The Continuing Potency Of Naji al-Ali

What's striking about this long article discussing various accusations against political authorities on the general issue of suppressing Palestinian demonstrations is that one of the events that led to the protests being staged was apparently something in memory of the cartoonist Naji al-Ali, who was assassinated in 1987 in London. I'm probably being hyper-sensitive, but it's weird to me that al-Ali would be the subject of such a memorial about a month after the anniversary of his death. This leads me to think it's a pretty potent symbol that can be used as the reason for a demonstration in a floating, capricious way like that. I'm likely wrong.
 
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