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Samir El-youssef

Samir El-youssef is a Palestinian writer and critic who was born in 1965 in Rashidia, a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Since 1990 he has lived in London. Among his books is one co-written with the Israeli writer Etgar Keret, Gaza Blues: Different Stories (David Paul, 2004)

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Against boycott and its rhetoric: a reply to Omar Barghouti

“The actual meaning of ‘true peace based on justice’ is that Israel must be punished before a Palestinian is allowed to greet an Israeli in the street”. The Palestinian writer Samir El-youssef dissects the language of Omar Barghouti’s call for a boycott of Israel.