The cost of conscience: I lost friends for defending Palestinians | Israel-Palestine conflict

I have written a lot about the heart-piercing trials and tragedies of Palestinians for a long time.

I have treated every word of every column that has appeared on this page, devoted to Palestine’s precarious fate and the indefatigable souls who refuse to abandon it, as an obligation and a duty.

It is the obligation and duty of writers – who are privileged to reach so many people in so many places – to expose injustice and give pointed expression to gratuitous suffering.

I have made it…