Localizing each community or "status" is meant to undermine a connected NATIONAL movement for liberation.
1/ Love under Israeli apartheid.
Israel segregates Palestinians across different legal statuses to divide & rule:
- Citz. of Israel
- Res. of Jerusalem
- West Bank / Gaza
- Refugee/diaspora (+ foreign passports)
The category you belong to impacts who you can be with.
Localizing each community or "status" is meant to undermine a connected NATIONAL movement for liberation.
Israel doesn't allow Palestinian refugees/diaspora to visit their homeland, let alone live in Palestine with a partner.
But any Jewish person anywhere in the world can return and live as they please.
Israel has made it almost impossible to change your legal status in order to be with someone if they are from another legal category.
Suffocation through bureaucracy, revoking residency, outlawing places to live, refusal to grant visas or just physical separation are some of those ways.
Families are forced to separate or move abroad.