Tag Archives: Electronic Intifada

Would I have been defended against smears if I was Palestinian?

Armin Rosen’s attack on Mondoweiss has garnered two responses in The Atlantic pushing back hard on Rosen’s smear. But would high-profile journalists push back the same if the target of the “anti-Semitism” smear was someone who was not Jewish or white?

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Social media ‘tidal wave’ helped turn world’s focus to Khader Adnan

A look at how online activism brought massive attention to Khader Adnan’s story

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New ‘NYT’ bureau chief Jodi Rudoren faces outcry from Israel advocates over Twitter messages

The fast and furious reaction to Jodi Rudoren’s Twitter messages, and what it says about ardent advocates for Israel.

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Haneen Zoabi: Palestinians citizens of Israel are ‘struggling for a normal state . . . which is a state for all of its citizens, [in] which the Palestinians and the Israeli Jews can have full equality.’

Ali Abunimah has an interesting and wide ranging interview with Israeli MK Haneen Zoabi up on Electronic Intifada. Zoabi has been public enemy number one in Israel since taking part in the Freedom Flotilla last Spring. Most recently, she was … Continue reading

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Obama continues Bush policy promoting anti-democratic crackdown in the West Bank

Nathan Thrall has a great article in the current issue of the New York Review of Books on an issue that has received scant attention in the US press – US support for Salam Fayyad’s anti-democratic crackdown in the West … Continue reading

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New Reut Institute ‘case study’ tacit admission that BDS is working

When the well-connected Israeli policy group, the Reut Institute, released a February 2010 report on what it labeled the "delegitimization challenge" from the global Palestine solidarity movement, Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada pointed out that the report "never considers … Continue reading

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