Human Rights in Palestine Worsening as U.S. Solidarity Movement Strengthens
NOVANEWS
DALE SPRUSANSKY
WAGING PEACE
(L-r) Dr. Diane Shammas, Said Arikat, Jonathan Kuttab and Phyllis Bennis. (PHOTO D. HANLEY)
Waging Peace
By Dale Sprusansky
Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies began her remarks at the March 2 American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC)’s annual convention in Washington, DC by noting the distressing disconnection between the increasingly successful Palestinian human rights movement and the worsening reality facing actual Palestinians on the ground.
“The movement for Palestinian rights is stronger than ever before,” she said. “That’s the good news.” The bad news: “We are not yet at a point where we can say it’s having a real impact on people’s lives [in Palestine]. There’s no illusion here, it is not.”
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