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An Israeli army video features smiling groups of Israeli soldiers saying “Like the IDF on Facebook.” But a spoof of the video makes it much more realistic, depicting the Israeli army as it really is.

The social media efforts which recently brought global attention to Palestinian nonviolent resistance (Khader Adnan) and to the impact of Israeli occupation on Palestinian intimate and family relationships (Love Under Apartheid) did not do so by chance. Neither effort could have succeeded without a sound understanding of several key social media concepts. Although several news articles and blog posts have reported on these campaigns, none have yet explored the question of why the efforts were effective.

After today’s bus crash which killed a number of Palestinian children, many Israelis on Facebook reacted with joy. Others expressed strong revulsion at such racism.

A judged handed down lengthy prison sentences yesterday to three young US Muslims who were convicted of vague terrorism conspiracy charges.

Danny Danon, a member of the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, is proposing that all Israeli citizens – especially the 1.4 million Palestinian citizens of Israel – should be forced to declare an oath of loyalty to the political ideology of Zionism as a condition for obtaining an ID card.

A new Israel propaganda video uses a Facebook motif to present Israel as the eternal victim of unremitting violence and enmity while skipping over Israel’s record of ethnic cleansing, occupation, colonization, violence and official hatred against Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims.

Palestinian analysts continue to hotly debate the Palestinian Authority’s UN “statehood” bid

The New York Times has told The Electronic Intifada it stands fully behind an article by its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner despite compelling evidence that the article contains fabrications, misleading statements, and gross exaggerations.