In February 2020, just a few weeks before the global travel was to come to a standstill, I was in Jerusalem. On a cold, rainy evening, I met up with a Palestinian anthropologist, whose family had lived in Jerusalem for several centuries. As we talked about the suffering of the Palestinians, he told me that no one cares. He was talking about nearly everyone — the US, the Europeans, the Muslim countries and of course the Arab neighbors of Palestine.