Patty

“I don’t know if we’ll ever be best friends again, but I’ve decided it’s not worth it to be bitter over the past. Some friendships bend. Some break. And some, if you’re lucky, can even be rebuilt.”
― Alissa DeRogatis, How to Find Love in the Cereal Aisle

“The answer to such bigotry should be clear: Americans are not responsible for foreign governments or organizations just because they have a common ancestry. There was nothing inherent in being German American in the 1910s that made you a supporter of the kaiser’s Germany and nothing inherent in being Japanese American in the 1940s that made you a supporter of imperial Japan. Similarly, there is nothing inherent in being Chinese American today that makes you favor the People’s Republic of China or in being Palestinian American that makes you approve of Hamas. Supporting foreign governments or organizations is a political choice, not an intrinsic expression of one’s ethnic or religious identity.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

“In 2022, two political scientists, Eitan Hersh and Laura Royden, published the most comprehensive study ever of the relationship between Americans’ views about politics and their views about Jews. They found that “antisemitic views are far more common on the right than on the left.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning

“Only by erasing the names and experiences of ordinary Palestinians can they be made authors of their own expulsion. We evade the harsh realities of 1948 just as we evade the end of the book of Esther. In this way, Israel’s creation is made to fit the script.”
― Peter Beinart, Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning