Amira Hass Quotes
As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.
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I've basically worked as a journalist and a writer.
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To be a Jew is a destiny.
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For somebody who is a journalist, I can be awfully unobservant sometimes.
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I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me.
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
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There won't remain a single Jew that we will need to defend beyond the fence.
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I was a journalist and wrote about filmmakers, but I didn't review movies per se.
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It doesn't mean that you endorse it. It doesn't mean you're being insensitive. It means you're a journalist and you're telling the story.
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[On journalists:] We are a noisy, imperfect lot, struggling to scribble what has been called the first draft of history.
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I was told that [Japan journalists] wanted to see my dog, Yume. You can see that she is in great shape.
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Yes I am, I am also a Muslim, a Christian, a Buddhist, and a Jew.
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A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations.
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Was there any form of filth or crime without at least one Jew involved in it? If you cut into such a sore, you find, like a maggot in a rotting body, often dazzled by the sudden light, a Jew.
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The journalist should be on his guard against publishing what is false in taste or exceptionable in morals.
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The privileges of the side-table included the small prerogatives of sitting next to the toast, and taking two cups of tea to other people's one.
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If I had to baptise a Jew, I would take him to the bridge of the Elbe, hang a stone around his neck and push him over with the words 'I baptise thee in the name of Abraham'.
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All journalists hope that their work will inspire a broader conversation. I think that's just what journalism is.
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I believe that white people need to check themselves, account for their privileges, and undergo whatever interaction with communities of color with that understanding. They have to add up all those processes and articulate those privileges to try to equalize the historical process.
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As a journalist, or an anthropologist, the convention is that people are there for you to study, and they are your objects.
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I was the only Jew who'd ever been elected, and I don't know when there'll be another.
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It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.
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How do you establish online friends by talking about the weather?
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As a Jew and a journalist I have my privileges, and if one doesn't work I use the other one.
