Daniel M. Lavery
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Vera said that?
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PEN was only ever taken seriously bc it had money, not bc it had legitimacy. The Zionism made those pre-existing conditions impossible to ignore. Further proof that, per Noura Erakat,
“Palestinians illuminate the colonial nature of the rest of the world.”
The solidarity among nominees for the Jean Stein Book Award is particularly beautiful to see in light of the late Stein’s own solidarity with the people of Palestine, which, as her friend Philip Weiss wrote, extended to a decades-long personal boycott of “Israel.”