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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Anti-Apartheid activist and Nobel Prize winner Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s legacy of advocacy for Palestinian human rights made him a target of pro-Israel groups. Some of Israel’s biggest supporters, who attack those with similar views, joined in on praising Tutu following his passing, but are failing to purge the South African icon’s legacy of its true character. “When you go to the Holy Land and see what’s being done to the Palestinians at checkpoints, for us, it’s the kind of thing we experienced in South Africa,” Desmond Tututold the Washington Post in 2013. Unlike some of his peers, Tutu’s …