Abunimah is a prophet without honor in his parents’ land

Pulse has posted an interview with Ali Abunimah that was conducted by a reporter for Haaretz, Rehaviya Berman, several weeks ago. Haaretz did not run the interview, and Berman then published it on his blog (once again demonstrating the importance of the internet in degrading consensus-building media). It’s a great interview. It reveals Abunimah as a generational leader among Palestinians and Palestinian-Americans, it openly discusses Abunimah’s personal connection to the Nakba through his parents’ experience, and its apparent suppression speaks to the incredible fear that even liberal left Jews/Israelis have about anti-Zionism. We wrote a week or so back that Abunimah is marginalized in the western press. It’s true for Israel too.