Posts Tagged ‘Ahed Tamimi’

Viral images of Palestinian boy’s brutalization brings backlash: The ‘Pallywood’ smear

Israel’s defenders on social media are pushing a “Pallywood” narrative in reaction to the video gone viral documenting a soldier’s brutal treatment of a child in the occupied village of Nabi Saleh last Friday. Shortly after the UK’s Daily Mail publicized the incident, it revamped its headline, claiming Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi was a “prolific ‘Pallywood […]

Meet the teenage girls behind the viral photo from Nabi Saleh

Palestinians rush an Israeli soldier detaining a boy during a demonstration in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, August 28, 2015. (Photo: Mohamad Torokman/Reuters) “The pictures went viral. That’s important,” Ahed Tamimi, 14, said, “so the world can see what happens.” Ahed is the blond teen on the far left of the widely-published […]

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