Palestine Right to Return Coalition
Chair of the Palestine Right to Return Coalition
PROFILE
Amani Barakat
Guest
FROM Amani Barakat
The Mixer
Violence in the Holy Land… Stirring the Streets of Los Angeles Over the past three weeks, the long-running Israeli-Palestinian conflict has seen yet another uptick in violence. At least 40 Palestinians and nine Israelis have been killed in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. And protests and deadly clashes have, once again, become the daily norm. Here in LA, any flare-up in the conflict reverberates through the large diasporic communities that live here.
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