A Palestinian student was shot in Vermont after his father told him to stay in the US, per NPR. His father said he thought he would be safer in the US than in the West Bank, his mother told NPR. AdvertisementA Palestinian student who was shot in Vermont was told by his father to stay in the US because he thought he would be safer, according to NPR. My husband "thought our son would be safer [in the US] than in Palestine," Elizabeth Price told the outlet. Awartani, a mathematics and archaeology student at Brown University, was one of the three Palestinian students shot on Saturday in Burlington, Vermont, as Business Insider previously reported .

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