Gaza thwarts Israeli propaganda with Twitter
Gaza City 3 December 2012
Hashtags declaring solidarity with Palestine are proving many times more popular than pro-Zionist ones. Read more about Gaza thwarts Israeli propaganda with Twitter
Gaza City 3 December 2012
Hashtags declaring solidarity with Palestine are proving many times more popular than pro-Zionist ones. Read more about Gaza thwarts Israeli propaganda with Twitter
16 November 2012
On Israeli campuses, Palestinians calling for peace confronted with calls for “death to the Arabs.” Read more about “May your children die, you dogs”: As Gaza burns, Israelis bay for blood in streets of Tel Aviv
29 August 2012
Palestinian-American chef Sameh Wadi recently experienced the sort of Zionist indignation that can unfold from proudly displaying Palestine’s place on a pre-1948 globe-map of the world. Read more about Palestinian-American celebrity chef attacked over pre-1948 map of Palestine
28 June 2012
The Electronic Intifada is more infuential in “digital diplomacy” than most Israeli leaders, an Agence France Presse survey finds. Find out who else is on top! Read more about The Electronic Intifada beats most Israeli leaders in Twitter influence: AFP
10 April 2012
Merseyside Police in the UK have reportedly arrested a former cadet who shocked Twitter users with anti-Muslim outbursts, racial epithets and tweets expressing joy at the deaths of more than a hundred Pakistani soldiers in an avalanche. Read more about UK's Merseyside police arrest former cadet for anti-Muslim Twitter tirade
1 April 2012
In the course of illegally banishing hunger striker Hana al-Shalabi to the Gaza Strip, Israeli occupation forces used Twitter to commit an additional breach of international law. Read more about On top of banishment to Gaza, Israel uses Twitter to further violate Hana al-Shalabi's rights
20 March 2012
I am getting sick of the idea that the Israeli army spokespersons are allowed to tweet wrong information, mock dead people, tweet outdated Read more about Israeli army official speakers misinform their readers on Twitter
5 March 2012
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. Read more about Social Media Principles Behind the Khader Adnan and Love Under Apartheid Campaigns
21 February 2012
Yesterday, I published a piece in Al-Akhbar English about the twitter campaign to get more people to learn about and support khader Adnan’s hunger strike. Last night, hashtag #HungerStrikingfor65days was the strongest hashtag yet, thousands tweeted using that hashtag and it remained #1 globally trending topic for over an hour. Twitter has got millions of people to pay attention to Khader Adnan’s case online. Read my piece below for more on this virtual protest. Read more about Khader Adnan, a Globally Trending Topic on Twitter
20 February 2012
American actress and comedian Roseanne Barr and former Obama administration State Department official Anne-Marie Slaugher are among the latest people to join criticism of Israel’s use of administrative detentions of Palestinians highlighted by the 65 day hunger strike of Khader Adnan as global attention, solidarity grow. Read more about Roseanne Barr and former Obama official join criticism of Israel as Khader Adnan on day 65 of hunger strike