A child plays by the fenced-in house of al-Ghirayim family between the Jewish settlement of Givon Hahadasha and the West Bank village of Beit Ijza, north of Jerusalem, Dec. 11, 2016. Mick Tsikas/AAP/PA Images. All rights reserved.My latest encounter with international Zionism was in Paris, March 10, following the screening of the documentary film “Derrière les Fronts” at Cinema 3 Luxembourg.
I was there to participate in the debate that followed the screening as I appear prominently in the film itself. But immediately after one of the spectators asked a genuine and sincere question about the psychopathologies that I encounter as a clinician in Palestine, a friend of Israel took the microphone to occupy the occasion with a very long, hateful, and chauvinistic speech about “Palestinian paranoia” and “the Arab’s natural violence and racism” – until finally the audience could no longer tolerate his diatribe and a loud collective outcry arose demanding he let someone else speak.
This person’s name, gender, color, religion and appearance are less important than his role, which is to arrive at every possible time and place and to any activity that gives recognition to Palestinians.
