Words of courage and hope in dark times | Letters

Mahmoud Khalil’s message to his newborn son reminds Nick Kart of the letter written for his father in 1934I have a letter like the one from Mahmoud Khalil to his newborn, written by my grandfather as he lay dying to my father (To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction, 11 May). My father was a Jewish Kindertransport refugee to the UK from Vienna in May 1939. My grandfather wrote it in 1934 as the clouds of fascism were massing.Khalil’s letter speaks to courage and kindness, a father’s love for his son. It speaks from a place where it is clear that Palestinians have no security at all in their future, where their hopes are being systematically crushed. Continue reading...

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