If you’re not able to be absorbed into the country where you’re a refugee you’re a permanent refugee. I think a lot of Europeans and Americans when we hear the word refugee we are assuming the assimilation paradigm of our democracies, which that in itself is a draconian paradigm.

But if your options are occupation or blockade, it’s like this limbo land.

This type of political erasure is unfathomable, even to most liberals in favor of Palestine—I would argue because of our failure to contextualize what a refugee is.

Location, place, context and receiving country determines what “refugee” signifies as a mode of existence.

Westerners don’t have a paradigm for this.

A western refugee, even a Palestinian refugee in the West, is not a Palestinian refugee in Palestine.