Israel/Palestine

I have a rabidly pro-Farrakhan cousin who is so anti-Israel it makes my head spin. He has been throwing this at me for months, and I finally decided to read up on it.

The Israeli-Palestinian situation is extremely ugly. And most Americans have no idea. Heck, most Americans don't know much about anything that happens in the rest of the world.

But while I find that there are some Americans who are pro-Israel, and some Americans who are anti-Semitic, there doesn't seem to be a space for simply being pro-Palestinian.

I have always believed that the Palestinians got screwed. And that no one sticks up for them. I hate this, but don't know what to do about it. Oh, and I don't think other Middle Eastern countries are "sticking up for Palestine" by hating Israel and wanting to destroy it.

Who champions the Palestinians?