Bassem Tamimi: Our Destiny is to Resist
Tamimi has been detained by the Israeli authorities more than a dozen times, at one point spending three years in administrative detention without trial. He has been described by the European Union as a human rights defender, and Amnesty International called for his release as a prisoner of conscience. In 2013 Bassem Tamimi and his family were featured in a New York Times Magazine cover story. Recently the Tamimi family and village of Nabi Saleh were in the news when the Tamimis’ daughter intervened in the assault and arrest of her young brother.
As part of his month-long U.S. speaking tour, Bassem Tamimi will visit SF State to speak about his village’s work for freedom and justice and the struggles his family and others in his village face because of injury and arrest by the Israeli military. This is an important opportunity to hear a Palestinian perspective on this long conflict.