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October 30th, 2015 
Awake Goy Rudoren: “I’ve seen little nonviolent popular resistance in my time here.”
Doesn’t that raise the obvious question–where, exactly, is “here”? Where does Rudoren spend most of her time, and with whom?
Anyone who spends time in the Palestinian West Bank can, without any trouble, find nonviolent popular resistance. I did, and I joined it. When I was there in 2013, I joined Mahmoud Zwahre’s group in Ma’asara.
link to alethonews.wordpress.com
He’s not hard to find–except when he’s in an Israeli prison.
Rudoren herself has written about this particular issue:
Go there on just about any Friday afternoon and you’ll find people from Al Arroub Refugee Camp protesting in front of the compound. Has she been there? Has she checked?
Has she been to the Christian Peacemaker’s Offices in Hebron? I was there in August. It’s staffed by Palestinians.
The work they do is heroic, but I haven’t seen them mentioned in the New York Times. They speak perfect English, by the way. Conversations with them might have improved the superficial BS that passes for reporting in this article:
I think she should also stop hiding behind the evasive dodge of not having seen “mass demonstrations.” Try to have a “mass demonstration” in front of, say, Ma’ale Adumim and see what happens to you. The only place to have it is about 100 yards from an Israeli military base. The IDF enters Area B towns on virtually no provocation–a fact that Rudoren has not bothered to report. I was in Abu Dis on August 1-2 of this year when the IDF came to town. No Rudoren, no NYT write-up. Evidently, there’s more in Palestine than is dreamt of by the New York Times.
I spent two months this past summer at Al Quds University. The University is teeming with nonviolent activism, including its Human Rights Clinic and its entire social work apparatus. I lived in the building where the social workers’ offices sit, and I spent time with them, talking about their activism. I didn’t see Rudoren or anyone else from The New York Times there. Nor did anyone expect them to show up. In fact, I didn’t see any Americans there at all. The only foreigners who showed up were from Europe.
Has Rudoren had a conversation with either Lucy or Sari Nusseibeh?
The last time the NYT mentioned Lucy Nusseibeh was in 2012, when it reported that the IDF had violently raided her non-violent TV station.
Maybe it’s time to pay a call?
Does Rudoren know who Nassar Ibrahim is in, Beit Sahur?
Maazen Qumsiyeh in Bethlehem?
Has she been to the Ar-Rowwad Community Center in Aida Refugee Camp? Or the Phoenix Community Center in Deheishe?
How is it that I managed to visit all of these places during the 10 or so weeks I’ve spent in Israel/Palestine (while holding down teaching responsibilities), but Rudoren doesn’t seem to have heard of them at all?
Though Gaza isn’t centrally at issue, does the work of Izzeldine Aboueilash or the Gaza Community Health Center not count as non-violent Palestinian activism? Were Khader Adnan and Muhammad Allan not nonviolent activists? If not, how is it that the Israeli authorities practically lost their minds over their hunger striking?
Source Article from http://mondoweiss.net/2015/10/palestinians-intifada-defense
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