How can I express both the heartbreak and happiness I feel since spending eight days in occupied Palestine? How can I convey the paradoxical emotions of anger and joy ? How do I depict the ugliness and the beauty? Talking about it , to anyone who will listen ,has helped. Discussing our shared experiences with my daughter has helped . Perhaps writing about what I saw, heard, learnt and felt will help. I hope so.

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“AFoPA’s BDS (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions) group has resisted this switch from global to local and sought ways to keep the Palestinian cause alive during restrictions, especially social distancing, which have meant an interruption to almost 10 years of weekly street actions in Adelaide.”