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I have never wanted to claim I know what is best for Israel.
Jill Soloway
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Jill Soloway
Age: 59
Born: 1965
Born: September 26
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I'm like a bit of a feminist, I have kinds of highly political dreams. I'm a dreamer about taking on the patriarchy and all that kinda stuff. So I actually have the secret belief that there are enough people who would consider themselves quote-unquote other to support my particular taste.
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I learned in grade-school that after WWII European politicians considered sending Jews to Madagascar instead of Palestine. At the time I thought: Madagascar would've been so great.
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In my own work I am invested in art as a way to break through impasses, whether those impasses are personal, social, or political.
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Many of our holidays revolve around traumas that happened to our people and how we must remember them in specific ways. The way these stories are told and what we take away from them can change, and do in certain contexts, but overall I am not sure whether Jews want to let go of the narrative of the victim.
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I said to my parents that I don't even know if there should be an Israel. And they were just so upset and hurt.
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