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Omar Barghouti

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born

January 01, 1964

gender

male

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Nonfiction

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Barghouti was born in Qatar, grew up in Egypt and later moved to Ramallah (West Bank) as an adult .

He is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI).

He is currently studying for a masters degree in philosophy at Tel Aviv University (The university has announced it has no plans to expel him after a petition was lodged by students calling for his expulsion).

PACBI released a statement branding the calls to expel Barghouti as "McCarthyist". In this statement, PACBI defended Barghouti by asserting that requiring Palestinians to boycott Israeli universities themselves as a prerequisite to endorsing the BDS call is "an absurd position, given the complete lack of alternatives avai...more