Roundtable: Palestinian Americans share their perspectives on conflict in Gaza

Palestinians walk next to the buildings destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Bureij refugee camp, Gaza Strip.

LISTENER MONTAGE: These are things that the collective Muslim population sees and sees that the world doesn't do anything about or care about. And, then it makes us feel very abandoned. But when an entire people are oppressed or victimized in so many ways for so long. It's bound to happen that certain actions are going to act out.

Now joining me, we have a round table of Palestinian Americans, Leila Farsakh is with us. She's a professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Author of"Palestinian Labour Migration to Israel: Labour, Land and Occupation," and she's with me in the On Point studio. Professor Farsakh, welcome to the program.CHAKRABARTI: Also joining us is Philip Farah. He's an economist at the United States Government Accountability Office.

CHAKRABARTI: Can you tell me a little bit more about how the family members that you've been able to stay in touch with are surviving through the bombardment and the blockade of supplies. I'll note that just over the weekend a few trucks started being allowed to come in. They're eating stale bread that they managed to get a bag of bread about a week ago before the bakeries shut down. And the only bakery near them was bombed actually by the Israeli army. They toasted that bread over an open fire, and they've been eating that, sort of hard pieces of bread with some canned foods and lentils.

And mainly though, mainly, and I think this is the most exhausting part, trying to justify our humanity to the world and explain why we and our people don't deserve to be killed. This is what I'm spending the most amount of time doing.

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