Poet, Author, Civil Rights activist Alice Walker says “The Gaza Flotilla is the Freedom Ride of This
There are strong historical parallels between the Freedom Riders of the 1960s in the South and the Freedom Flotillas protesting Israeli mistreatment of Palestinians in the 21st Century.
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