Kurdistan and Palestine
Source: everythingispolitical.com
- Kurdish and Palestinian struggles share roots in colonial partition that fractured both peoples across borders drawn without their consent, yet face drastically unequal international support.
- Both populations are among the world's largest stateless groups, but regional powers cynically support Palestinian statehood while opposing Kurdish independence for geopolitical gain.
- Palestinian revolutionary Leila Khaled explicitly connects the two struggles, recognizing them as inseparable fights against occupation and displacement.
The article examines why Kurdish and Palestinian struggles are often treated as separate or competing when they actually stem from the same colonial legacy. Both peoples were divided by the Sykes-Picot Agreement and subsequent colonial decisions that prioritized Western interests over indigenous self-determination, leaving them fractured across multiple nation-states and denied basic political recognition.