Bay Area friends and allies are mourning the killing of a Palestinian human rights activist who was denied entry to the United States at San Francisco International Airport last month.

Awdah Al-Hathaleen was shot and killed Monday by an Israeli settler, according to Phil Weintraub, an organizer with the Palestinian Solidarity Committee at the Kehilla Community Synagogue in Piedmont, which sponsored Al-Hathaleen’s aborted visit.

“It’s unfathomable to process,” Weintraub told KQED. “Friend, father, brother, parent of three sons, teacher. He didn’t want to be an activist. It was thrust upon him in order to protect his community.”

Weintraub said witnesses identified Yinon Levi, a “well-known” Israeli settler, as the shooter. Footage posted on X shows a man identified as Levi firing his

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