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Omar Barghouti
In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “founding committee member of the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel”. Today it says “qatari-palestinian who is a founding committee member of the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural”.
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Omar Barghouti ( Arabic : عمر البرغوثي , born 1964) is a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and a co-founder of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement. He received the Gandhi Peace Award in 2017.
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In 2005 Wikipedia's first sentence called it “founding committee member of the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel”. Today it says “qatari-palestinian who is a founding committee member of the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural”. Read the current article and compare.
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Then
founding committee member of the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural boycott of israel
Now
qatari-palestinian who is a founding committee member of the palestinian campaign for the academic and cultural
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