Editing Marwan Barghouti (section)

=== 2017 hunger strike and prison education programme ===
In April 2017 he organized a hunger strike of Palestinian security prisoners in Israeli jails.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/world/hunger-strike-puts-jailed-palestinian-in-spotlight |title=Hunger strike puts jailed Palestinian in spotlight |work=Fox News |agency=Associated Press |date=21 April 2017 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref> In an op-ed for ''[[The New York Times]]'', Barghouti said that the hunger strikers sought to end the "torture, inhumane and degrading treatment, and medical negligence" to which prisoners were subject.<ref name=":8">{{cite web |first=Marwan |last=Barghouti |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/opinion/palestinian-hunger-strike-prisoners-call-for-justice.html?_r=0 |title=Why We Are on Hunger Strike in Israel's Prisons |work=New York Times |date=16 April 2017 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref> A list of demands issued by the strikers included access to telephones to communicate with their families, increased visitation rights, and a series of steps to address medical negligence.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-04-23 |title=On seventh day: Mass hunger strike continues despite escalation |url=https://www.addameer.org/news/seventh-day-mass-hunger-strike-continues-despite-escalation |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=www.addameer.org |language=en}}</ref> They also included access to books and newspapers and an end to the practices of solitary confinement and administrative detention.

On 7 May, the [[Israel Prison Service]] released videos allegedly showing Barghouti hiding in the toilet stall of his cell while eating cookies and candy, then trying to flush the wrappers. The videos were recorded on 27 April and on 5 May, a period during which almost 1,000 of Barghouti's fellow prisoners were refusing all food.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-39843196 |title=Palestinian hunger strike leader Barghouti 'filmed eating' |work=BBC |date=8 May 2017 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/05/08/did-hunger-striking-palestinian-prisoner-barghouti-just-eat-some-cookies-israel-says-he-did/ |title=Did hunger striking Palestinian prisoner Barghouti just eat some cookies? Israel says he did. |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=8 May 2017 |access-date=17 June 2024}}</ref> Anonymous sources in the prison service confirmed the authenticity of the videos, saying that the food was made available to Barghouti to test his adherence to the hunger strike. Barghouti's attorney refused to respond to the videos, while his wife claimed that they had been "fabricated" to discredit him. Israeli media reported that this was not Barghouti's first time being caught secretly breaking a hunger strike, and that in 2004 he had been photographed hiding a plate after eating off it in his cell.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.787803 |title=Israel Releases Footage of Palestinian Hunger Strike Leader Barghouti Eating in His Prison Cell |work=Haaretz |date=8 May 2017 |access-date=17 June 2024 |first1=Yaniv |last1=Kubovich |first2=Jack |last2=Khoury}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4958906,00.html |title=Barghouti's wife: 'Recordings of Marwan breaking the strike are fake' |newspaper=Ynetnews |date=8 May 2017 |access-date=17 June 2024 |first=Elior |last=Levy}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=2017-05-08 |title=Prisons Official Admits: We Lured Hunger Striking Barghouti with Candy |url=https://www.jewishpress.com/news/politics/prisons-official-admits-we-lured-hunger-striking-barghouti-with-candy/2017/05/08/ |work=Jewish News Service |access-date=2024-07-08 |language=en-US}}</ref> According to Haaretz's Amos Harel, among Palestinians, the episode "only strengthened his image as a leader who is feared by Israel – which resorts to ugly tricks in order to trip him up,".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-01-11 |title=Israel Averts One Crisis With End of Palestinian Prisoners' Hunger St… |url=https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-05-28/ty-article/.premium/israel-averts-crisis-with-end-of-hunger-strike-now-gaza-looms/0000017f-f88a-d044-adff-fbfbe8760000#selection-1205.2-1205.158 |access-date=2025-03-23 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240111003009/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2017-05-28/ty-article/.premium/israel-averts-crisis-with-end-of-hunger-strike-now-gaza-looms/0000017f-f88a-d044-adff-fbfbe8760000#selection-1205.2-1205.158 |archive-date=2024-01-11}}</ref> The hunger strike ended after Israel conceded a second family visit for each prisoner per month.<ref name=":5" />

Barghouti has organised a programme to provide education to his fellow prisoners. In a 2014 interview he stated:<blockquote>I teach and lecture on a variety of topics in various disciplines, including at the university level. . . There are dozens of prisoners who never had the chance to be educated at the secondary or university level and who want to pursue their education. I have been in charge of teaching them and we’ve achieved good results in both foreign language instruction and university syllabuses with the help of some of my fellow detainees.<ref name="Interview-JPS2014">{{Cite journal |date=2014 |title=INTERVIEW WITH MARWAN BARGHOUTI: Life and Politics in Prison, National Unity, and the Resistance |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/jps.2014.43.4.57 |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=43 |issue=4 |pages=57–65 |doi=10.1525/jps.2014.43.4.57 |issn=0377-919X}}</ref></blockquote>