If I May Unwarrantedly Impose

myself (again) on a political situation about which I am probably still unqualified to make serious commentary...some bad news out of Jenin this week featured the assassination of Juliano Mer-Khamis, a Palestinian actor and activist, who was one of the heads of the Freedom Theater in the Jenin Refugee Camp.

As you may know, I visited Jenin and the Freedom Theater last summer and wrote about the burgeoning cultural activity there despite its past notoriety as a bastion of violence and extremism during the Second Intifada. I found the mood at the theater very hostile to Israel and intently focused on forging a Palestinian identity through culture, which is why the news that Mer-Khamis was killed by his own people is exceptionally galling.

Curious to see where this story goes.