Al-Khalil, or Hebron, is so famous for making people understand how deeply entrenched apartheid is in Israeli occupation i even met a random white guy that was part of PSL who was like "I studied arabic in Hebron and it was so sad there's a metal fence separating the top floor and the bottom floor of some neighborhoods because israeli settlers would throw trash and waste down on the Palestinians on the bottom floor" and this is before I even told him I was from Al-Khalil he just volunteered that information when I asked him how he started advocating for Palestine. My dad and I always "joke" about how for years before, people would be shocked about how terrible the situation for Palestinians is in Hebron and it was a surefire way to radicalize anyone as long as you take them through the perspective of the Palestinians. All the stories you hear about Al-Khalil are things you hear straight out of Jim Crow America and that's not an exaggeration. So these people who like to talk about "how there's no apartheid" in Israel by ignoring the occupation of the Westbank and how Palestinians within the Green Line are subject to segregated neighborhoods and schools should not be taken seriously.
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