Tariq Abu Khdeir goes to Washington — and finds surprising supportFEATURED Posted by Sam Knight Tariq Abu Khdeir speaking on Capitol Hill A lawyer representing Tariq Abu Khdeir said Friday that “there is a lot of support” from officials in Washington for the 15-year-old and his family. “Clearly, there is not as much support as there would be had Tariq been an Israeli-American child who was attacked by Hamas,” Hassan Shibly, an attorney and executive director of the Council on American Islamic Relations, told me. “Nonetheless, we’re beginning to see change.” Members of the Abu Khdeir family and Shibly traveled to the nation’s capital to appeal to American officials to seek justice for Tariq, a U.S. citizen, and their Palestinian relatives in the West Bank. The Palestinian-American teenager was arrested without charge and beaten by Israeli policemen after being detained in occupied East Jerusalem on July 3. Two weeks later, about fifty members of the Abu Khdeir family were arrested without charge just after midnight on July 17, less than 24 hours after Tariq returned to the United States. Shibly said that the family has met with Congressional staffers, the State Department and members of the White House National Security Council. Some staffers, he said, were moved to tears by Tariq’s story. mondoweiss.net/2014/08/washington-surprising-support.html
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