Palestinian Emigrants to the United States - Alex Odeh, Bashar Masri, Bissan Rafe, Emily Jacir, Farouk Shami, Hanna Batatu, Hans Kohn, Ibrahim Abu-Lugh (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Alex Odeh, Bashar Masri, Bissan Rafe, Emily Jacir, Farouk Shami, Hanna Batatu, Hans Kohn, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Ignatius Ghattas, Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad, Ismail al-Faruqi, Jamal Dajani, Jamal Nassar, Mansour F. Armaly, Mohammed Amer, Mosab Hassan Yousef, Munir Nayfeh, Nihad Awad, Samih Farsoun, Sirhan Sirhan, Susan Abulhawa, Taysir Abu Saada, Victor Norris Hamilton, Yousef Munayyer, Ziad Asali. Excerpt: Sirhan Bishara Sirhan (Arabic:, born March 19, 1944) is a Jordanian citizen who was convicted for the assassination of United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy. He is currently serving a life sentence at Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, California. Sirhan is a Christian Palestinian Arab who was born in Jerusalem and who strongly opposed Israel. In 1989, he told David Frost, "My only connection with Robert Kennedy was his sole support of Israel and his deliberate attempt to send those 50 bombers to Israel to obviously do harm to the Palestinians." Some scholars believe that the assassination was the first major incident of political violence in the United States stemming from the Arab Israeli conflict in the Middle East. In 2011, his defense attorneys filed motions for a new trial, arguing Sirhan "should be freed from prison or granted a new trial based on 'formidable evidence', asserting his innocence and 'horrendous violations' of his rights." Sirhan is a Christian Arab with Jordanian citizenship born in Jerusalem, Mandatory Palestine. When he was 12 years old, his family emigrated, moving briefly to New York and then to California. He attended Eliot Junior High School (now known as Charles W. Eliot Middle School) in Altadena, California, John Muir High School and Pasadena City College. Sirhan's father, Bishara, was characterized as a stern man who often beat his sons harshly. Shortly after the family's move to California, Bishara returned alone to the Middle East. As an adult, Sirhan changed church denominations several times, joining Baptist and Seventh-day Adventist churches, and also allegedly dabbling in the occult. He was employed as a stable boy in 1965 at the Santa Anita race track in Arcadia, California. Sirhan has retained his Jordanian citizenship and has not become a U.S. citizen. On June 5, 1968, Sirhan fired a .22 caliber Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver at Senator Robert Kennedy and the crowd surrounding him in the Ambassador Hot