But today’s apartheid system has all but ensured that we have no civil interaction with Jews. And so, it blew my mind to be meeting, for the first time ever, Jewish Israelis who had traveled to our village, in defiance of their own government’s policies, to stand in solidarity with us. They condemned the occupation with their words and their actions, and they fervently advocated in support of Palestinian rights. They weren’t simply allies in our struggle. Many of them, like Jonathan, Sarit, and Yifat, grew so close to us that my parents considered them some of their best friends. Jonathan
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