231 Quotes About Palestine

I know she is crying. Her tears fall on the wrong side, into the bottomless well inside her.

Goldstone has done terrible damage to the cause of truth and justice and the rule of law. He has poisoned Jewish-Palestinian relations, undermined the courageous work of Israeli dissenters and—most unforgivably—increased the risk of another merciless IDF assault.

There's a Palestine that dwells inside all of us, a Palestine that needs to be rescued: a free Palestine where all people regardless of color, religion, or race coexist; a Palestine where the meaning of the word "occupation" is only restricted to what the dictionary says rather than those plenty of meanings and connotations of death, destruction, pain, suffering, deprivation, isolation and restrictions that Israel has injected the word with.

ولا عجب أن أضحك، فشر البلايا ما يضحك، والضحك ضروري لنا، فهو فيتامين لمواصلة الحياة. وقد يضحك الإنسان في أوج مأساته، فكيف إذا كانت حياتنا مأساة أبدية؟!.

Well, I myself am a 100% atheist. And I am increasingly worried that the Israeli-Palestinian struggle, which dominates our entire life, is assuming a more and more religious character.

I want to see a flowering of Arab and Jewish cultures in a country without racism or anti-Semitism, without rich or poor or spat-upon: everyone beneath the vine and fig tree living in peace and unafraid. A homeland for each and every one of us between the mountains and the sea. A multilingual, multireligious, many-colored and -peopled land where the orange tree blooms for all. I will not surrender this vision for any lesser compromise.

مِن كوّة زنزانتي الصُّغرىأبصرُ أشجاراً تَبسمُ ليوسطوحاً يملأها أهليونوافذَ تبكي وتصليمن أجليمن كُوّةِ زنزانتي الصغرىأبصرُ زنزانَتَكَ الكُبرى

If it wasn't anti-Semitic to do it to South Africa, it's not anti-Semitic to do it to Israel.

If we do not know how to meaningfully talk about racism, our actions will move in misleading directions.