His uncle, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erakat, said Ahmed was "murdered in cold blood." Ahmad himself was slated to be married next week, Erekat said. This is an incredibly hurtful lie, but it is a systematic lie that Israel tells as it kills Palestinians and blames them for their own deaths.
This is such a terrible time for you. And the rest of the world accepts this because of how used to the loss of Palestinian lives we have become numb to. That was all it took to have a knee-jerk reaction, for the car to jerk a little bit and immediately to cause the soldiers to open fire on him multiple times.Note that these soldiers, who are fully armed at this checkpoint, are behind barriers, are not actually out in the open, and then left Ahmed to bleed for one-and-a-half hours. We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. Palestinians are driven by a hatred for Jews and are basically born in order to kill.” As former Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked said, Palestinian mothers should be killed because they birth snakes? — Noura Erakat (@4noura) June 23, 2020. And it is done with the full, unequivocal, diplomatic, financial, military support of the United States and with the complicity of the international community.So it bears upon us to respond in this moment by supporting the Palestinian call for freedom, by doing the little that we can by engaging in Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions for Ahmed, for Razan, for Iyad, to oppose the annexation, to oppose apartheid, to fight for freedom. His family rejects the allegations, is calling for Israeli authorities to release security footage. It should remind us that even those Palestinians who are bearing witness to this are subject to a state of forced helplessness. Please do your part today.Palestinian American human rights attorney and legal scholar.This is a rush transcript. For 1.5 hours. Why are there checkpoints anywhere? They are not even allowed to help Ahmed in that moment.I want to just bring up something, Amy, to the audience before I address Israel’s vicious, dangerous and disgusting allegations that this was a car ramming, and raise three questions for the audience that’s paying attention right now.Right now, one, why is Abu Dis, where Ahmed and my family is from, so severely underdeveloped that he has to travel outside to one of the big Palestinian cities in order to get his sisters from a hair salon? Yousef Erakat's sister, Noura, who is far from dating anyone at the moment, has a fortune of around $5 million as of 2019. Senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat said his cousin, Ahmad Moustafa Erakat, was only rushing when Border Police shot him dead at the “Container” checkpoint in the neighborhood of Abu Dis, north of Bethlehem.
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Her mom was there with her. Why can’t Palestinians, why couldn’t my family get to Jerusalem, and instead have to travel to Bethlehem?And number three, and so importantly, why is there a checkpoint between Bethlehem and Abu Dis, two Palestinian cities? We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work. We also understand that his father, Abu Faisal, was there pleading with the Israeli soldiers to let him access his son. Ahmed Erakat’s family originally was quoted in the media saying that he could not have attacked the checkpoint. (Abbas Momani/AFP)The scene of an alleged car-ramming attempt at a West Bank checkpoint near Abu Dis, east of Jerusalem, June 23, 2020. And what we understand is that Ahmed lost control of his car or was confused while he was in his car. What we know is that Israel has done this systematically. It is a settler colonial system that enshrines Jewish Israeli supremacy as a matter of law and policy on an international scale. But there will be. We know among those murdered was paramedic, 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar, who had her hands up, was wearing a paramedic vest, and was shot in the back. This is normalized. It is an apartheid system.
And this is the context in which Ahmed now, his family, is fighting for justice in his name and is also mourning his life at the same time.And yet, because of the dehumanization of Palestinians and the racism with which our stories are cloaked, there are some who might say, “Yeah, it is possible. Others, including his cousin Noura Erakat — a Rutgers University professor — repeated unsubstantiated claims that the soldiers left Erakat bleeding in the road for 90 minutes without medical care until he died. — Noura Erakat (@4noura) ... and the wedding hall where his sister Iman was supposed to get married that night.
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Palestinians have been steadily removed from their homes. They did it with Razan.