Ghazi-Walid Falah
A colleague of mine—Palestinian-born geographer Ghazi-Walid Falah—has been detained by the Israeli state since July 9 without charge, and without access to a lawyer. His apparent alleged crime: taking pictures in a restricted area (a tourist beach).
Ghazi-Walid gave a lecture to my beginning students last Fall about the intersections of culture, globalization, and the Palestinian conflict. Not surprisingly for a geographer, he showed a lot of pictures, and the students seemed to get a lot out of the exchange.
More here.
Update: the court lifted the gag order on the case, and the story is covered here. It’s a sad state of affairs when people can be detained without apparent evidence, and without charge, on the mere suspicion of some connection to terrorism.
