Today, while looking for more positive input, I had to think of a lecture by #Anthropologist Jeremy MacClancy:

We forget that most people are not much interested in identity politics. Indeed, the very opposite is true: Most people strive daily to uphold equality, commonality, and a notion of humanity which usually tends towards the universal. They wish to connect, not to divide.”
But this commonality is not always as easy to spot as flag-waving activists who proclaim their identity, be it Norwegians, Islamists, Protestants, #Israeli or #Palestinian.

https://www.sv.uio.no/sai/english/research/projects/overheating/news/2017/macclancy.html

#Gaza #israel #Israel-Palestineconflict #Anthropology

"Start with the commonalities!" - Department of Social Anthropology

“Anthropologists tend to exaggerate differences and to downplay commonalities. It is our moral duty to correct this distorted picture,” said Jeremy MacClancy at the first international workshop of the Overheating project.

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