Israel’s onslaught has been on a scale never seen before. I spend my days searching for hopeRaja Shehadeh is a Palestinian lawyer and writer, and founder of the human rights organisation Al-HaqSix months into Israel’s murderous war on Gaza, I spend my days in Ramallah reading the devastating news, feeling helpless and heartbroken. Yet one morning, I turned instead to a book on Hannah Arendt and read her words: “It is when the experience of powerlessness is at its most acute, when history seems... Read this story
