Palestinian Shooting Victim Says Violence He Faced Is “Part of a Larger Story”

Hisham Awartani, one of three Palestinian college students who were shot by a white man in Burlington, Vermont, over the weekend, issued a text message statement to his peers at Brown University on Monday night, which was read aloud during a vigil on campus. In his missive, Awartani, who grew up in the occupied West Bank in Palestine, said the attack against him and his friends — Kinnan Abdalhamid…

Source

This post was originally published on Latest – Truthout.