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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/02/13/im-ahed-tamimis-cousin-israel-needs-to-stop-imprisoning-kids-like-her/?utm_term=.02b46b35333a “I’m Ahed Tamimi’s cousin. Israel needs to stop imprisoning kids like her.” By Nour Tamimi February 13 Washington Post Nour Tamimi is a journalism student and activist from Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank. “I had barely fallen asleep when I woke to find an armed Israeli soldier hovering over my bed. He […]
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Sarah Silverman stands by Ahed Tamimi: ‘Do you wonder where her rage comes from?’
February 21st, 2018 
Awake Goy A plea for Ahed Tamimi’s protection
February 20th, 2018 Awake Goy The Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick of Che Guevara black and red portrait fame has done it again: He has painted a minimalist poster of another iconic leader of her people and of a worldwide liberation movement, this time of an oppressed child who had slapped power with her bare truth. When I read his rationale […]
‘Great Concern’: Chile Calls on israel to Release Ahed #Tamimi
February 18th, 2018 Awake Goy ‘Great Concern’: Chile Calls on Israel to Release Ahed Tamimi The Palestinian Federation in Chile calls for Ahed Tamimi’s freedom: ‘Will Chile say something?’ (Photo: via Twitter) Amid a campaign by the large local Palestinian community, the Chilean government expressed Friday its “great concern” over the case of Palestinian iconic teen Ahed Tamimi, who is […]
Journalists, diplomats kicked out of Ahed #Tamimi’s trial
February 15th, 2018 Awake Goy Despite Ahed Tamimi’s request for her trial to be open to the public, military judge rules that it will take place behind closed doors. By Oren Ziv Ahed Tamimi during the first hearing of her trial at the Ofer prison military court. February 13, 2018. (Oren Ziv/Activestills.org) Dozens of diplomats, journalists, photographers, and supporters arrived at the […]
Why the Experience of Ahed #Tamimi Matters So Much
February 15th, 2018 Awake Goy Why the Experience of Ahed Tamimi Matters So Much It is now known by virtually everyone who follows the Palestinian struggle that a 16 year old girl, now 17, named Ahed Tamimi, confronted Israeli soldiers on her family’s land shortly after her cousin, Mohammed, was shot in the face with a rubber bullet, causing a […]
Ahed Tamimi remains in Israeli prison as "trial" adjourned
February 14th, 2018 Awake Goy Ali Abunimah Rights and Accountability 13 February 2018 Bassem Tamimi sits in Ahed Tamimi’s bedroom holding a poster of his daughter, in their home in the occupied West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, 28 January. Ahed’s trial in an Israeli military court began on 13 February. Sara Lemel DPA More than two dozen prominent US […]
UN Slams israel for Jailing Ahed #Tamimi
February 14th, 2018 Awake Goy UN Slams Israel for Jailing Ahed Tamimi Michael Lynk: ‘Israel detains and prosecutes between 500 to 700 Palestinian children in military courts annually.’ (Photo: MEMO) Israel is violating the international Convention on the Rights of the Child by detaining a Palestinian teenager for slapping an Israeli soldier, UN human rights experts said on Tuesday. After […]
‘Israel must release Ahed Tamimi,’ Amnesty International says
February 13th, 2018 Awake Goy Amnesty International called for Israeli occupation authorities “to immediately release teenage Palestinian activist Ahed Tamimi,” a statement said on Monday. The statement said that Tamimi’s “continued detention is a desperate attempt to intimidate Palestinian children who dare to stand up to repression by occupying forces.” It added: “Ahed Tamimi’s trial is due to start tomorrow […]
Israeli military court to try Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi
February 13th, 2018 Awake Goy Palestinian teen Ahed Tamimi is to go on trial before Israeli military court on Tuesday for slapping and punching two heavily armed Israeli soldiers in courtyard of her house. The act of slapping and punching heavily armed Israeli soldiers embodies David vs Goliath struggle against a brutal military occupation. Israel’s full-throttle prosecution of Tamimi, 16, […]
Prominent actors, musicians, and authors demand Ahed #Tamimi’s release
February 13th, 2018 Awake Goy Prominent actors, musicians, and authors demand Ahed Tamimi’s release Danny Glover, Rosario Dawson, Cornel West, Angela Davis and others sign letter demanding Israel release the 17-year-old Palestinian from custody. By +972 Magazine Staff Ahed Tamimi in the Ofer prison military court. December 20, 2017. (Oren Ziv/Activestills) Dozens of major American actors, athletes, musicians, scholars, and […]
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No Comments »Turkish minister meets father of Ahed Tamimi jailed by Israel
February 8th, 2018 Awake Goy The Turkish Minister of Youth and Sports met on Wednesday with father of Palestinian girl Ahed al-Tamimi, who was abducted from her bed by Israeli security forces last year. Osman Askin Bak met with al-Tamimi’s father Basim during his visit to Palestine. The Turkish minister told Anadolu Agency that he delivered the Turkish people and […]
‘Death to Ahed Tamimi’: Israeli settlers vandalize Nabi Saleh
February 5th, 2018 Awake Goy Bethlehem, occupied West Bank — On Thursday night, when residents of Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank were sound asleep in their homes, Israeli settlers crept through the village’s streets, vandalizing walls with graffiti threatening jailed teen activist Ahed Tamimi and her family. Some of the graffiti reads: “Death to Ahed Tamimi,” “There’s no […]
Rabbi Lynn Gottlieb: Ahed Tamimi right to slap a soldier after years of trauma & assaults
February 4th, 2018 Awake Goy The Jewish political map is far from a monolith. Anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian lefty Jews have gained prominence and attention due to public relation successes on the international arena as well as the Netanyahu government’s escalation of anti-Democratic legislation, targeting of human rights’ groups, persecution and expulsion of African refugees, and its endorsement and collaboration with […]
Sick society: Israeli lawmaker tells BBC he’d hospitalize Ahed Tamimi by kicking her face
February 4th, 2018 Awake Goy Israeli lawmaker Oren Hazan of the Likud Party was interviewed by the BBC on Wednesday, in a news report about Ahed Tamimi titled “Is a slap an act of terror?”. Hazan opined that “a slap is terrorism” and described his response: “If I was there, she would finish in the hospital. For sure. Nobody […]
Posted in World News Tags: hospitalize, israeli, kicking, lawmaker, society, tamimi, tells No Comments »Four Days in Palestine: My Time with Bassem Tamimi by Miko Peled
February 4th, 2018 Awake Goy My own daughter is one year younger than Ahed. I would lose my mind, I think to myself — but I never lived under military rule, under occupation, so I don’t know how to keep my composure when facing this sort of thing. After about an hour I see the camera crews starting to come […]
Israeli lawmaker tells BBC he’d put Ahed Tamimi ‘in the hospital’ by kicking her face
February 3rd, 2018 Awake Goy Israeli lawmaker Oren Hazan of the Likud Party was interviewed by the BBC on Wednesday, in a news report about Ahed Tamimi titled “Is a slap an act of terror?”. Hazan opined that “a slap is terrorism” and described his response: “If I was there, she would finish in the hospital. For sure. Nobody could stop me. […]
Worldwide mobilization marks Ahed Tamimi’s 17th birthday
February 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy As evening turned to night in New York on January 30, Ahed Tamimi’s seventeenth birthday had already reached its early morning hours in Israel. She, along with a monthly average of 300 fellow child prisoners, entered her late teens isolated behind bars. But she did not spend the day alone. At the height of rush […]
‘They’re trying to punish us through our children’: A report from Nabi Saleh on Ahed Tamimi’s 17th birthday
February 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy Driving into the village of Nabi Saleh, north of Ramallah in the West Bank, the Israeli Defense Force (IDF) have already closed the main gate of entrance. It’s nearly dark and a handful of the village’s youth are still clashing with soldiers in the field beyond the gate. As the soldiers turn their back to […]
‘We are proud of her’: Palestinian teenagers on the importance of Ahed Tamimi
February 2nd, 2018 Awake Goy Bethlehem, occupied West Bank — Ahed Tamimi, a prominent teen activist, turned 17 on Wednesday in Israel’s HaSharon prison, where she has been held for more than a month. Last month, Israel’s military court in Ofer detention center near Ramallah ruled to keep both Ahed and her mother Nariman in prison until the end of their […]
Israeli Military Court Delays Trial of Ahed Tamimi
January 31st, 2018 Awake Goy An Israeli court has postponed the trial of Palestinian teenager Ahed Tamimi and her mother to 6 February, according to the Palestinian Information Centre. Israel’s Ofer military court, located west of the West Bank city of Ramallah, delayed the trial yesterday that was originally scheduled to take place to tomorrow. Tamimi, a resident of Nabi […]
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