Nothing makes liberals abandon their values, or their courage, like mentioning Palestine
by Arwa Mahdawi from US news | The Guardian on (#5X1J8)
Like Gigi Hadid, my dad is a Palestinian refugee, and I've been harassed for suggesting Palestinians deserve human rights
What starts with P" ends with E" and is too terrifying a word for many people to so much as mention? Palestine", of course! Simply uttering the P-word in a vaguely sympathetic way can be enough to elicit bad faith accusations of antisemitism. The topic has become so loaded that some people seemingly prefer to pretend Palestine and Palestinians don't exist and just ignore the issue altogether. Nothing makes liberals abandon their progressive values, or their courage, like someone mentioning Palestine.
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