“Empathy for the Palestinians may only develop when we all become Palestinians. In the absence of a large economic stimulus package in the USA, unemployed workers, victims of systemic racism, indebted students, evicted renters and those who have become bankrupt from healthcare debt will have a taste of what daily life is like in an occupied territory. But in the U.S. case, the occupiers are the 1%, the American financial, tech and lobbying elites who have profited handsomely from the pandemic.”