Attaching faces and names to a movement can help a message resonate throughout media cycles, but it also leaves real people weighted with a new responsibility and level of attention that can become harmful.
from the Israeli Supreme Court that would make them protected tenants, instead of owners, calling it just another delay to plans to remove them from the homes for good.
When Adnan Barq picked up my Zoom call this summer, he was apologetic. He was walking through West Jerusalem and had lost track of time. “I rarely come here, but I needed to find a job,” Barq said. The 21-year old graduated this summer with his bachelors’ degree from Bethlehem University. “I was in a hotel asking if they need someone for reception. The receptionist was like, ‘You studied English literature and journalism and want to work as a receptionist?’” he said.
After our call, he’ll head back to East Jerusalem, to the Old City, to home. It feels like a military zone, he tells me, filled with surveillance. In the next week, he’ll make the short walk to Sheikh Jarrah to try to see a few friends and sit with the families who are protesting. But he’ll encounter a fence guarded by soldiers. They’ll turn him away, he said.
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