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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
When the world repeatedly tries to tell you that your country doesn’t exist, that your mere identity is a political statement, or that supporting your own people is an act of anti-Semitism, each of these instances become part of crushing weight, telling every bone in your body to break and give in to the pressures of erasing your identity and forgetting your roots. For nearly thirty years of my life, I gave into that weight, and I erased every part of my Palestinian identity in an effort to fit in. Today, thanks to the power of the collective Palestinian diaspora, I’m doing work to undo that. …