{"id":2466,"date":"2011-04-06T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T21:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2466"},"modified":"2011-12-31T09:35:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T20:35:09","slug":"freedom-theatre-founder-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=2466","title":{"rendered":"Freedom Theatre founder killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Horrible: one of the founders of Palestine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedomtheatre.org\/\">Freedom Theatre<\/a> has been killed in Jenin, in the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juliano_Mer-Khamis\">Juliano Mer Khamis<\/a>, an Israeli of Arab and Jewish parentage, was shot dead by masked gunmen in Jenin. (NOTE: before you make an assumption, this almost certainly was nothing to do with Israel, and indeed a member of Hamas has apparently been arrested).<\/p>\n<p>The Freedom Theatre is a great initiative, building peace through creative expression (and, crucially, giving young people something to pour energy into that isn&#8217;t the intifada). When Cal and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apocalypse.gen.nz\/palestine\/\">visited Palestine in 2004<\/a> we visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alrowwad-acts.ps\/\">Al Rowwad Theatre Society<\/a> in Aida camp, which was affiliated with the Freedom Theatre. It was a very humble environment, but everyone we met was committed to using performance and creativity as building blocks to a greater peace. As a result of that visit I&#8217;ve been on the main Freedom Theatre mailing list for years, and in January got their announcement of their new show, an adaptation of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedomtheatre.org\/news.php?id=169\">Alice in Wonderland<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, this is a terrible event. From this distance I don&#8217;t expect to ever know or understand how it came to happen. It is clear however that the path to peace, difficult enough already, has just been made more challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Jones has <a href=\"http:\/\/motherjones.com\/mixed-media\/2011\/04\/tribute-murdered-jewish-palestinian-hero\">a good article<\/a>, covering Khamis&#8217; acting and filmmaking as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Horrible: one of the founders of Palestine&#8217;s Freedom Theatre has been killed in Jenin, in the West Bank. Juliano Mer Khamis, an Israeli of Arab and Jewish parentage, was shot dead by masked gunmen in Jenin. 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