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Democracy Now! shared this:
interview with a Palestinian leader of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement,
Omar Barghouti. Jewish Voice for Peace was part of an international campaign
to get the U.S. State department to reverse the decision to deny him a visa.
Thankfully, the campaign was successful and the U.S. granted him a visa after
unconscionably delaying. Hear what you almost missed below.

From the trancript, here’s Omar on Juliano Mer-Khamis’s death.

 
OMAR  BARGHOUTI: It’s   very  hard to  say who  killed him,  because  no
Palestinian  group  or individual  had any  interest  in killing him. I mean,
any patriotic Palestinian  lost Juliano, because Juliano did a great service
to  the  people  of Jenin,  especially  the  refugee  camp, and on the front of
cultural  resistance. When I  talked  about  nonviolent  popular resistance,
people forget that Palestinians have been resisting Israel’s occupation and
apartheid in many forms, including culture—dance, music, poetry, theater
and so on. And Juliano was really one of the people  at  the  forefront  of that
cultural resistance.