In this country the only way a minority can get anything done is to make a little noise. - Jane Fonda

The trick is to be Zen about it. Winning is sometimes not the prize

Winning means some kind of approval of the Establishment which means people will more readily accept me, may be less frightened of me and other people who speak out

In the hyper-sensitized reality of the region in which any criticism of Israel is swiftly and often unfairly branded as anti-Semitic, it can become counterproductive to inflame rather than explain and this means to hear the narratives of both sides, to articulate the suffering on both sides, not just the Palestinians.