Through Qalandiya on the Third Friday of Ramadan: A Story of Struggle and Hope

By Tamar Fleishman

I am not a just woman, but I do not cooperate with the state’s crimes. I feel great shame about what is being done in my name, both in Gaza and the West Bank, in these dark times.

On the way to Qalandiya, the world was wrapped in fog. I wondered if they – those who knew they would likely be denied passage, those who anticipated contempt and even violence,…