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  9.  @MartinaNugent-yt8ig  I am proud also. I remember seeing a picture of a mural maybe 20 years ago, it may have been the famous one of two hands making contact, each one extent from a jail cell. I don’t remember exactly which mural, but regardless, it was shocking to see. It’s just not the experience in America that people with a European background show sympathy, let alone solidarity with the Palestinians. Here in the school system we learn about discrimination against Irish people in the US from earlier on, but the contemporary experience is that Irish people and Irish culture are viewed very favorably. We have sort of commercialized aspects of Irish culture, in that there are ‘Irish pub’ themed restaurants (I don’t know how authentic those are), an Irish oriented holiday where everybody wears green (St Patrick’s day), Irish line dancing, and so on. We even have a major university whose mascot is ‘the fighting Irish.’ I don’t think anybody here can claim Ireland ever invaded, colonized, or did anything else to them, and they are viewed as wholesome people. Again, that was not always the case, because I have seen in older news paper headlines or political cartoons in history class, that they were viewed very differently up until relatively recently. As for Middle East food that’s vegan friendly, have you ever had hummus? It’s a dip that’s made with garbanzo beans, sesame tahini, olive oil and lemon juice. It’s very tasty. We also have items like ‘baba ganoush’ (another dip, but based on eggplant), dolma (rice and seasoning wrapped in grape leaves, but be careful, there’s vegetarian and non-vegetarian), and also falafel. The rice is also good, but make sure you ask if it’s not seasoned with chicken broth. There is also lentil soup. Around here there are many vegans, and the place I go to, they server a vegetarian version of an okra stew that normally has meat. I once asked the owner how come he makes this stew without the meat, which it normally includes, and he said there’s a lot of vegetarians who come in, and so he changed the recipe to include something that appeals to them. The hummus and baba ganoush are simple enough that you can make them at home. Basically you just need a blender and a good recipe from the internet. If you’ve never had hummus before, I recommend you try to make it at home. It’s really straight forward, and you can try a few different recipes, and then dial it in to suit your tastes.
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