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The implicit accusation is that certain people are incapable of responding to their mistreatment with grace, with patience, with love, and that this incapacity, not any external injustice, is responsible for the misery inflicted upon them.

More people will starve to death because of this decision ... taken by people who will never be held responsible for any of it, who will live out the rest of their lives in total comfort. And should some activist interrupt their night out at a restaurant to show them pictures of the children they've helped kill, they will be deeply offended. Civilized people shouldn't behave so rudely.

The Frankfurt Book Fair decides to cancel a ceremony in which the Palestinian writer Adania Shibli was to be presented with an award for her novel Minor Detail. ... An academic article by Rabea Eghbariah on the Nakba set to be published in the Harvard Law Review is pulled at the last minute. ... A memo from the standards editor at the New York Times, leaked to the Intercept, cautions against using the word Palestine.

Their entire lives turned to rubble and all of it preemptively justified in the name of fighting terrorists who are terrorists by default on account of having been killed.

One remarkable difference between the modern Western conservative and their liberal counterpart is that the former will gleefully sign their name on the side of the bomb, while the latter will just sheepishly initial it.

For the crime of reporting in a way the Israeli government disapproves of, Al Jazeera correspondent Wael Dahdouh sees his family summarily executed in a missile strike. He continues reporting the next day, Shortly thereafter he himself is wounded. He continues reporting the next day.

I finally got a new library loan and just started from the beginning. This time I shan't get distracted and be sure to finish! It's distressingly good.

"Should one party propose stripping immigrants of all rights and the other propose stripping them of only some rights, the intellectually rigorous thing to do is to consider that what's best is stripping immigrants of most rights. To compromise."

Six years earlier, on a Tuesday in September, I woke up in my basement apartment in Kingston, Ontario, and realized I had slept in- Not so flagrantly as to make it impossible to make it to my first college class...

Eyes skimming along the words, I wondered, How do people recall their life with such clarity? I couldn't tell you if I slept in on a given day-- Something traumatic is about to happen isn't it? Oh. Right.

And so we left; have been leaving ever since.

Your papers, he said.
My father pulled out his paperwork. Without reading it, the soldier tore it in half and threw it on the floor.
Your papers, he repeated.