Soft brown eyes flicked furtively towards the guard鈥檚 room, then back to the ripe luscious strawberry she had carefully placed on the table鈥檚 edge. She waited for the guard鈥檚 laconic indifference to blend into the certainty of distraction, then secreted the treasure in her loose pocket.
鈥淔or my friend,鈥 she confided, while a hint of defiance momentarily lit up eyes that for most of our visit had spilled out a lifetime of sorrow and loss. 鈥淢y pregnant friend.鈥
Victoria Martin-Iverson
Jewish Identity & Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel
By David Landy
Zed Books, 2011,
272 pp., $49.95
Just over a year ago, I attended the launch of the radically Zionist 鈥淔riends of Israel鈥 (supporters of the state of Israel as an exclusively 鈥淛ewish鈥 state) at the charismatic Christian Victory Life church in Perth. I did so openly as a member of Friends of Palestine.
I sat with my Palestinian scarf draped around my Jewish neck and listened nervously to more than two hours of speeches.