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Ahmed Alnaouq, a Palestinian from Gaza whose brother was killed by Israeli forces, explains what motivated him to pair up with an Israeli journalist, Yuval Abraham, and co-launch a project that brings first-person narratives from Palestinians to an Israeli audience: “Translating the stories published by We Are Not Numbers into Hebrew offers unfiltered content straight from Gaza to all Israelis willing to try to understand.”
Dear Mr. Avraham Burg:
I woke up to news earlier this month that I had to read several times because I was not sure at first if I was understanding it correctly: You had announced your plan to submit an affidavit to the Jerusalem District Court, renouncing your registration as a Jew with Israel’s Interior Ministry. In your statement, you said your conscience does not allow you to be classified as a member of a Jewish nation, because it implies “belonging to the group of the masters.”
This is a bold, courageous and risky action for any Israeli. But you are not just any Israeli: You chaired the Jewish Agency (1995-1999), were speaker of the 15th Knesset (1999-2003), and served as Israel’s acting president between the resignation of Ezer Weizman and the election of Moshe Katsav to that post. As a writer for Haaretz said, “No resumé could be more Zionist and Jewish.”
Israel completely leaves out Palestinians under its occupation in its highly successful COVID-19 vaccination drive, already covering over a quarter of its population since mid-December.
Palestinian refugees during the Nakba. (Photo: Wikimedia)
The following open letter to Antony Blinken was first published by We Are Not Numbers. Blinken is expected to soon be confirmed as U.S. President Joe Biden’s secretary of state. When accepting his nomination, Blinken recalled his stepfather Samuel Pisar, who was one of 900 children in his school in Bialystok, Poland, but the only one to survive the Holocaust after four years in concentration camps. He went on to recall Pisar’s escape from a death march in Nazi-controlled Germany, after which the boy was rescued by a Black U.S. soldier. Just before being lifted onto a tank, Pisar “fell to his knees, and said the only three words he knew in English that his mother had taught him before the war: “God bless America.” Later in his confirmation hearing Blinken also said the U.S.-Israel relationship was “sacrosanct” and the U.S. would keep its embassy in Jerusalem, which he called the capital of Israel.