Why was Palestinian legislator and scholar Hanan Ashrawi denied a U.S. entry visa to speak at a University of Massachusetts event?
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Ironically, this event, which focuses on efforts by those Israel supports who want to shut down debate, is actually being targeted by those very forces. Caught in the scuffle, Hanan Ashrawi, who was supposed to join Roger Waters, Linda Sansour, Dave Zirin and Marc Lamont Hill as a guest speaker, found in the weeks leading up to the event that the U.S. was denying her visa.
“I think this is something new from the Trump administration,” Professor Sut Jhallysaid of Ashrawi’s thwarted efforts to speak at the conference. Jhally recalled Omar Barghouti’s similar experience in recent weeks, and charged that Trump is “doing the bidding of the Israeli government.”
Among the organizations who are targeting the event, the following stand out:
Israel supporters try to shut down...