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Why There Is No "Palestinian Nelson Mandela"
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1:23Now PlayingNelson Mandela gives a speech in Gaza in 1999. South African journalists Sean Jacobs and Tony Karon discuss his misunderstood position on political violence and how it's wrong to ask why there's no "Palestinian Nelson Mandela" today.
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Sean Jacobs is Professor of International Affairs and Director of the Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. He is the founder of Africa is a Country, a site of criticism, analysis and new writing. The writer Teju Cole described Africa Is a Country as "basically the inside of my head." His book, Media in Postapartheid South Africa: Postcolonial Politics in the Age of Globalization, was published on May Day 2019. He was born in Cape Town, South Africa, where he worked for the Institute for Democracy in South Africa and as a journalist. He has been awarded Fulbright, Shorenstein, Commonwealth, Africa No Filter, and Shuttleworth fellowships.
Tony Karon was born and raised in South Africa, where he was an activist in the anti-apartheid liberation movements. He is editorial lead at AJ+ and worked at Time.com for 15 years.
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