Rachel Corrie, a Witness for our Times
The legacy of an activist who paid the highest price for Gaza
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10 min readApr 10, 2024
Rachel Corrie’s death on 16 March 2003 brought the Palestinian struggle home to me for the first time. She was a girl my age, born forty-five years ago on this day, 10 April 1979. She was a student at a nearby college that my sister considered attending, the archetypal girl next door.
