Over the last year, Leah Hager Cohen has attended weekly Zoom seminars about Israel and Palestine. After a recent seminar, she was compelled to make a donation to a Palestinian arts organization, only to have her transaction held up. What she learned next made her think more deeply about individual responsibility in a free society.
Palestinian children play with a kite next to a portion of Israel's separation barrier in the West Bank refugee camp of Aida in Bethlehem, Thursday, June 10, 2010.
Let me back up. For the past year or so, I’ve been attending weekly Zoom calls about Israel and Palestine, hosted by the journalist. Although I grew up among social justice activists, my involvement in this particular area is more recent, spurred on by a daughter who works on these issues, family members who live in Israel , and a mid-life journey into my own Jewish identity., a cultural center in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, Palestine.
Palestinian youth play soccer in a field next to Israel's separation barrier in Aida Refugee camp, in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Wednesday, March 8, 2023. , a 5013 organization through which I made a donation. In the message field, I thanked the founder by name. A minute later I was notified my payment had not gone through. Two days later, a second email informed me PayPal had placed a “limitation” on my account.
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