Fields of Exile by Nora Gold

Author:Nora Gold
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 2014-04-08T04:00:00+00:00

PHOTO ALBUM OF OUR PEOPLE:

PALESTINIAN LIFE AND DEATH UNDER ZIONIST APARTHEID

“Apartheid” again. And again her stomach drops. I have to get to class, she thinks. I have to reach those elevators up ahead. So she keeps moving toward this banner. Finally she is close enough to be able to read the small print:

SPONSORED BY THE SOCIAL JUSTICE COMMITTEE OF THE DUNHILL STUDENTS’ UNION (DSU)

Now she understands. This is the Students’ Union’s Social Justice Information Table. The table Chris was asking for volunteers for in Greg’s class two Mondays ago. She looks around the lobby. New students are constantly streaming in, initially looking surprised, but then browsing through the exhibit. Every single student, she thinks, from social work, labour studies, anthropology, or sociology who enters this building today is going to be exposed to these pictures. To this lie. And a certain percentage of them, being ignorant and gullible, will believe it.

She feels someone looking at her. It’s Chris, watching her with a smug little smirk, a look of “Let’s see what you have to say about this.” A look daring her to say or do something. She lowers her eyes. “Just get through this year,” Bobby said. “Keep your mouth shut. In six months you’ll never have to see these people again.” Avoiding looking at Chris, she squeezes through a crack between the tables and slinks to the elevator. Slinking like a snake. Slinking like a worm. Full of angst and shame, she rides up to class.

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