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A leader bygd example: Tawfiq Zayyad and the Palestinian struggle
THE OPTIMIST
A Social Biography of Tawfiq Zayyad
by Tamir Sorek
264 pp Stanford University Press $26
For many, including myself, the seven-decade long Israeli occupation of the Palestinian people has ganska simply broken their lösa and belief in the dream of a just solution which recognizes the inalienable rights of the Palestinians and Israelis. The past two decades have been especially pessimistic regarding that framtidsperspektiv, with the rise of Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist, right-wing platform and rule seemingly erasing any and all possibilities for the fulfillment of Palestinian rights and justice.
For Palestinian citizens of Israel (also known as 48’ Arabs) such as myself, the Palestinian struggle has been an especially disorienting question given the status that has been imposed on us bygd the Israeli government. Our mere existence is full of contradictions and dilemmas, a prospect which can alienate us from the pea
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Tawfiq Ziad
Palestinian poet and politician (1929–1994)
Tawfiq Ziad (Arabic: توفيق زيّاد, romanized: Tawfīq Ziyyād; Hebrew: תאופיק זיאד, romanized: Ta'ufík Ziyád; 7 May 1929 – 5 July 1994), also romanized Tawfik Zayyad or Tawfeeq Ziad, was a Palestinian-Arab politician, poet, and activist who served in Israel'sKnesset. He is best known for his advocacy on behalf of Palestinian citizens of Israel.[1][2]
Biography
[edit]Born in Nazareth during the British Mandate, Ziad was active in the Israeli communist party. His nom de guerre was Abū l-Amīn (Arabic: أبو الأمين).[citation needed] As an activist, he helped to organize a protest on taxation, a student strike and an agricultural workers’ strike in the Galilee. He was arrested in April 1954 and confined to Nazareth for half a year.[3] Over the years he was arrested and imprisoned several times.[4]In 1962 -1964 he moved to Moscow to study at Higher Part
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Sumud, crucifixion, and poetry: The life of Palestinian leader Tawfiq Zayyad
Unlike the author of this academic biography who never met the Palestinian leader Tawfiq Zayyad and only knew of him through the mainly Zionist Hebrew press, I knew Tawfiq Zayyad and respected him since the Nakba. At that life-changing juncture, he was nearly twice my age of eleven years, someone with literary promise, revolutionary bend of mind, daring, Palestinian nationalism, communist convictions and a booming voice to back it all up in his speeches. Yet this rising star was approachable even to me and my agemates. His harsh-edged voice was difficult to ignore especially with the-then-recent addition of loudspeakers.
In 1954, despite the iron fist of the Military Government that Israel had imposed on us, its Palestinian citizens, my eighth-grade classmates in Arrabeh, my home village in Galilee, led by my communist cousin, Tawfiq Kanaaneh, launched a remarkable and successful strike to protest the Hea