Aziz Dweik, Ibrahim Sarsour and Olive Tree Initiative

Jerry Gordon, writing in New English Review, has followed up his article (cross-posted here) on the arrest of Hamas member Aziz Dweik with a related posting on Dweik and Ibrahim Sarsour and their connections with the Olive Tree Initiative. I am cross-posting it here in the interest of fully disclosing the figures that OTI students are meeting with on their trips. The below link contains a video of a Sarsour speech.

http://www.newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm/blog_id/40155#CurDomainURL#/blog.cfm

Below, Vlad Tepes blog has the same Sarsour speech with translation courtesy of Walid Shoebat.

http://vladtepesblog.com/?p=43226

So when you hear the OTI defenders tell you how they meet with members of Israel's Knesset, that statement needs to be qualified.

Here is my question: If Israel is such an oppressive, apartheid state, how is it that they have Arabs like Sarsour in the Knesset?