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Meet the Palestinian Mandela
MARIA DUARTE recommends a compelling documentary that exposes the vengeful cruelty towards Palestinians ingrained in Israel’s legal and penal systems
Marwan Barghouti

Tomorrow’s Freedom (12A)
Directed by Sophia Scott and Georgia Scott
★★★★

 


 
“MARWAN BARGHOUTI is somebody who has the potential for leadership, but the Israelis put him in jail and threw away the key, didn’t they,” says Lindsey Hilsum (international editor Channel 4 News), the only Western journalist to have interviewed in prison the man described as the Palestinian Nelson Mandela and who is widely believed to be capable of unifying the Palestinian people.

He has spent more than two decades in an Israeli prison, three in solitary confinement (being beaten and tortured), convicted of murder and declared a terrorist.

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