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‘Pallywood’: A particularly ugly ethnic slur
And a very popular one among right-wing Israelis and Diaspora Jews. I’ve been writing for years against the “Pallywood” theory – the right-wing notion that videos showing Palestinians getting killed by Israelis are really elaborate fakes meant to blacken Israel’s name. Yet it’s only this morning I realized that the term “Pallywood,” which was coined…
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Larry Derfner
November 15, 2014
On the al-Dura affair: Israel officially drank the Kool Aid
A look at the right-wing conspiracy-nut thinking that informed this week’s blue-ribbon report on the infamous 2000 killing of a Palestinian boy in Gaza. In the 13 years since Muhammad al-Dura was killed in an Israeli-Palestinian shootout in Gaza while cowering behind his father, masses of right-wing Jews have eagerly embraced a conspiracy theory of…
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Larry Derfner
May 22, 2013
Disputed 2nd Intifada affair resurges in French court, HuffPost
Nearly 12 years later, the most indelible incident of the Second Intifada – in which Muhammad al Dura died in his father’s arms – is rehashed on the pages of the Huffington Post in an article that whitewashes the facts for the sake of saving Israel from bad publicity. By Rechavia Berman Something strange is…
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February 28, 2012
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A child is dead: Charles Enderlin on the ‘Al-Dura incident,’ 10 years later
This article was originally published in October 2010. I am republishing it following the Israeli government’s publication of its definitive report on the incident, in which it absolves the army of responsibility for the boy’s death. I’ve added two new paragraphs at the end. In September 2000, on the second day of the Second Intifada,…
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Lisa Goldman
October 10, 2010
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