"This idea of infiltration is just misrepresenting reality on the ground. These people aren’t infiltrating. They are people under occupation. And Israel has the responsibility, under international law, to protect civilians under its occupation," Al-Shabaka analyst Tareq Baconi tells Democracy Now's Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez:

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Tareq Baconi is a Palestinian writer, scholar, and activist. He previously served as Al-Shabaka’s US policy fellow and later as president of the board of directors. His work has appeared in The New York Times and The Baffler, among others. He also contributes essays to The New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He is the author of What Now: On Palestine, Freedom, and Our Global Future (2026), Hamas Contained: A History of Palestinian Resistance (2018), which was shortlisted for the Palestine Book Award, and Fire in Every Direction: A Memoir (2025).

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Tuesday, May 15, 2018
2018-05-15