BDS Leader Omar Barghouti Dedicates His Gandhi Peace Award to Palestinian Prisoners on Hunger Strike

democracynow.org - As more than 1,000 Palestinian prisoners have entered their ninth day on a massive hunger strike inside Israeli jails, we are joined by the Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti, who has come to the United States to receive the 2017 Gandhi Peace Award for his work as co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions, or BDS, movement. At the award ceremony, Barghouti dedicated the prize to Palestinians on hunger strike. He was almost prevented from attending after Israeli police arrested him, seizing his passport and forbidding him from leaving the country. An Israeli court eventually temporarily lifted the travel ban.
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  • @charleskesner1302
    @charleskesner13027 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for reporting on this. US Corporate Media has failed us on this.

  • @NotStraightCat
    @NotStraightCat7 жыл бұрын

    In France, Georges Ibrahim 'Abdallah and other political prisonners are also starting since monday a big strike to support our Palestinian brothers & sisters.

  • @tammiburk3071
    @tammiburk30717 жыл бұрын

    Thank you @Democracy Now for your giving airtime to the Palestinian Struggle.

  • @tammiburk3071
    @tammiburk30717 жыл бұрын

    Mr. Barghouti you are Amazing, we are behind you all the way!!

  • @heatherstahlnecker9270
    @heatherstahlnecker92707 жыл бұрын

    the world did fail the Palestinian's .

  • @jermyhinks4223

    @jermyhinks4223

    6 жыл бұрын

    *Palestinian faild the world by supporting Hamas (=terror org) and embracing ISIS values.*

  • @robertadame9956
    @robertadame99567 жыл бұрын

    Omar Barghouti , Ich bin ein Palestinian!

  • @tammiburk3071
    @tammiburk30717 жыл бұрын

    BDS Baby all the way!!

  • 7 жыл бұрын

    Thanks

  • @simpaticaism
    @simpaticaism7 жыл бұрын

    Good interview , thank you ....

  • @gloriouse4458
    @gloriouse44587 жыл бұрын

    I KNOW AMY GOODMAN SHOULD GET THE NOBLE PEACE PRIZE FOR HAVING TO PUT UP WITH ALL THIS 😁👌💝🌺

  • @NellieKAdaba
    @NellieKAdaba7 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @mikebengyak199
    @mikebengyak1997 жыл бұрын

    i am ashamed that jews went from the oppressed to the oppressor, i have the same DNA but that only makes me feel worse. old man mike bengyak

  • @DdDd-gd1rr

    @DdDd-gd1rr

    7 жыл бұрын

    mike bengyak thanks for keeping it real Mike.

  • @robertadame9956

    @robertadame9956

    7 жыл бұрын

    Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. The whole world is watching.

  • @motorhead6763
    @motorhead67637 жыл бұрын

    Ghandi peace.prize?????!!!! Has the world gone insane? Well they did give Arafat a Nobel prize and Kurt Waldheim(Nazi) was head of U.N.... Monty Python should do a show on you guys...omg!!!!

  • @cdream5414
    @cdream54147 жыл бұрын

    I don't think Jews and Palestinians are two "different races". Both Jews and Arabs are the SAME RACE, Semitic race, which is a white race.

  • @NotStraightCat

    @NotStraightCat

    7 жыл бұрын

    race is all non-sense you can imagine but no science at all

  • @cdream5414

    @cdream5414

    7 жыл бұрын

    Didou , you must be a black person that's why you say that, but who cares what you say. the truth is that race exists, and the Middle Eastern peoples are WHITE.

  • @RachelDerGolem
    @RachelDerGolem7 жыл бұрын

    The Gandhi Peace Award is an award and cash prize presented annually since 1960 by Promoting Enduring Peace to individuals for "contributions made in the promotion of international peace and good will." It is named in honor of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi[1] but has no connection to Mohandas Gandhi or any other member of the Gandhi family.---Wikipedia.

  • @zozodolewin2479

    @zozodolewin2479

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rachel Golem f of receset

  • @motorhead6763
    @motorhead67637 жыл бұрын

    Ps my friends in India love and support Israel...and vomit at him using Ghandi s name...ask an Indian person what he thinks. InSaNe נודנק

  • @RachelDerGolem
    @RachelDerGolem7 жыл бұрын

    They can send all the food the Palestinians won't eat and send it to the hungry people is Syria.

  • @chilly4180

    @chilly4180

    7 жыл бұрын

    Or Yemen

  • @PV-xh1mg

    @PV-xh1mg

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rachel Golem ...that's a Fucking dumbass comment...

  • @RachelDerGolem
    @RachelDerGolem7 жыл бұрын

    Barghouti moved to Israel at the age of 29, just to complain how bad it was. Read his biography on Wikipedia.

  • @petermartell748

    @petermartell748

    7 жыл бұрын

    he speaks the truth. Israel is an oppressive apartheid state and most of the world opposes their behaviour

  • @robertadame9956

    @robertadame9956

    7 жыл бұрын

    Rachel Golem a man by the name of Moses did the same thing. Let my people go!

  • @cajantube
    @cajantube7 жыл бұрын

    BDS is ludicrous because Israeli resources are valuable in multiple areas.

  • @robertadame9956

    @robertadame9956

    7 жыл бұрын

    cajan tube in South Africa there was gold and diamonds, but that didn't matter. Apartheid ended because of worldwide pressure. Do you remember? You know Israel gave South Africa money to help support their Apartheid.

  • @RachelDerGolem
    @RachelDerGolem7 жыл бұрын

    Mobileye, the Israeli computer vision firm that’s currently in the process of being acquired by chip giant Intel for $15.3 billion.

  • @RachelDerGolem
    @RachelDerGolem7 жыл бұрын

    I think President Assad should get the Nobel Peace Prize for his fight against Zionists in Aleppo.

  • @robertadame9956

    @robertadame9956

    7 жыл бұрын

    Should Assad continue to support the monopoly of the sale of Liquid Natural Gas by Russia to Europe? Or will he allow our allies like Qatar and Saudi Arabia to construct a pipeline through Syria to Turkey? Rex Tillerson is very interested in Assad's answer to this question.

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