‘It’s different this time’: Palestinian Americans find support in US progressives

Progressive US lawmakers speak out against Israeli military as Palestinian activists say it is a shift from previous language

Eid al-Fitr marks the conclusion to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Usually cause for celebration, the holiday is sorrowful for Palestinian Americans, Muslim or otherwise, who are mourning amid the worst violence seen in the homeland in years.

I doesn't feel like a holiday for us," Amani al-Khatahtbeh, a Palestinian American author and founder of online magazine Muslim Girl, told the Guardian. These types of atrocities that are taking place really harm the collective diaspora."