MENA Minorities

Interview in German with Swiss public radio (SRF) providing some background on the situation of the Druze in the occupied Golan Heights against the backdrop of the tragic rocket attack on Majdal Shams. Last month I was also cited in a piece on Middle East Eye  by Madeline Edwards about Walid Junblat's rhetoric towards Israel's Druze community: ...And though images of Sultan al-Atrash are common among Druze Israelis, Lang said, “I think what triggered Jumblatt was the usage of the pictures of his father. This is quite unusual. Memory is always selective - Kamal Jumblatt can be seen as a symbol of the Lebanese and pro-Palestinian left, and as a Druze leader, too."  But for Druze citizens of Israel, according to Lang, Kamal Jumblatt’s image is “not widely used.” ...