Action Alert: US delays visa for BDS leader Barghouti on eve of tour  http://www.uruknet.info/?p=m75145&hd=&size=1&l=e

 Effectively canceling a planned speaking tour, the US consulate in Jerusalem has inexplicably delayed the granting of a visa for Omar Barghouti, founding member of the Palestinian Civil Society Boycott, Divestment, Sanction (BDS) campaign, due to tour the United States this April for the release of his new book, Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions: The Global Struggle for Palestinian Rights. Nobel Peace Laureate, Archbishop Desmond Tutu called the book "lucid and morally compelling ... perfectly timed to make a major contribution to this urgently needed global campaign for justice, freedom and peace...