Leslie Feinberg speech at Aswat conference 2007
“Leslie Feinberg, a lesbian transgender and Jewish communist and a managing editor of Workers World, delivered the following solidarity statement to the first public conference of Aswat—Palestinian Gay Women—in Haifa on March 28, 2007. Bracketed words, phrases and sentences were delivered in Arabic. The 10th anniversary of comrade Leslie’s death will be marked on Nov. 15.”
[I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat.]
My first words in English must be why I am here, within the 1948 borders of the Israeli settler state. Why am I here when the colonial occupier set up an apartheid state in the name of Jewish people and co-opts the symbol of Judaism, stitching it into every uniform, flying it from every tank turret?
Why am I here when I remember, every day of my adult life, what happened to the people of Deir Yassin?"
Unfortunately, film material of hir speech has been removed from YT and Insta.
Text: https://www.workers.org/2024/06/79271/
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