The Politics of Kurdish-Palestinian Solidarity

The Kurd has nothing but the wind To dwell in him and he in it To get addicted to him And he gets addicted to it To be saved from the adjectives of the land And of the things The wind is the testament Of one Kurd to another Kurd in exile. — Mahmoud Darwish When the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish wrote this poem more than twenty years ago, he was not claiming that the Kurdish and Palestinian experiences were identical. Rather, he was writing from a shared experience of displacement, exile,…