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In the Face of Idle Pens Behind Pseudonyms: Enough Fooling Around with the Kurdish Cause
Some racist writers, particularly those hiding behind pseudonyms, still lurk in the spaces of certain Arab websites, not to enrich the discussion or enhance the dialogue, but to corrupt it with hired venom, reproducing a sick rhetoric that targets the Kurds, their identity, and their cause, often drenched in a Ba'athist or Turanian tone, and sometimes in a hardened chauvinistic religious discourse.
These individuals do not attack ideas or debate arguments; instead, they pounce on any Kurdish voice with truncated rationality, employing responses that reproduce the most degraded outputs produced by totalitarian regimes: accusations, treason, and the denial of the other. Their tools are not pens; rather, they are distorted copies of the speeches of the occupying regimes of Kurdistan and their racist parties, repeated mindlessly, as if they are assigned a task whose meaning they do not comprehend.
It is pitiful that these "responses" appear exclusively under the articles of Kurdish writers or those who write fairly about them, as if someone has been officially or indirectly tasked with the mission of distorting everything related to the Kurdish movement or discrediting any opinion that contradicts the official narrative of the regimes that thrive on denying and marginalizing the Kurds.
However, what these people do not realize is that times have changed. The Kurdish people are no longer a footnote relegated to the margins of maps of the East; they have become a focal point in the major transformations taking place in the Middle East, demographically, politically, economically, and culturally.
With a population exceeding seventy million, a geographical presence at the heart of regional equations, and political and military powers that have become active partners in major changes, the Kurds are no longer defined by what is said about them, but by what they create.
From here we say:
The Kurdish people have the right to ally with those who share mutual interests and respect, whether with major powers when possible, or with the Jews—Israel, or with Arab peoples, or with Armenians, or even with Turks and Persians, or with any party that sees the Kurds as partners rather than subordinates. Relationships should be built on self-awareness, not on distorted historical mandates.
As for those who repeatedly echo accusations of secession, or threaten with accusations of treason, or think they can sway public consciousness with worn-out terms of betrayal, we say to them:
Time has surpassed you, and what you do today only increases your isolation while fortifying the Kurds' resolve and legitimacy in defending their existence and cause.
Attempts to confuse the Kurdish struggle and question their alliances will not diminish their status, because those who defend their rights do not need justification from anyone, and those who shed blood for their dignity are not bothered by the barks of those lurking behind comment sections.
The Kurdish cause today does not need justification; it is in a phase of building, and those who do not see that should let history answer for them.
As for you, who make yourselves cheap tools in service of regimes that are gasping their last breaths, know that you do not harm the Kurds, but you harm yourselves, leaving your names, if you have names, on lists of moral and intellectual disgrace.
We are here...
We will not respond to you with insults but will return you to the dustbins of history from which your rhetoric was born, and we will continue to write, not to convince you, but to awaken another consciousness that is still alive.
Dr. Mahmoud Abbas
