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Struggle for Palestinian Rights</span></p><div style="text-align: center;">
</div><p style="text-align: center;" class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 23pt; line-height: 115%;">Omar Barghouti at BranDei</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><b><span style="font-size: 23pt; line-height: 115%;">S</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><b><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></b></p>
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April 13th</span></p>
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(Upper S</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">h</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;">erman)</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">International boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS)
efforts helped topple South Africa’s brutal apartheid regime. In this urgent
book, Omar Barghouti makes the case for a rights-based BDS campaign to stop
Israel’s rapacious occ</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">upation, colonization, and apartheid against the Palestinian
people. This considered, convincing collection contributes to the growing
debate on Israel’s violations of international law and points the way
forward to a united global civil society movement for freedom, justice,
self-determination, and equality for all.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">OMAR
BARGHOUTI</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> is an independent Palestinian commentator and human rights
activist. He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic
and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the Palestinian Civil Society
Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">For Details:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"> <a href="mailto:noamleka@brandeis.edu" target="_blank">noamleka@brandeis.edu</a></span></p>
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</span><br></p><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Sponsored
by: </span></b>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Brandeis Students for Justice in Palestine (BSJP)</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br><a href="http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=205323332819599#%21/event.php?eid=205323332819599" target="_blank"></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“Omar Barghouti’s lucid and morally compelling book is
perfectly timed to make a major contribution to this urgently needed global
campaign for justice, freedom and peace.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">—Archbishop
Desmond Tutu</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“No one has done more to build the intellectual, legal, and
moral case for BDS than Omar Barghouti. The global Palestinian solidarity
movement has been transformed and is on the cusp of major breakthroughs.”</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">—Naomi
Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">“When powerful governments will not act, ordinary people must
take the lead... Essential reading for all who care about justice and the
plight of an oppressed people.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;">—Ken Loach,
filmmaker</span></p>
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