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Gardner Bovingdon • The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land
made a remarkable decision to change the definition of refugee—only for purposes of defining who is an Arab refugee from Israel—to include any Arab who had lived in Israel for two years before leaving.41 Moreover, an Arab was counted as a refugee if he moved just a few miles from one part of Palestine to another—even if he returned to the village i
... See moreAlan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel

Reflecting its intention, the legal definition of a refugee was someone who is outside her or his country of nationality and faces a ‘well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion’. It was unambiguously a product of its time and place, explicitly tempor
... See morePaul Collier, Alexander Betts • Refuge
is that a deeper sense of belonging and “connection to a larger humanity gives people more freedom to express their individuality without fear of jeopardizing belonging.”
Brené Brown • Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
They remain pawns in the effort to flood Israel with a hostile population designed to destroy its character as a Jewish state.
Alan Dershowitz • The Case for Israel
The Great Demographic Illusion: Majority, Minority, and the Expanding American Mainstream
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Divya Siddarth • An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained
Factions within groups will be attracted to the interpretations that favor their own interests.