16 July 2002
On Monday July 15, Israeli forces invaded the offices of the main Palestinian Internet service provider, PALNET, in Ramallah. They shut down its services to the West Bank and Gaza Strip for 24 hours and arrested six employees. Read more about Israeli forces break into Palestinian internet provider
12 January 2001
“Salwa Ziada would like to keep learning about computers and the Internet, but Israeli-imposed curfews keep the Palestinian girl from reaching the community computing center set up for refugees like her.” Oscar S. Cisneros reports for Wired News. Read more about The Trouble With Wiring Palestine
12 January 2001
Curfews, fighting and economic embargoes — all part of the Palestinian struggle for statehood — have delayed the implementation of their “state” on the Internet, the dot-ps top level domain. Oscar S. Cisnerosv reports for Wired. Read more about Dot-PS: Domain Without a Country
23 August 2002
Law professor and pro-Palestinian agitator Francis Boyle expected to have a lot of e-mail waiting for him after his two-and-a-half-week vacation. But he never imagined that there would be 55,000 messages packing his inbox — many of them hurt, even belligerent, notes from friends and fellow activists. The message that supposedly came from Boyle was a forgery — one of thousands sent out in the names and from e-mail addresses of prominent advocates for the Palestinians — designed to sow dissension, create confusion and waste time in the activist community. Noah Shachtman reports in Wired. Read more about Return to Sender -- 55,000 Times
16 July 2002
“For hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, getting to work, school or the market has been virtually impossible since Israel’s latest anti-terror campaign began. Now, they won’t be able to get online, either. Early Monday morning, Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) troops took over the offices of Palnet, the leading Palestinian Internet service provider, shutting down the firm’s operations.” Noah Shachtman writes in Wired. Read more about Israel blocks Palestinian ISP
1 May 2003
“From September 29, 2000 through March 27, 2003, the violence in occupied Palestine and Israel claimed the lives of at least 419 Palestinian and 93 Israeli children under the age of 18. Remember These Children lists these 512 children side by side. The documentation, though painful, conveys the personal reality of these terrible statistics. Arranged chronologically by date of death, each entry includes the child’s name, hometown, how the child was killed, and, where available, the location of the fatal injury. ” A new website provides searing and powerful reminders of the urgent need for increased activism and educational outreach on the question of Palestine. Read more about "Remember These Children" website commemorates murdered Palestinian and Israeli children
27 February 2003
Americans are turning to the Internet in record numbers for news and opinion, underscoring in new ways the Web’s powerful, global reach as the United States prepares for war. By the millions, they are going online to get up-to-the minute news, read reports in the foreign and alternative press, and check out so-called “warblogs,” electronic diaries pushing myriad views on the conflict with Iraq, reports Mary Anne Ostrom for The Mercury News. Read more about Net plays big role in war news, commentary
27 February 2003
EI founder and Internet consultant Nigel Parry offers a brief introduction to the Internet as an alternative news publishing medium, outlining key recent trends in online publishing and their implications for online news publications such as The Electronic Intifada. Read more about The Internet as an alternative news publishing medium
10 October 2002
Pro-Palestinian activists have found themselves on the receiving end of increased harassment this last year. In this article from The Nation, Abby Aguirre looks at the phenomenon. Read more about Palestine Activism Spammed
27 September 2002
In which Hannah Brown of The Jerusalem Post says “EI…is very professional, user-friendly and well written…the Electronic Intifada is the Palestinian CNN” Read more about Surfing the Net: Virtual war