The Message

But virtues should be signaled, and the signalers should act to make their virtues manifest.

Buried in the claim is another notion—that the worth of a people is defined by their possession of a homeland incorporated as a state. The Palestinians, lacking such a state, had no right to the land and perhaps no rights at all.

The first word written on the warrant of plunder is Africa.

“What wounds you most,” writes Darwish, “is that ‘there’ is so close to ‘here.’

Making a charge according to the law of those you indict is a dangerous business.

Mary didn’t teach civics or current events. She taught writing. Advanced Placement English, to be precise.

I don’t think I ever, in my life, felt the glare of racism burn stranger and more intense than in Israel.

All told, from 1974 to 1993, total annual exports from Tel Aviv to Pretoria averaged $600 million a year. Through all those critical years, Israel was not just an ally of South Africa; it was the very arsenal of apartheid.

race is a species of power and nothing else.