there are certain caveats to that. so although many of them may have legitimate passports from other countries, the fact that they have palestinian IDs is a stigma especially when they are in israel or wishing to go back to the west bank/gaza. in a lot of cases they’ll get caught in one bantustan and at the check points they’ll be turned away. many of them don’t go back to see their families for that reason. their ‘western privilege’ is not wholesale particularly with respect to what’s most important – their families and homeland.
for instance, when the border between gaza and egypt was blown up earlier this year by hamas, a lot of gazans flooded into egypt and escaped to places like canada/sweden/US/etc… and they’ll never go back to see their families, ever. israel enforces permanent displacement in so many ways. ethnic cleansing is their science.

thanks so much for posting about it.