‘A kind of tribalism’: US supporters of Israel and Palestine fail to admit suffering of other side

People gathered for a rally in support of Palestine face a rally across the street in support of Israel, near Times Square in New York. Each side in the conflict is pushing its narrative hard in the US, often ignoring wrongdoings by both Israel and Hamas Aziz Abu Sarah knows what it’s like to have been so entrenched in his views that to give an inch, even to acknowledge someone else’s suffering, feels like a betrayal. And now the Palestinian peace activist, who works to get American Muslims and Jews listening to each other’s perspectives, is seeing the problem […]

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