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Posters and yard signs call for Israel to free 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi. Below are the facts about Ahed and other Palestinian prisoners, including a video about Ahed. U.S. taxpayers give Israel $10 million per day, which gives Americans the need to become informed on this issue and to speak out when we disagree with how […]
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Israeli court extends remand detention of Ahed Tamimi
January 30th, 2018 
Awake Goy An Israeli court extended remand detention of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi and her mother to 6 February, family sources reported on Monday. Israeli Ofer military court, located west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, delayed the trial on Monday that was originally scheduled to take place to tomorrow. Tamimi, a resident of Nabi Saleh […]
Israeli poet apologizes for comparing Ahed Tamimi to Anne Frank
January 30th, 2018 Awake Goy The Israeli poet Yehonatan Geffen caused great outrage in Israel when he posted a poem (on his Instagram) comparing Ahed Tamimi to iconic Jewish heroes during the Holocaust– Hanna Szenes and Anne Frank, alongside Joan of Arc–causing Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman to call for banning him completely from army radio, as well as all other […]
Tamimi: Israeli claim ‘we are actors is madness and stupidity’
January 29th, 2018 Awake Goy by Nathan Schmidt Israeli occupation officials claimed that Al-Tamimi family was not real in order to justify violence and oppression against the family members, including the 16-year-old brave girl –Ahed Tamimi. Former Ambassador to the US and Israel’s current Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister Michael Oren has reiterated allegations that the Tamimi family are […]
Israeli Defense Minister urges ban against poet for calling Ahed Tamimi a hero
January 25th, 2018 Awake Goy Poet and author Yehonatan Geffen is an iconic popular figure in Israeli culture since the 1970’s. I grew up as a toddler on his children’s books, and he has a lot to say to adults today. He is tongue-in-cheek and doesn’t mince his words. The kind of guy who calls out Netanyahu for being a […]
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No Comments »Major ad firm Outfront Media censors "free Ahed Tamimi" billboard
January 23rd, 2018 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Activism and BDS Beat 22 January 2018 Outfront Media’s staff created this design for a billboard calling for the release of Palestinian girl Ahed Tamimi, but it was rejected by corporate executives who claimed it was an “attack ad.” A major US ad firm is refusing to put up a billboard calling for the release of […]
Listen: How Israel "couldn’t bear" Ahed Tamimi’s slap
January 23rd, 2018 Awake Goy Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 21 January 2018 On The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi denied bail in an Israeli military court; Activists celebrate the closure of a New York City diamond store owned by Israeli billionaire and settlement profiteer Lev Leviev. “Ahed is strong, and she is keeping her spirits high,” […]
Listen: How Israel "couldn’t bear" Ahed Tamimi’s slap
January 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy Nora Barrows-Friedman The Electronic Intifada Podcast 21 January 2018 On The Electronic Intifada Podcast: Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi denied bail in an Israeli military court; Activists celebrate the closure of a New York City diamond store owned by Israeli billionaire and settlement profiteer Lev Leviev. “Ahed is strong, and she is keeping her spirits high,” […]
Free Ahed! Bassem Tamimi and Miko Peled Chat on One-Month Anniversary of the Slap
January 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy Posted on January 19, 2018 by Richard Edmondson Advertisements Filed under: Intifada, Nazi Israel, Occupation Terrorism, Palestine, Richard Edmondson | Source Article from https://uprootedpalestinians.wordpress.com/2018/01/22/free-ahed-bassem-tamimi-and-miko-peled-chat-on-one-month-anniversary-of-the-slap/
Aren’t Ahed and Nariman Tamimi women too?
January 20th, 2018 Awake Goy As thousands of women, and men, dust off their pink pussy hats ahead of this weekend’s anniversary Women’s March, we are seeing many of the divisions that riddled last year’s rallies surface again. Thankfully, we are also witnessing the emergence of a solid alternative to the shortcomings of imperial feminism. This is most obvious in […]
Bassem Tamimi on court decision to hold family members indefinitely: ‘we can’t expect anything else from the court, this is life under occupation’
January 18th, 2018 Awake Goy An Israeli military court ruled today to keep 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi and her mother Nariman in prison until the end of their trial. Ahed, a well-known Palestinian activist was detained a month ago after a video was published online of Ahed slapping and hitting two Israeli soldiers, yelling at them to leave her family’s property. The […]
Posted in World News Tags: bassem, court, decision, family, indefinitely, members, tamimi No Comments »After 30 days in jail, Ahed Tamimi’s detention is extended indefinitely
January 18th, 2018 Awake Goy An appropriate time to repost this .Perhaps this time dubakr can chime in and complain about his beloved illegal squatters doing their best to make the IDF look as bad as they can. “What Happened When a Jewish Settler Slapped an Israeli Soldier Both Ahed Tamimi and Yifat Alkobi were questioned for slapping a soldier […]
Israeli military court refuses to release Ahed Tamimi
January 18th, 2018 Awake Goy Tamara Nassar Rights and Accountability 17 January 2018 Ahed Tamimi, 16, is seen in the Ofer military prison near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, before a 17 January hearing at which an Israeli military judge ordered her to remain in prison until the conclusion of her military trial. Oren Ziv ActiveStills An Israeli […]
Israel declares the entire village of Nabi Saleh, home to Tamimi family, a closed military zone
January 17th, 2018 Awake Goy Israeli army declares Nabi Saleh, home to Tamimi family, closed military zone RAMALLAH (Ma‘an) 13 Jan — The Israeli army declared the central occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh — home to imprisoned teenage activist Ahed al-Tamimi — a closed military zone on Saturday, closing off all entrances and exits. Official Palestinian Authority (PA)-owned […]
US media reverse Ahed Tamimi’s reality
January 17th, 2018 Awake Goy Michael F. Brown Media Watch 15 January 2018 Ahed Tamimi began 2018 behind Israeli bars — as this protest in Gaza City emphasized. Ashraf Amra APA images When 16-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi stood up to Israeli occupation soldiers, she couldn’t have known just how much of her story mainstream US media would cut away and […]
What MLK’s ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’ tells us about Ahed Tamimi in a cold Israeli cell
January 16th, 2018 Awake Goy In recent weeks, several people have said that the liberal indifference to Ahed Tamimi’s detention in an Israeli prison for slapping an occupying soldier on December 15 is reminiscent of the white liberals in Martin Luther King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, written in 1963. Today, you can give yourself no better political lesson than […]
Ahed Tamimi should stay in prison because she might slap again — Israeli ethicist
January 16th, 2018 Awake Goy One month after she slapped a soldier in occupied Nabi Saleh, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi faces a final bail hearing today at court. Tamimi has been imprisoned since December 19 for the December 15 incident. The Israeli prosecution is trying to make Ahed Tamimi a terrorist. And now Israel’s greatest ethical authority (not by me though), […]
US media reverse Ahed Tamimi’s reality
January 16th, 2018 Awake Goy Michael F. Brown Media Watch 15 January 2018 Ahed Tamimi began 2018 behind Israeli bars — as this protest in Gaza City emphasized. Ashraf Amra APA images When 16-year-old Palestinian Ahed Tamimi stood up to Israeli occupation soldiers, she couldn’t have known just how much of her story mainstream US media would cut away and […]
Israel declares Nabi Saleh, home of Tamimi family, closed military zone
January 15th, 2018 Awake Goy Israeli occupation army declared central occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, home of imprisoned teenage activist Ahed al-Tamimi, closed military zone. Israeli occupation forces set up barriers on the main road that leads to Nabi Saleh and prevented Palestinians, including journalists, from entering the village. Bilal al-Tamimi, the uncle of 16-year-old Ahed, who was abducted […]
Liberal Zionists can’t talk about the shooting of Mohammed Tamimi
January 14th, 2018 Awake Goy As everyone knows, 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi slapped a heavily-armed Israeli soldier occupying her property in Nabi Saleh on December 15, and was arrested a few days later. She has now spent over three weeks in prison. ‘Ahed Tamimi, right, confronting an Israeli soldier at her home in occupied Nabi Saleh on Dec. 15, 2017. What […]
Israel arrests another Tamimi teenager
January 13th, 2018 Awake Goy Tamara Nassar Rights and Accountability 12 January 2018 Muhammad Bilal Tamimi smiling, raising a “victory” sign as Israeli occupation soldiers abduct him from his home on 11 January. Manal Tamimi Another member of the Tamimi family has been arrested by Israeli forces occupying the West Bank. Muhammad Bilal Tamimi, 19, was taken prisoner during a […]
Ahed Tamimi Speaks of Her Struggle: “All I Wish Is for Palestine to Be Free”
January 12th, 2018 Awake Goy Ahed Tamimi Speaks of Her Struggle: “All I Wish Is for Palestine to Be Free” In late 2016, investigative journalist Abby Martin had the opportunity to interview 16-year-old Ahed Tamimi. The two discussed the hardships of living under Israeli occupation as well as Tamimi’s future aspirations. It quickly becomes apparent why her oppressors are attempting […]
Ahed Tamimi offers Israelis a lesson worthy of Gandhi
January 10th, 2018 Awake Goy By Jonathan Cook in Nazareth Sixteen-year-old Ahed Tamimi may not be what Israelis had in mind when, over many years, they criticised Palestinians for not producing a Mahatma Gandhi or Nelson Mandela. Eventually, colonised peoples bring to the fore a figure best suited to challenge the rotten values at the core of the society oppressing […]
Hundreds Protest For Ahed Tamimi’s Release in New York’s Grand Central Terminal
January 9th, 2018 Awake Goy Hundreds on Friday gathered inside of Grand Central Terminal in New York, demanding the release of the 16 year old Palestinian activist Ahed al-Tamimi who was taken into custody by Israeli soldiers two week ago. Protestors chanted and carried banners reading “Release Ahed Tamimi Now”, “US has to stop helping Israel” and “Palestinian prisoners needs […]
Posted in World News, World Order, World Politics Tags: central, grand, hundreds, protest, release, tamimi, terminal No Comments »#Tamimi: Is slapping a soldier in the face worse than shooting a child in the face?
January 9th, 2018 Awake Goy With difficulty due to Israel’s many military checkpoints on Palestinian land, the teen was eventually taken to a hospital, where he underwent a six-hour procedure involving seven surgeons. The doctors removed the bullet, reconstructed his jaw and put him into an artificial coma for 72 hours. A Ha’aretz article reports: “The left side of his […]
The Story Behind Ahed Tamimi’s Slap: Her Cousin’s Head Shattered by Israeli Soldier’s Bullet
January 7th, 2018 Awake Goy Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Join 5,861 other followers Source Article from https://theuglytruth.wordpress.com/2018/01/06/the-story-behind-ahed-tamimis-slap-her-cousins-head-shattered-by-israeli-soldiers-bullet/
Posted in World News, World Politics Tags: behind, cousin, israeli, shattered, soldier, story, tamimi No Comments »Stop talking about Ahed Tamimi’s hair
January 7th, 2018 Awake Goy In the past three weeks, following the famous slapping of an Israeli soldier by Ahed Tamimi of Nabi Saleh, the remarks about Ahed’s looks have gained extra momentum. These remarks have often been disparaging ones. They are generally meant to suggest that there is really no content to the ‘hype’ around Ahed – that her appeal […]
Haaretz smears the Tamimi family to counter worldwide solidarity with 16-year-old Ahed
January 6th, 2018 Awake Goy Promote the blood libel? Check. Glorify terrorism? Check. Celebrate Israeli deaths? Check. Ahed Tamimi and her family aren’t fighting for peace, and they’re not just fighting the occupation: They’re fighting to destroy Israel, and their fight is seasoned with Jew-hatred ~ Haaretz 1/4/18 That is how Petra Marquardt-Bigman begins her article published yesterday in Haaretz, […]
Posted in World News Tags: counter, family, haaretz, smears, solidarity, tamimi, worldwide No Comments »The Story Behind Ahed #Tamimi’s Slap: Her Cousin’s Head Shattered by israeli Soldier’s Bullet
January 5th, 2018 Awake Goy Just before Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi slapped one of the soldiers who’d invaded her yard, she learned that her 15-year-old cousin Mohammed had been shot in the head at close range By Gideon Levy and Alex Levac, Ha’aretz Half a head. The left side of his face is twisted, swollen, fragmented, scarred; there’s congealed blood […]
Ahed #Tamimi Stood Up to israel While the Rest of the World Bows
January 5th, 2018 Awake Goy Ahed Tamimi Stood Up to Israel While the Rest of the World Bows It is one thing to salute Ahed Tamimi’s bravery and turn her into a heroine du jour, but real respect for her courage would be to make sure that neither she nor other oppressed and abused Palestinian children have to continue to […]
