“What do you do with the clothes your wife was wearing when she was killed, now stained with her blood? How do you preserve them as evidence for an investigation that may never happen?”
A painful opinion piece by Hamid Ali, widower of #Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi
https://thehill.com/opinion/international/5039207-aisenur-ezgi-eygi-killed-israel/
A statement from University of Washington faculty on the murder of our student Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi in #Palestine. Ayşenur was one of the lead organizers of #UW’s encampment protests against the #Gaza #genocide. She’d spent most of her life in #Seattle.
This comes from the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures, where she had just completed a minor. We are outraged and grieving. May this be the end of institutional silence. #aysenur #aysenurezgieygi #israel
‘She came here out of love’:
Palestinians, allies honor activist slain by Israeli army
Eyewitnesses recount the killing of Turkish-American Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi at a protest in Beita, decrying Israel’s efforts to scare off international activists…..
https://www.972mag.com/aysenur-ezgi-eygi-funeral-beita/ @palestine @israel
American killed in West Bank was longtime activist ‘bearing witness to oppression’ #AysenurEzgi
The professor said the two met when he was giving a guest lecture in a course on feminist cinema of the Middle East and he spoke of his own experience protesting in the West Bank in 2013.
“I had no idea she would then be inspired to take on a similar experience,” he said, recounting how she reached out to him for advice as she prepared to join the International Solidarity Movement. “I tried to discourage her, but from a very weak position, since I’d already done it myself. She was very, very principled in her activism in this short life that she lived.”
In her final academic year, she devoted significant time “researching and speaking to Palestinians and talking about their historical trauma”, Fani said. “She was incredibly well-informed of what life was like in the West Bank. She was not a naive traveler. This experience was the culmination of all her years of activism.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/sep/06/aysenur-eygi-american-killed-west-bank @palestine @israel
#Aysenur #Gaza #Westbank #Activism #Solidarity #Israel #Palestine
Yep, some of my photos from the event 👇🏿
Around 500-1000 ppl were in attendance with several close friends of Ayşenur speaking and many more watching on.
The location, Alki Beach, was a spot Ayşenur and her friends had tried to have a bon fire earlier in the summer but were stopped by park rangers (they made a new park curfew lately). They had planned to have a better beach party when Ayşenur returned, so this was a nod to those plans.
Attached: 4 images Crowd is standing room only. Latest updates are that Joe Biden finally acknowledged the murder of Ayşenur Eygi but is taking Israel's explanation at face value. https://www.instagram.com/p/C_yMDSFvbB1/ #AysenurEygi #JoeBiden #Seattle #PNW #FreePalestine
"Seven Days After Israeli Forces Kill American, Biden and Harris Haven’t Spoken to Victim’s Family"
“So, it’s a bit frustrating, because what kind of investigation are you doing if you aren’t even talking to the people who are right next to her when she was killed.”
“Like the olive tree she lay beneath where she took her last breaths, Ayşenur was strong, beautiful, and nourishing. Her presence in our lives was taken needlessly, unlawfully, and violently by the Israeli military.”
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