“A Disturbed Individual, not a Martyr”
“A Disturbed Individual, not a Martyr”
Sirhan Sirhan’s Impact on Arab American Activism
This chapter explores the increasingly hostile climate faced by Arab American activists by examining Sirhan Sirhan and how his assassination of Robert F. Kennedy, his trial testimony about Palestine, and the U.S. media’s treatment of Sirhan and the Israel-Palestine conflict affected the environment for Palestinian activism in the United States.
Keywords: Sirhan Sirhan, Robert F. Kennedy, Abdeen Jabara, assassination, media, Israel-Palestine conflict, terrorist
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