1.
Tourists pose
with heavy armed
IDF soldiers
In the old city
Jerusalem
In Ramallah, some of us met with leaders at the Popular Art Center. Their oral presentation focused on the Dabke, Palestine's national dance , an important art of cultural resistance.
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What’s so interesting to me is how different yet similar everyone on this delegation is. Different walks of life yet all on a path to seek justice. From various places and have experienced our share of difficult challenges. Old to young, we all yearn for the knowledge to soak up and hopefully relay to others back home.
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The wall felt the same as the one I held the day before. In Bethlehem the separation wall was made to protect me and separate me from people who looked different.
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Here generations of Palestinians live in refugee camps. Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem houses 60,000. Water and electricity are scarce. At home and abroad, Palestinians make the largest refugee population. Here "home" means heart-ache and resilience.
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The fact that we cannot return is not normal. The dilution of our community spaces and religious sites (and so much more) by social media and the media at large is not normal.
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Out here in Bethlehem at the Apartheid wall. Our struggle is international.
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