
Samah Salaime
I lost my Palestinian flag on the March of Return
I went down to the Negev to participate in this year's Nakba Day events. The fact that it's the 68th year and little has changed depressed me; the sense of unity and the bubbly optimism of some of the activists encouraged me. "I will not come with you to the march!" my adolescent son exclaimed. "I'll sit at home and watch it. Wasn't our home taken away from us during the Nakba? So here. You go, and take your little boy who doesn't understand anything, and leave me alone." "Don't you support the right of return?" I ran after him…
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