Judith Butler Quotes About Refugees

Quotes about: Refugees

• I'm trying to think of what happens if we take expulsion off the table for everyone, and instead think about the rights of those who have been expelled already, which would include the various rights of refugees who came to Israel in the aftermath of WWII, but also those from other countries, and what rights the Palestinians have who have been dispossessed of their lands and homes.

  Judith Butler

  Country, Home, Thinking

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

• We need a legal and political understanding of the right of the refugee, whereby no solution for one group produces a new class of refugees - you can't solve a refugee problem by producing a new, potentially greater refugee problem.

  Judith Butler

  Class, Political, Understanding

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

• Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.

  Judith Butler

  Mean, Rights, Understanding

  Source: www.opendemocracy.net

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