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Honoring Those Like Barghouti Distances Peace
(New Haven Register) Honoring Omar Barghouti with a peace prize is tragically misguided. The BDS movement is built on subterfuge. It exploits progressive viewpoints to undergird an openly hostile agenda to Israel's very existence. Barghouti and other co-founders of BDS have made clear time and again that they reject a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, reject Israel's right to exist as a Jewish state, and will only accept a single state where Palestinians have total sovereignty. Giving Barghouti a peace prize is an insult to the memory of Mahatma Gandhi. Norman Ravski, M.D., president; Judy Alperin, CEO; Arthur L. Levy, M.D., Israel chairman; Rabbi Joshua Ratner, director, Jewish Community Relations Council, Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven.