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Arab Barghouti, activist: ‘Israel doesn’t want a Palestinian leader who believes in peace’

8 June 2026 at 16:59
Arab Barghouti at the Eurostars Plaza Mayor hotel in Madrid, June 3.

Arab Barghouti (Jerusalem, 35) says that “at the end of the day” he does not think of Marwan Barghouti as a politician, nor as the Palestinian leader of the Second Intifada (2000–2005), who was sentenced by Israel to five life terms in a trial full of irregularities 24 years ago. He thinks of himself as the son who wants his father “to come home.”

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The son of Marwan Barghouti, last Wednesday in Madrid, where he met with representatives of several parliamentary groups.

Ndaba Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s grandson: ‘As a child I wanted to live in a prison, like my grandfather’

Ndaba Mandela, Nelson Mandela’s grandson, in a restaurant in Madrid.

Ndaba Mandela was a child when he first met his grandfather, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate and leading anti-apartheid activist in South Africa Nelson Mandela, and he grew up at his side. Born in Soweto (Johannesburg) 43 years ago, he is now a political scientist who promotes his grandfather’s legacy as president of the Mandela Institute for Humanity, and was in Spain on Monday to support the Alliance for the Future of Education, an initiative to renew the focus on learning in particularly challenging times.

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Ndaba Mandela in El Bancal.
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