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Footage of the Muhammad al-Dura shooting (Screenshot: France 2)
‘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…
By Larry Derfner November 15, 2014
CCTV cameras capture IDF shooting of two Palestinians during a Nakba Day protest outside Ofer Prison.
Day of catastrophe for ‘Pallywood’ conspiracy theorists
Naming and shaming. Following Wednesday’s arrest of a Border Policeman on suspicion of murdering a Palestinian teenager in a May 15 Nakba Day protest, here is a partial list of Israeli and pro-Israel figures who insinuated that the video of the shooting (which also showed the killing of another teenage protester) had been fabricated: Defense…
By Larry Derfner November 13, 2014
Footage of the Muhammad al-Dura shooting (Screenshot: France 2)
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…
By Larry Derfner May 22, 2013
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A conservative defense for Apartheid & colonialism
Some stuff you have to read with your own eyes in order to believe it. Prof. Richard Landes, who writes a pro-Israeli conservative blog named Augene Stables, is making what seems like a comparative case for Israeli colonialism. Answering a reader’s question regarding the legality of the Israeli settlements in the West Bank, Landes writes:…
By Noam Sheizaf March 11, 2011
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