Common Quote by Judith Butler

Most of the Jewish refugees, stripped of their considerable possessions, came to Israel. They were welcomed by the Jewish state. They were given shelter…

— Yitzhak Shamir

The exile is a singular, whereas refugees tend to be thought of in the mass ... What is implied in these nuances of social…

— Mary McCarthy

The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end…

— Mahmoud Abbas

“The Palestinians were deliberately forced into refugee camps by their fellow Muslims and not permitted to integrate in any way into the society of…

— Hal Lindsey

I have written about the dispossessed, immigrants, the condition of women who do not enjoy the same legal rights as men, the Palestinians who…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than…

— Dervla Murphy

“Refugees are not a monolith. Each journey is unique. Some arrive with dreams and aspirations; others carry the heavy burdens of trauma they long…

— Hagir Elsheikh

“The Palestinian refugee problem could have easily been solved in 1948, just as virtually every other refugee problem in the world has been; and…

— Dennis Prager

“But in our camp, his story was everyone’s story, a single tale of dispossession, of being stripped to the bones of one’s humanity, of…

— Susan Abulhawa

Many Palestinians have been living for decades in camps, disconnected from the environment in which they grew up, wallowing in poverty, in neglect, alienation,…

— Ehud Olmert

I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights of those…

— Judith Butler

“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews. Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of…

— Eric Hoffer