sumud
Steadfastness, as a Palestinian value; steadfast Palestinianness and resistance.
uncountable
a Palestinian anticolonial construct promoted by Palestinians living under the colonial order, which constantly subjects Palestinians to arrest, […] The discourse of sumud is the praxis of struggle […] Sumud embodies a radical alterity […] Sumud is the refusal to confess or reveal secrets to interrogators […]
Meari (2015) [...] introduc[es] the discourse of sumud. Sumud is
Where it comes from
From Arabic صُمُود (ṣumūd, “steadfastness; firmness, resistance”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sumud (CC BY-SA 4.0).