The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders
Jessie Sampter “spoke of herself as ‘crippled’ from...polio.” In addition, “she wrote of homoerotic longings and had same-sex relationships we would consider queer."
One of Jessie Sampter's quotes, taken from one of her poems and popularized in a book of quotations by women, appears on a sign in Ladakh, India.(photo credit: WIKIPEDIA)ByANDREW SILOW-CARROLL / JTAUpdated: