Mustafa Barghouti
Palestinian physician and politician (born 1954)
Mustafa Barghouti (Arabic: مصطفى البرغوثي, pronounced [musˤtˤaˌfaː‿l.barˈɣuːθiː]; born 1 January 1954) is a Palestinian physician, activist, and politician who serves as General Secretary of the Palestinian National Initiative (PNI), also known as al-Mubadara, and head of the Palestinian Medical Relief Society.
He has been a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council since 2006 and is also a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Central Council.
In 2007, Barghouti was Minister of Information in the Palestinian unity government. He is an advocate of the use of non-violence and civil disobedience to confront Israel's illegal occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.
Early life and education
Mustafa Barghouti was born 1 January 1954 in Jerusalem. His family is from what is today Bani Zeid, a municipality of over 6,000, founded in 1966 when the villages of Deir Ghassaneh and Beit Rima merged during Jordanian rule. He grew up in Ramallah and his father was the municipal engineer for the nearby village of Al-Bireh. Barghouti has said that his family "has always been very political, very active," noting that under the Mandate, his grandfather and great-uncle "were jailed by the British." He has said that he "grew up surrounded by internationalist, progressive literature," and has described his family's politics as always being "shaped by opposition to social injustice, rather than by nationalism." His father, he has noted, "used to speak to us of his Jewish comrades in Tiberias or Acre."
He has said that he was "reshaped" by the Six-Day War. "I felt a huge amount of responsibility. My childhood ended then.
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