southern Sudan, growing up without knowing that there was any other kind of society in any other part of the country—or any other religion. As a toddler, I didn’t know what Arabs were or that I, as an African Shilluk, looked different from them. But, by the time I learned how to speak, the first thing we children learned as part of becoming people who know the world was running from the Arabs.

July 2025:Hamas is made up of the same people, acting on the same colonizing and imperial motivations, who enslaved me and murdered 4 million of my black brothers and sisters.