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AMYGOODMAN: Palestinians, artists, peace activists worldwide are mourning the loss of a leading figure in Palestinian creative nonviolence resistance. Juliano Mer-Khamis, the head of a theater for Palestinian children, was killed on Monday in the West Bank town of Jenin. Khamis was shot five times by masked assailants. He had received a number of death threats from extremist Palestinians for his work with the Jenin Freedom Theatre.
The theater has helped Palestinian youths deal with the hardships of life under Israeli occupation by expressing themselves through the arts — film, photography, art, and most predominantly, the stage. Khamis had recently directed his students in a production of Alice in Wonderland.
Born to a Jewish mother and an Arab Christian father in Israel, Khamis was a well-known actor who appeared in a number of films. He opened the theater after its predecessor, founded by his mother, was destroyed in the Israeli assault on Jenin. Khamis was carrying his infant son when he was shot to death. He was just steps away from the Freedom Theatre. In addition to his son, he is survived by his wife, w
The life and death of Juliano Mer Khamis
I begin with the poignant profile by Amira Hass in Haaretz, &#;Mer-Khamis and binational resistance movement&#;:
Those who knew Juliano Mer-Khamis, the Nazareth-born actor and director who was shot in Jenin on Monday, will have to be the ones to write about him&#;.
&#;. He was born Palestinian and Jewish, Jewish and Palestinian. &#; Juliano embodied the potential of a shared life (ta&#;ayush in Arabic ) while striving for equality. The son of a Jewish mother and a Palestinian father, he was born to two cultures, and chose to live in both. &#;
My guess is that Juliano wasn&#;t entertaining illusions; sustaining blows from all sides, the potential of ta&#;ayush shrank. Ta&#;ayush is the sane vision, but the chance that it will be realized is increasingly slim. &#;
As this NY Times article indicates, it&#;s not quite right to characterize this man as a &#;peace activist.&#; For one thing, he opposed a two-state solution: &#;Mr. Mer Khamis could not accept a two-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which he felt would essentially mean division. He advocated the idea of one state with eq
To Juliano and Vittorio with love
| Italian peace activist Vittorio Arrigoni was killed while working for the International Solidarity Movement [Reuters] |
Juliano Mer-Khamis and Vittorio Arrigoni were humanists who believed in the struggle of the Palestinian people. They braved the Israeli occupation and were prepared to sacrifice their lives for freedom.
But unlike International Solidarity Movement (ISM) activists Rachel Corrie and Tom Hurndall, who were murdered by Israeli occupation forces as they tried to shield Palestinian families, Juliano and Vittorio were killed by members of the Palestinian communities they had come to know and trust. The first killed by unknown, presumably Palestinian, assailants; the second by Palestinian fanatics.
On April 4, masked gunmen shot Juliano in front of the Freedom Theatre he had founded in the Jenin refugee camp. Ten days later Vittorio, an ISM activist, was abducted and later found strangled to death in an apartment in the Gaza Strip.
Solidarity activists have traditionally been embraced, virtually adopted even, by their host communities. That they should be killed by those they were trying to defend generated shockwaves t
The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis
On the afternoon of Monday, 4 April , Juliano Mer-Khamis walked out of the Freedom Theatre in the Jenin refugee camp and got into his old red Citroën. It was four o’clock, the sun was hot and the street crowded. He put his baby son, Jay, on his lap, placing the boy’s fingers on the steering wheel; the babysitter sat next to them. As he set off, a man in a balaclava came out of an alleyway and told him to stop. He had a gun. The babysitter told Juliano to keep driving, but he stopped. The gunman shot him five times, then walked back down the alley. He left his mask in the street. Jay survived; the babysitter escaped with minor injuries. Juliano was dead. Later his body was handed over to the Israeli authorities, along with his car, computer, wallet and other effects.
Juliano was the founder of the Freedom Theatre. He was an Israeli citizen, the son of a Jewish mother and therefore a Jew in the eyes of the Jewish state. But his father was a Palestinian from Nazareth, and Juliano was a passionate believer in the Palestinian cause. He would often say he was ‘ per cent Palestinian and per cent Jewish’, but in
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