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Qalandiya checkpoint. A Palestinian woman throws stones at Israeli border policemen during a rally ahead of International Woman's Day, at Qalandiya checkpoint near the West Bank city of Ramallah March 7, 2015. Photo by Shadi Hatem (c) APA Images

Palestinian solidarity was winning the U.S. discourse. Now that’s over. An American who supports nonviolent actions reflects on the violence and trauma in Palestine.

A Palestinian woman walks along Israel's separation barrier and the Jewish settlement of Beit El behind it near the West Bank city of Ramallah. (Photo: Shadi Hatem/APA Images)

75 years after the Nakba, Palestine-Israel is one state under Israeli sovereignty but unequal. The struggle for a more equitable and democratic future will be long and ferociously resisted. That does not make it any less worth fighting for.

Logo for the American Jewish Committee survey of millennial American Jews.

Younger American and Israeli Jews have starkly different attitudes from each other in a new survey by the American Jewish Committee– 45 percent of US Jews say that it’s appropriate for them to influence Israeli policy while 70 percent of Israeli Jews say, Stay out of our business. Nearly half of the Americans don’t feel very connected to Israel and 22.5 percent believe that there should be one “bi-national” state in Israel and Palestine.