Eric Margolis (anti-racist, Jewish-origin conservative US writer) on Palestinian human rights advocacy of his mother, his mother Nexhmie Zaimi (3 June 2018):“I have been steeped in Mideast affairs since the early 1950s, when my late mother, Nexhmie Zaimi, was one of the first female American journalists to cover the Arab world, interviewing Egypt’s President Nasser, and Anwar Sadat, Jordan’s King Hussein, and Iraq’s strongman, Nuri As-Said. She began reporting the plight of 750,000 Palestinian refugees driven from their homes by the newly created state of Israel. Few Americans had ever heard of Palestinians. They were told Israel was ‘a land without people for a people without land’. My mother’s newspaper articles and lectures brought her much attention and constant death threats and attacks on our New York City home. The newspapers for which she wrote were pressured by major advertisers to drop her columns. A courageous, outspoken woman, Mrs. Zaimi continued public speaking until she was finally silenced by threats to throw acid into my face. Fifty years later, after living in Egypt and a lifetime travelling across the Arab world and Israel, I am an ingrained pessimist. I would like nothing better than see a just Mideast peace, with Arabs and Jews living together peacefully and productively in a secular, non-racist state.” (Eric Margolis quoted in Manzoor Ahmed Manzoor, “The Palestinians cannot be defeated”, PAP, 1 May 2018: http://papofmam.com/2018/05/01/the-palestinians-cannot-be-defeated/ ).