Lessons from Sri LankaI belong to the ethnic majority Sinhala community of Sri Lanka, though I’m from a Christian religious minority. It cannot go unsaid that Palestinians are perhaps the largest stateless community in the world. The crimes of the Israeli state have ratcheted up under its current far-right government. Statelessness exists because of state violence. And State violence is easier to perpetrate (and justify) against stateless people.

Source: New York Times October 18, 2023 00:08 UTC