.@haaretzcom editorial: “It seems Israel's military prosecutors have gone out of their way to prepare a substantial case against a 16-year-old girl for slapping soldiers, a girl who has spent her whole life under an occupation”
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@jrosyfield had exclusive access to a nearly two-hour interrogation video of#AhedTamimi from Dec. 26: “Ahed’s interrogation video shines a light on an experience that continues to scar and shape Palestinian society and politics.”#FreeAhedhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-interrogation-video-surfaces-of-palestinian-teen-activist-ahed-tamimi …Show this thread -
“The full video, viewed by the Associated Press, appears to show interrogators threatening Tamimi, who is currently serving prison time for hitting soldiers”
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Israeli occupation authorities denied "Ahed Tamimi's request for an early release from prison based on her refusal to express regret, her non-participation in any rehabilitation program and what it considered to be potential harm to public safety."https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Ahed-Tamimi-request-for-early-prison-release-denied-559301 …
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@skhojamoolji: "Why isn't Ahed a beneficiary of the same international outcry as@Malala? ... Ahed's suffering also exposes the West's selective humanitarianism ... Her girl power threatens to reveal the ugly face of settler-colonialism"#FreeAhedTamimihttps://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/west-praising-malala-ignoring-ahed-171227194606359.html …Show this thread -
“Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi has been released from Israeli prison after completing an eight-month sentence in a case that sparked international condemnation. Tamimi broke down in tears as an emotional crowd welcomed her in [her] village“https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/07/palestinian-ahed-tamimi-freed-jail-180729051621393.html …
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#AhedTamimi: “If they were not wrong, they would not be afraid of the truth. ... And I managed to deliver this truth to the world. ... they’re afraid how far I reached. They always fear the truth, they are the occupier, and we are under occupation.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/30/ahed-tamimi-i-am-a-freedom-fighter-i-will-not-be-the-victim-palestinian-israel …Show this thread -
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@AliAbunimah puts#AhedTamimi into the broader context of Israel’s brutal military occupation and subjugation of Palestinianshttps://youtu.be/iBBGfiKyE2MShow this thread -
“My courage was a normal reaction to the soldier being in my house, or on my land, or in my country, or shooting at my people. [...] the national activism should be aligned with social activism.”https://twitter.com/ajplus/status/1024906140117655552?s=21 …
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@leninology: “a sixteen year old girl is on trial in a military court, for slapping a heavily armed soldier. A protest more symbolically freighted than actually seriously inconveniencing the occupiers.”#FreeAhedAlTamimihttps://www.patreon.com/posts/16184859Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@BenEhrenreich: “Please don’t make Ahed a hero. Heroes, when they are Palestinian, end up dead or behind bars. Let her be a kid. Fight to set her free, so that one day she can be an ordinary woman, in an ordinary land.”#FreeTamimiWomen#FreeAhedhttps://www.thenation.com/article/ahed-tamimi-has-become-the-symbol-of-a-new-generation-of-palestinian-resistance/ …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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“The detentions of the Tamimis came amid a wave of almost 600 arrests of Palestinians by Israeli occupation forces since US President Donald Trump recognized Jerusalem as Israel’s capital on 6 December.”
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"He died shortly after the occupation forces fired a bullet into his neck”... Musab was a member of the Tamimi family... The family has been persecuted for years by the Israeli army which has detained and killed several of them”
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Noa Osterreicher: “Both Ahed Tamimi and Yifat Alkobi were questioned for slapping a soldier in the West Bank, but little else about their cases are similar — simply because one is Jewish, the other Palestinian”
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@Jonathan_K_Cook: "Ahed and Nabi Saleh have shown that popular unarmed resistance – if it is to discomfort Israel and the world – cannot afford to be passive or polite. It must be fearless, antagonistic and disruptive."#FreeTamimiWomenhttps://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/ahed-al-tamimi-s-incarceration-sheds-a-disturbing-light-on-how-children-are-targeted-in-israel-1.693716 …Show this threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Palestinian protesters demand
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