How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #10
The Republic of Israel stepped up its demands for me, encouraged by rumors that I wasn't an American citizen, that I was, in fact, a citizen of nowhere. And the Republic's demands were framed so as to be educational, too—teaching that a propagandist of my sort was as much a murderer as Heydrich, Eichmann, Himmler, or any of the gruesome rest. (29.5)
Whether the boundaries are imaginary or not, belonging to a nation confers certain protections that being a "citizen of nowhere" does not. Campbell's statelessness makes him more vulnerable to punishment for crimes that occurred in the service of valuing nationalism too much and human life too little.