We are in the third month of the catastrophic U.S.-backed Israeli bombardment of Gaza and the ensuing tsunami of anti-Palestinian repression that has swept the country.
Jinan Chehade, who was to be one of the only visible Arab Muslim woman associates at the white shoe law firm Foley and Lardner LLP nationwide, had a job offer rescinded because of her social media posts in support of Palestinian rights. But when I spoke to her, she was resolute and unswerving—she asserted, “The cost of my silence would have been much greater than the cost of speaking out.”
Jinan’s story demonstrates an unsilenceable truth: that the machine of anti-Palestinian repression is failing.
