February 12, 2025
“I Left Palestine, Not Israel”: On Edward Said and the Power of Words

When Israeli officials routinely asked prominent Palestinian-American scholar Edward Said when exactly he left Israel after birth, since his US passport showed that he was born in Jerusalem, he responded by correcting them: he left Palestine, not Israel, in 1947. The word “Palestine” was still a stranger on the tongue in Said’s time…
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