Erika: It re-humanized Israeli soldiers in a way that I had lost
Erika is a member of the Progressive Jewish Alliance, our undergraduate hosts at Harvard. She shares with us here why she is personally thankful for the soldiers’ work and presence in Israel and the States:
“As someone who went to the West Bank this summer and lived in Israel, I was really glad because for it actually re-humanized Israeli soldiers in a way that I had lost, having to go in and out of the West Bank every day, after being very bitter about the way I was treated as well as Palestinianss. After going through this exhibit, it was really interesting to see what institutionalized occupation does to normal human beings in that their not in and of themselves bad people…it definitely allowed me to humanize the people involved in it.”
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