US senator filibusters live coverage of powerful Palestinian testimonies | The Electronic Intifada

US senator filibusters live coverage of powerful Palestinian testimonies | The Electronic Intifada

 

On Friday, fifteen-year-old Tariq Abukhdeir spoke at a hearing on Capitol Hill about the brutal beating he endured at the hands of Israeli police in early July.  

The purpose of the hearing was to address Israeli impunity and US complicity
in crimes against Palestinians. Tariq was one of six panelists to
address the room, which was overflowing with congressional staffers.

Moderated by author and campaigner Josh Ruebner, other panelists included Tariq’s mother, Suha Abu Abukhdeir; Hassan Shibly of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Florida chapter; Sunjeev Bery from Amnesty International; Brad Parker from Defence for Children International and Palestinian author Laila El-Haddad.

Though he was just one of six speakers, Tariq’s testimony was
especially powerful as he relayed to the audience the horrors and
discrimination he witnessed and experienced as a Palestinian-American
child visiting his ancestral homeland. 

But just as Tariq started to detail the Israeli beating that left him unconscious and unrecognizable, CSPAN 2, which was broadcasting the hearing live, cut to the Senate floor.

You can watch the whole thing back on CSPAN’s website. The cut from Tariq to Boxer occurs soon after time code 03:30.

 

CSPAN cut from Tariq Abukhdeir’s live, moving testimony of Israeli
abuse in Jerusalem to cover Barbara Boxer’s incoherent pro-Israel rant
to a mostly empty Senate chamber. (screenshot)