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“Israelis enjoy telling Palestinians they should be happy they live in ‘the only democracy’ in the region where they have the right to vote, but no one is under any illusion that voting comes with any actual political power or influence.”
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
“The impulse to allow, indeed to push, Jews to settle in Palestine was motivated also by British, and Western, Islamophobia.”
― On Palestine
― On Palestine
“Those unemployed black men I saw loitering all over Europe weren’t inherently lazy, but lost and low on confidence and opportunities, and their crime was that they were visible, unlike the black staff who cleaned the station and whose hard work had rendered them invisible.”
― Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
― Afropean: Notes from Black Europe
“The reason they do not accept the return has nothing to do with practicalities. It has to do with Jewish supremacy and Jewish exclusivity.”
― On Palestine
― On Palestine
“The human geography of Palestine as a whole was forceably transformed. The Arab character of the cities was effaced by the destruction of large sections, including the spacious park in Jaffa and community centres in Jerusalem. This transformation was driven by the desire to wipe out one nation’s history and culture and replace it with a fabricated version of another, from which all traces of the indegenous population were elided.”
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
― The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
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