In her debut novel Ishmael’s Oranges, author Claire Hajaj talks about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in literary terms – and in personal ones as well.
She recently wrote an article for Newsweek entitled ‘My Jewish Mother, My Palestinian Father, and a Family Torn Apart.’
Claire’s parents Deanne & Mahmoud Hajaj at their wedding in 1969.
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Photos courtesy of Claire Hajaj.
Interesting that the quote from the Newsweek piece which the moderator shares mentions the bombs raining down on Gaza; she conveniently doesn’t mention those raining down on Israel.