Jamal Awil

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Parallel injustices surface five days apart across continents [fact]

Sometimes, the connections are so obvious that little effort is needed to make them. Five days after George Floyd was killed, an autistic Palestinian man walking to his special-needs school in the Old City of Jerusalem was gunned down by Israeli police.

QUESTION: The author implies an obvious parallel between Floyd's murder and the Jerusalem killing. Worth noting what connects these — police violence against marginalized people.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1126