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The Case for Palestinian Pragmatism
Rigid maximalist demands won’t deliver the future Palestinians
desperately need.
By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
A photo collage stitching together two photos, one of a person waving a Palestinian flag and the other of a person waving an Israeli flag
Illustration by Akshita Chandra / The Atlantic. Sources: Andrew Harnik /
Getty; David Dee Delgado / Getty.
March 15, 2025
A photo collage stitching together two photos, one of a person waving a Palestinian flag and the other of a person waving an Israeli flag
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Not long ago, I spoke at a university in New Jersey. I told students
about the 33 members of my family killed in the Israeli bombardment of
Gaza. I described the horrors afflicting my homeland, made a plea for Palestinian independence, and decried the extremism of the government of
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
I also said that Hamas’s kidnapping of Israeli women, elderly people,
and children as hostages, and the killing of innocent civilians, were atrocities that did not represent Palestinian values and could easily be condemned without minimizing Palestinian rights or legitimate grievances.
Agitators affiliated with Students for Justice in Palestine stood
outside the lecture hall shouting. They called me a “traitor” and
yelled, “Free Palestine!”
How did we get here? How did student activists in New Jersey who claim
to represent Palestinians and to care about Gazans make even me, a Gazan American who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for
humanitarian projects in Gaza, their enemy? The so-called pro-Palestine movement has no space for a Palestinian who opposes Hamas’s terrorism
and promotes a future of coexistence with Israelis.
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