Summary

A US senator treated in Palestine: A Socialist Introduction as part of the US political shift on Palestine (Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, lines 1398-1445, 1761-1777).

Details

  • Chapter 7’s interviewers’ question records that he openly claimed he would consider cutting funds to Israel, following Israel’s rejection of entry for Omar and Tlaib’s delegation to Palestine, in a leftward shift in the lead-up to the 2020 elections the US has not witnessed in decades; Barghouti’s answer records that he publicly defended the right to boycott Israel to achieve Palestinian rights (line 1428, lines 1398-1445).
  • The Conclusion records that he released a video of testimonies from Gaza during the Great March of Return, at a time when the march was still being labeled a “terrorist” operation (lines 1761-1775).

Palestine: A Socialist Introduction, BDS movement, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib