Falastini Spirit: Broad, Inclusive, yet Beautiful

December 2025 Bulletin

If you’ve ever felt less Palestinian than your great-grandparents, more Palestinian than your cousin in the diaspora, or wondered if there are different grades or levels to being Palestinian, this bulletin is for you. And if you identify as a “Palestinian by choice,” it’s definitely for you. Here, we explore what true belonging means and how culture and identity shape one another.

No fixed formula or checklist awaits. Yet it’s a mixed bag of language, traditions, flag, anthem, currency, kufiyya (and watermelon), embroidery, folklore, art, cuisine, strong connection to the land or the cause, or the Question. And so, we harvest a collective strength; the Falastini Spirit.

This bulletin deepened understanding, broadened inclusion, and above all, fortified cultural resistance against erasure, manipulation, and canceling; be it annihilation, gaslighting, shadowing, silencing, or denial of existence.

At Scene48, the journey of Falastini Spirit unfolds as a kaleidoscope: prism projecting variant patterns of myriad Palestinian lives, yet one unbreakable light rooted in sumud and ancestral soil. No mere record of threats, this bulletin affirms profound roots and defiant spirit, sustaining a people against assaults. Falastini Spirit is existence reclaimed, unified, and eternal.