A West Bank Family on the Verge of Annexation
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour. A co-production of WNYC Studios and the New Yorker. This is the New Yorker radio hour. I'm Claire Malone. You might remember a story from a little more than a year ago.
When three college students were shot while walking down the street in Burlington, Vermont. Burlington is generally known as a safe, very liberal college town. The young men were Palestinians from the West Bank, attending schools in the North East. Two of them were wearing kafias, the Palestinian headscarf. And so the shooting was assumed by many people to be a hate crime.
though the suspect hasn't been charged with that by prosecutors. The victims all survived. A reporter named Suzanne Gapper has been talking with one of them since shortly after the attack. His name is Hishem Aur Tani. Suzanne went to the West Bank recently to visit the Alwartani family.
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