The problem with Antigone is that she stood up to the despot Creon, but in such a way that she ended up dying. So she bought her defiance with her death. The real question I ended up asking was, "What would it mean for Antigone to have stood up to Creon and lived?" And the only way she could have lived is if she had had a serious social movement with her. If she arrived with a social movement to take down the despot, maybe it would have taken 18 days only, like in Egypt. It's really important to be able to re-situate one's rage and destitution in the context of a social movement.

The state or global forms of power that seek to protect populations considered in danger may well extend their own power through those acts of protection.

All of those who inhabit the world have a right to be here by virtue of their being here at all. To be here means you have a right to be here.

People who expect enmity to suddenly convert into love are probably using the wrong model.

We're trying to divide groups or decide that some of them are truly victims and some of them are truly aggressors.

We have to have a very strong criticism of modes of cooperation that entrench inequality.

Although the history of dispossession and exile for Jews is very different from the history of dispossession and exile for Palestinians, they both have recent and searing experiences which might allow them to come to a common understanding on the rights of refugees, or what it might mean to live together with resonant histories of that kind.