Aida Touma-Sliman

Aida Touma-Sliman is a Palestinian member of the Israeli Knesset, representing Hadash on the Joint List. She was the chair of the Knesset's Standing Committee on Women and Gender Equality. A leading activist for feminist causes and is the founder and past head of the Arab feminist group Women Against Violence. She was previously the editor in chief of the newspaper Al-Ittihad.

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Palestinian and Israeli residents of the coastal city of Jaffa near Tel Aviv, raise placards as they take part in a rally on May 15, 2021, as Palestinians mark the 73rd anniversary of the Nakba, the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation in 1948. - Israeli air strikes pounded the Gaza Strip, killing 10 members of an extended family and demolishing a key media building, while Palestinian militants launched rockets in return amid violence in the West Bank. Israel's air force targeted the 13-floor Jala Tower housing Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television and the Associated Press news agency. (Photo by Ahmad GHARABLI / AFP) (Photo by AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP via Getty Images)

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In Israel’s Mixed Jewish-Palestinian Towns, Old Frustrations Boil Into Violence

Aida Touma-Sliman

- May. 20, 2021

A Palestinian member of Israel’s Knesset writes that dispossession, discrimination, and occupation cannot be swept under the rug.

Aida Touma-Sliman

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In Israel’s Mixed Jewish-Palestinian Towns, Old Frustrations Boil Into Violence