From time to time, the Palestine Center distributes articles it believes will enhance understanding of the Palestinian political reality. The following article by Murtaza Hussain was published by The Intercept on June 23, 2016.
Last month, a group of students at the University of California, Irvine gathered to protest a screening of the film Beneath the Helmet, a documentary about the lives of recruits in the Israeli Defense Forces. Upset about the screening of a film they viewed as propaganda for a foreign military, the students were also protesting the presence of several IDF representatives who were holding a panel discussion at the screening. That student protest has since become the subject of intense controversy.
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