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Hisham Awartani

Hisham Awartani (2003-) was a Palestinian man and Brown University student who was, on 26 November 2023, shot and wounded by Jason J. Eaton in Burlington, Vermont while talking with his friends Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, in an apparent anti-Palestinian hate crime. Two of the three men were wearing black-and-white Palestinian keffiyeh scarves (symbols of Palestinian nationalism) at the time of the attack, and they were accosted for their clothing and for their speaking of Arabic before being attacked.

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