Caro S.<p>Leslie Feinberg speech at Aswat conference 2007</p><p>"Leslie Feinberg, a lesbian transgender and Jewish communist and a managing editor of Workers World, delivered the following solidarity statement to the first public conference of Aswat—​Palestinian Gay Women—​in Haifa on March 28, 2007. Bracketed words, phrases and sentences were delivered in Arabic. The 10th anniversary of comrade Leslie’s death will be marked on Nov. 15."</p><p>[I know where I stand: in historic Palestine. So my first words must be in Arabic. Thank you for inviting me here. It is the largest honor in my life. I salute Aswat.]</p><p>My first words in English must be why I am here, within the 1948 borders of the Israeli settler state. Why am I here when the colonial occupier set up an apartheid state in the name of Jewish people and co-opts the symbol of Judaism, stitching it into every uniform, flying it from every tank turret?</p><p>Why am I here when I remember, every day of my adult life, what happened to the people of Deir Yassin? 1/n</p><p><a href="https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuA_ifp1jLY" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">m.youtube.com/watch?v=yuA_ifp1</span><span class="invisible">jLY</span></a></p><p><a href="https://todon.eu/tags/SolidarityPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SolidarityPalestine</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Palestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Palestine</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/BoycottIsrael" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoycottIsrael</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LeslieFeinberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LeslieFeinberg</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Aswat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Aswat</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/palestine" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>palestine</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/israel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>israel</span></a></span> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/QueersForPalestine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>QueersForPalestine</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/LGBTQplus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LGBTQplus</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/Lebanon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanon</span></a> <a href="https://todon.eu/tags/StoneButchBlues" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>StoneButchBlues</span></a></p>