‘Israelis killed my father, destroyed my home, they’re destroying my culture. And nonviolence is the only way forward’
'As long as we choose violence Israel will always defeat us'
Mubarak Awad, one of the main organizers of nonviolentresistance during the First Intifada until Israel exiled him, talks
about why only nonviolence can defeat the occupation, how Palestinians
must convince Israelis that peace is their own interest, and his fears
that without a new nonviolent movement more and more Palestinian youths
will be drawn to armed resistance.
By Waleed Shahid (First published in ‘In These Times‘)
Mubarak Awad. (photo courtesy of Meir Amor)
