Israel’s Campaign of Silencing Palestinian Political Expression
Israel’s punishment of imprisoned Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti for publishing a New York Times op-ed is only the latest episode in a systematic campaign of silencing political expression.
by Matthew DeMaio
This week, over 1,000 Palestinian prisoners launched a mass hunger strike to protest rights violations by the Israeli prison system. Marwan Barghouti, a prominent leader of Fatah and the mass hunger strike, penned an op-ed in The New York Times describing the reasons for the strike and the prisoner’s demands. In response to the op-ed, I…
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