From the Editors

Highlighting important stories on and off The Electronic Intifada.

Photo: Gun-toting Israeli soldier disguised as Palestinian woman

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/16/2011 - 04:20
A photo published by The New York Times depicts an undercover Israeli agent, dressed as a Palestinian civilian, being loaded into an Israeli police vehicle after “helping detain a Palestinian protester” during today’s Nakba anniversary protest at Qalandiya checkpoint between Ramallah and Bethlehem.

Interactive map of Palestine villages destroyed in Nakba

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 15:01

The Electronic Intifada has produced this interactive map that allows you to see information about any of the more than 400 Palestinian cities, towns and villages depopulated and destroyed during the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Zionist and later Israeli forces from late 1947 into 1948.

Update on the freezing of the Abudayyeh family's accounts

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Tue, 05/10/2011 - 16:05

Yesterday, The Electronic Intifada reported that the US government has frozen the bank accounts of Hatem Abudayyeh, a Palestinian community leader in Chicago, and his wife, Naima:

EI's Ali Abunimah on "reconciliation" deal in Al Jazeera English

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Mon, 05/09/2011 - 15:53

In an oped for Al Jazeera English today, The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah takes a deeper look at the “reconciliation” deal signed by Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah in Cairo last week and argues that contrary to the hopes of many Palestinians it may be a dead end:

Palestinian civil society leader Ameer Makhoul arrested one year ago today

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Fri, 05/06/2011 - 17:26
A year ago today, Palestinian civil society leader Ameer Makhoul, an Israeli citizen, was arrested from his Haifa home after it was raided by Israeli forces. Makhoul, the coordinator of Ittijah, the Union of Arab Community Associations and an advocate of boycott, divestment and sanctions, warned The Electronic Intifada in January of 2010 that Israel was increasingly persecuting the Palestinian community in Israel, attempting to cut the community off from the rest of the Palestinian national movement. “Israel uses its legal system and its laws on citizenship and loyalty to the Jewish state to achieve this,” Makhoul said.

EI's Ali Abunimah on Arab uprisings at Al-Awda convention

Submitted by Maureen Clare Murphy on Thu, 05/05/2011 - 22:06

The Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abunimah participated in last week’s Annual International Al-Awda Convention in Anneheim, California. Anayat Durrani reports for the Egyptian publication Al-Ahram Weekly, “A major focus of the convention was the Arab people’s mass uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa and their relevance to the Palestinian struggle.”

Ali Abunimah told the conference:

Listen again: Lina Sharif, Fadi Quran, Ali Abunimah on Palestinian "unity" deal

Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 16:29

EI’s Ali Abunimah, and youth leaders Lina Sharif in Gaza and Fadi Quran in the West Bank analyzed the Hamas-Fatah “unity” deal announced yesterday. The briefing was organized by the Institute for Middle East Understanding, and the guest host was Yousef Munayyer of the Palestine Center.

EI video of Olmert protest goes global

19 October 2009

The Electronic Intifada’s exclusive footage of the multiple disruptions of former Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s speech in Chicago last week has now been seen by millions all over the world. EI’s exclusive video report of this event, posted on YouTube, had 100,000 views and had been reposted or cited as a source by news organizations all over the world.

An ideal medium for a stateless people

Ali Abunimah
26 February 2009

This month The Electronic Intifada, an independent online publication about Palestine and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, marks its eighth anniversary. When we started, the co-founders did not realize that we were engaging in an early experiment in what is now called “new media” or “citizen journalism” before those terms were coined. The Electronic Intifada co-founder Ali Abunimah writes for bitter-lemonsinternational.org.

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