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Israel to Reinvestigate Police Shooting of U.S. Activist Tristan Anderson
By Henry Norr A year ago. Israeli Border Police shattered the skull of Tristan Anderson with a high-velocity tear gas canister as he stood unarmed following a weekly demonstration against Israel’s Separation Wall in the West Bank village of Nilin. Since then, his family, friends, and supporters around the world continue the struggle to hold Israel accountable. Anderson, a now-39-year-old resident of Oakland, California, still lies in the Tel Hashomer hospital outside Tel Aviv, where he was … Read entire article »
Filed under: Human Rights Activists in the Crosshairs