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Holocaust Survivor and Palestinians' Rights Lawyer Felicia Langer Dies in Exile at 87

Felicia Langer fought, first in Israel and then from Germany, for the enforcement of international law from which Israel excepted itself

Gideon Levy
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I never met her, only called her two or three times in her place of exile, but I well remember what she was for me and most of my generation in our brainwashed youth: a symbol of hatred for Israel, a public enemy, a reviled, outcast traitor. That’s how we were taught to regard her and a few other early dissidents, and we neither questioned nor cared why.

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