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Opinion American Dollars Must Not Be Spent On Ahed Tamimi’s Arrest
Last month, Israeli soldiers invaded the home of 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi in the middle of the night and carted her off to detention in handcuffs. The teenage activist, from the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, has lived every day of her life under the brutal boot of Israeli military occupation. She has witnessed settlers…
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Opinion Why Is No One Talking About Ahed Tamimi’s Call For Stabbings?
The sight of a young, unarmed woman standing up to heavily armed soldiers will always be a powerful one. This was certainly the case with a recent video seen around the world — that of Ahed Tamimi, the teenaged Palestinian girl who stood against the mighty IDF and was subsequently arrested. Who could resist the…
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Opinion Israel Is Now Jailing Palestinians For Posting On Facebook
Israeli authorities rang in the New Year by turning to a tool of repression fit for the social media age: locking up Palestinians for Facebook posts. On January 1, Israeli military prosecutors indicted Nariman Tamimi, a mother and activist famous for leading the village of Nabi Saleh’s struggle against Israeli military occupation and land confiscation….
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Opinion Who Is Ahed Tamimi?
16 year old Ahed Tamimi has now been indicted on five charges of assault for slapping and kicking an Israeli soldier. In the pages of outlets like Ha’aretz, +972, Mondoweiss and Al Jazeera she has been hailed as a brave rebel, courageously saying “No!” to the occupying Israeli military. In the meantime, “pro-Israel” organizations and…
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Opinion How I Came Face To Face With Palestinian Nonviolent Resistance
This compressed, rundown Arab village with roots that date back thousands of years to the biblical prophet Zachariah, now surrounded by a dozen gleaming Jewish settlements, may not appear like an obvious place to witness Palestinian nonviolent resistance. But it is there, if you look and listen carefully. It’s in the low-slung, trailerlike building that…
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Fast Forward Dozens Wounded As Thousands Of Palestinians Protest Donald Trump
Over 50 people were injured in clashes with Israeli military during a “day of rage” protest in Gaza against President Donald Trump, Reuters reported. Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets in Gaza and the West Bank to protest Trump’s decision this month to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Protesters in Gaza chanted,…
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Opinion Lorde’s Canceled Israel Concert Reveals The Hypocrisy Of BDS
Lorde began racking up praise and awards for her debut album, Pure Heroine, before she’d even hit her 18th birthday. Listening to her poetic yet sharp-tongued lyrics, combined with her soulful voice, one reflexively assumed she had spent decades meticulously reflecting on her own passing youth; in fact, she was barely old enough to buy…
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Opinion Thank You, Lorde, For Standing Up For Palestinian Human Rights
When I heard that the internationally acclaimed singer, songwriter and record producer Lorde was reconsidering a decision to play in Israel I had a gut feeling that she would cancel the show. This weekend, she did just that. “[I]’ve received an overwhelming number of messages and letters and have had a lot of discussions with…
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