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As my family shelters in Tel Aviv, I’m unsettled that progressive Americans aren’t speaking up for Palestinians | Opinion

The silence on Palestine by American liberals and progressives is so pervasive that there is a term for it: “progressive except Palestine.”

A worshipper prays during the Laylat al-Qadr, or the night of destiny, in the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City Saturday, May 8, 2021.
A worshipper prays during the Laylat al-Qadr, or the night of destiny, in the holy fasting month of Ramadan, in the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City Saturday, May 8, 2021.Read moreMahmoud Illean / AP