MK Haneen Zoabi: Israel's racist system is the enemy

So many people RSVPed to hear Haneen Zoabi that Students for Justice-NYU had to move the event to a larger auditorium -- and even that was filled to capacity on April 24. Abed Awad, a leader of the Palestinian-American Community Center that is sponsoring her North American tour, introduced her as the first Palestinian woman member of the Israeli Knesset, to which she was initially elected in 2009 on the Balad list. The Central Elections Committee tried and failed to disqualify her from running in two subsequent elections, but the Knesset, affirmed by the High Court, succeeded in suspending her for six months in 2014. Zoabi has been attacked in the Knesset and received many death threats.