Drop Bear on Nostr: [begin 🧵] This was written in the late 1980s, but not published until 2022. "Like ...
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This was written in the late 1980s, but not published until 2022.
"Like most of the exiled community, I am not from the West Bank or Gaza. I was born in West Jerusalem in a family home now occupied by a European Jewish family (or families); my mother was born in Nazareth and grew up there and in Safad, which have been Israeli towns since 1948. I have had an extravagantly fortunate life, but literally every single member of my family, maternal and paternal, has been a refugee adversely and in several cases catastrophically affected by the loss of property, citizenship, and political rights attendant upon the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948;"
https://jewishcurrents.org/an-open-letter-to-american-jewish-intellectuals
#IsraelPalestineConflict #Palestine #Israel
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This was written in the late 1980s, but not published until 2022.
"Like most of the exiled community, I am not from the West Bank or Gaza. I was born in West Jerusalem in a family home now occupied by a European Jewish family (or families); my mother was born in Nazareth and grew up there and in Safad, which have been Israeli towns since 1948. I have had an extravagantly fortunate life, but literally every single member of my family, maternal and paternal, has been a refugee adversely and in several cases catastrophically affected by the loss of property, citizenship, and political rights attendant upon the destruction of Palestinian society in 1948;"
https://jewishcurrents.org/an-open-letter-to-american-jewish-intellectuals
#IsraelPalestineConflict #Palestine #Israel
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