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Podcast: North Star with Ellin Bessner
Episode: [In Good Faith] How a Palestinian and a Jewish Canadian are trying to depolarize the country
Description: This episode originally aired on The CJN's peace-building podcast, In Good Faith. To subscribe and hear more, visit thecjn.ca/faith.
Mainstream Jews, who support Israel and consider themselves Zionists, feel like they are under attack. When they see people wearing keffiyehs and storefronts stamped with Palestinian flags, they hear an implicit attack: "You are not welcome here."
But for Palestinians, watermelons and keffiyehs aren't anti-Jewish icons at all: they're symbols of national pride.Â
How can everyday Canadian Jews and Muslims even start a conversation when words and symbols have such different meanings t...