Gershon Shafir Featured in the San Francisco Chronicle

Professor Gershon Shafir of the UCSD department of Sociology was quoted in a the San Francisco Chronicle article titles “For Bay Area student, hunger strike in Israeli prison is personal.” The article discusses a hunger strike in an Israeli prison and features Gershon Shafir in which he says:

Marwan Barghouti refused to offer a defense in his 2002 trial, saying the Israeli justice system was illegitimate. Palestinians compare him to South African antiapartheid leader Nelson Mandela, “militant in some ways and moderate in some ways. Many Palestinians had hoped the hunger strike would prompt Marwan Barghouti’s freedom and help catapult him to the presidency, a position the 82-year-old Abbas has held since January 2005.

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