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“Every time I was told I’d humanized the Palestinians, I would have to suppress the question it invoked: What had they been before?” says the poet, psychologist and professor Hala Alyan, reflecting on her experiences as a Palestinian American. In this audio essay, Ms. Alyan documents how being Palestinian in America is an exercise in auditioning for empathy. (A full transcript of this audio essay will be available midday on the Times website.)
Persons: I’d humanized, , Hala Alyan Organizations: Times Locations: Palestinian, America
I’d had the privilege of a youth — adolescence and young adulthood — in countries where being Palestinian was fairly common. The task of the Palestinian, we’ve seen in the past two weeks, is to audition for empathy and compassion. In the past couple of weeks, I’ve watched Palestinian activists, lawyers, professors get baited and interrupted on air, if not silenced altogether. What is the word of a Palestinian against a machinery that investigates itself, that absolves itself of accused crimes? Diasporically or not, being Palestinian is the quintessential disrupter: It messes with a curated, modified tape.
Persons: I’ve, I’d, hadn’t, we’ve, they’ve, dehumanized, You’ve, I’d humanized, Al Jazeera, “ It’s, it’s, infographics, I’m Organizations: NBC Locations: United States, Kuwait, Palestine, Manhattan, Gaza, Philadelphia, Las Vegas, I’m, Palestinian
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