“when I came to Israel for the first time I felt deep belonging...

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    when I came to Israel for the first time I felt deep belonging that I had never felt in my life because both parts of my identity in Israel can actually coexist just fine and I can go to SCH and on my way I can hear the call to prayer and I see people who are wearing the hijab in the street like my mother who by the way also wore the hijab because of pressure because Islamization in this region has meant that women have had to cover over the years.  It's not necessarily always by choice but in Israel you have a space where you see literally the history of the Middle East of North Africa with all of its minorities with all of its manifestations and histories condensed into one teeny tiny country the last stronghold of the pluralistic narrative of the Middle East that we're losing and we're losing because of fascist, populist, discriminatory, oppressive, brutal ideologies.”

 
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