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Palestinian protestors hold banners and national flags during a protest against a scheduled meeting between Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and the then Israeli Vice Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz in the West Bank city of Ramallah, on July 1, 2012, i nthe second day of protest against the visit. (Photo: Issam Rimawi/APA Images)

Abdaljawad Omar on the decade of youth movements that attempted to reshape Palestinian politics: “I choose to believe that despite all that has passed, and all that remains impassable, the relics of an obscure ‘we’ endures. There is at least a ‘we’ that lives within me, until perhaps another ‘we’ emerges yet again.”

The racial profiling is rampant before your eyes. I sauntered through Damascus Gate at midnight. The young Palestinian just behind me got stopped by soldiers demanding his i.d. card. Abuse and invective are normal here. Just look at the picture the racist Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir posted of the Palestinian politician Ahmad Tibi wheeling a suitcase in Ben Gurion airport. “Great news. Leave and don’t come back.”