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Ahed Tamimi: Symbol of courage and leadership

Nothing has been more inspiring than to watch 16 year old Ahed Tamimi, a young girl standing in front of her home in Nabi Saleh, confronting heavily armed Israeli soldiers mocking them with slaps and telling them to eave her family alone. Tamimi has become the face of a new Palestinian, one fearless in standing up to the brutality of the Israeli Apartheid machine

By Ray Hanania

Nothing has been more inspiring than to watch 16 year old Ahed Tamimi, a young girl standing in front of her home in Nabi Saleh, confronting heavily armed Israeli soldiers mocking them with slaps and telling them to eave her family alone.

Tamimi has become the face of a new Palestinian, one fearless in standing up to the brutality of the Israeli Apartheid machine.

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A video of Ahed pushing and mocking the two heavily armed Israeli soldiers as they stood in front of their home has gone viral. More importantly it is inspiring a new movement, one that can overcome Israeli hatred, Israeli racism and Israeli atrocities against Christians and Muslims in occupied Palestine.

Poster of Palestinian hero Ahed Tamimi after she was arrested for trying to protect her family from the Israeli military.
Poster of Palestinian hero Ahed Tamimi after she was arrested for trying to protect her family from the Israeli military.

Tamimi was later arrested after the video embarrassed the Israeli government and enraged Israeli racists like Avigdore Lieberman, Naftali Bennet and virulently anti-Arab racist Ayelet Shaked have all screamed about Ahed’s courage.

Israel claims to be a “democracy” but in fact it discriminates against non-Jews denying basic civil and human rights to Christians and Muslims, except those who surrender and embrace Israel’s government’s racist ideology and policies.

Here is a letter from Ahed’a father, civil rights activist Bassem Tamimi followed by a letter from Jewish Voice for Peace Deputy Director Ari Wohlfeiler that you should read and share with others:

Palestinian Hero Ahed Tamimi, who confronted heavily armed soldiers who had shot her younger cousin, and was protesting settler terrorists who were stealing Palestinians property and lands.
Palestinian Hero Ahed Tamimi, who confronted heavily armed soldiers who had shot her younger cousin, and was protesting settler terrorists who were stealing Palestinians property and lands.

Tuesday morning at 3am, Israeli forces invaded my home and arrested my daughter.  They dragged Ahed out of bed, handcuffed her and put her in the back of their military jeep. She is 16-years-old.

The next morning, my wife went to the police station to be with our daughter as she was interrogated. But Israel took her into custody as well. The following day, they arrested my 21-year-old niece Nour.

This is too much! Israel must immediate release the Tamimi women! They must stop their persecution of my family.

All of this started with last Friday when soldiers in my village shot 15-year-old Mohammed Tamimi directly in the face with a rubber coated steel bullet. Following surgery, Mohammad had to be placed in a medically-induced coma. Then the soldiers came to our home. Ahed and Nour slapped the soldiers in the face and pushed them back, yelling that they could not enter our home.

The Israeli military is threatened by our regular protests, by our refusal to live with occupation.

Ahed appeared in court yesterday. Her detention was extended because she is refusing to talk. No cooperation with the occupation! Nour and my wife, Nariman, appeared in military court today. Their detention was also extended until at least Monday. Ahed, Nariman and Nour are being held Hasharon prison. Ahed is being held with Israeli prisoners and Nariman and Nour are being held with Palestinian prisoners. Even though Ahed is not in the same section of the prison as her mother and cousin, she is remaining strong and determined.

Tell the Israeli military to release my family and end their 50 year long occupation of our land.

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It is our responsibility to resist the soldiers who enter our village and settlers who occupy our land and resources. For our family’s work, I have been recognized by the European Union as a Human Rights Defender. At the age of 13, my daughter won the Handala award for Courage in Turkey. Amnesty International, during one of my imprisonments, declared me a prisoner of conscience. Each week, my wife helps lead our anti-occupation demonstration. Now her resistance takes place from the inside of an Israeli jail.

Tell the Israeli military to release my family and end their 50 year long occupation of our land.

People and organizations around the world from Youth Against Settlements in Palestine to Jewish Voice for Peace, CODEPINK and others in the US are supporting us. They are writing press releases, making phone calls and standing by our side.

Tomorrow, Friday, Dec. 22, 2017, at 12pm EST, (7pm Palestine time) there will be a twitter storm with the hashtag #FreeAhedTamimi. I thank everyone for their support and hope my family will be free soon.

Jewish Voice for Peace statement

It’s getting so I’m afraid to check my news feed. I don’t want to see Israeli forces dragging away another young child to military detention— the casual frequency of these arrests is sickening, every time.

But this is the reality of Israeli occupation.

Many of us saw the images of young Ahed Tamimi being taken away by Israeli occupation forces Tuesday morning. Ahed is a high school student who has grown up under occupation in the small town of Nabi Saleh, known for its weekly nonviolent marches against occupation and settler encroachment.

Please take a minute to thank Representative Bobby Rush for co-sponsoring H.R. 4391 and trying to end the military detention of children.

What would I do if I was Ahed? I hope the same thing she and her family do each week: stand up for my loved ones, my community, and my rights.

The news didn’t show that Ahed’s cousin was in a coma after being shot in the head by a rubber-tipped steel bullet.  Or that there’s a new bullet hole in my family’s window. Or that Ahed’s father, mother, and cousin are all under arrest.

Instead, the Israeli press is trying to make her out as the villain for kicking at and pushing full-grown soldiers with guns and helmets.

What can we do? What can regular, caring people in the U.S. do?

For one, you can thank Representative Bobby Rush for co-sponsoring H.R. 4391 and trying to end the military detention of children— and ask them to speak out specifically on this latest outrage.

Because what Ahed and her family are going through isn’t unique— it’s systemic. The Israeli government seems to be targeting children with a special intensity. Our allies at Defense for Children International – Palestine document that around 700 Palestinian children are arrested and held each year,  and many charged without a parent or guardian present.

Just recently, 16-year-old Fawzi Al-Junaidi was beaten and arrested during a protest in Hebron over Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and 17-year-old Abdul-Khalik Burnat of Bil’in was beaten and arrested (for the third time this year) while getting pizza with friends.

This is all illegal under international law, but the Israeli government is getting away with it. 

And what are these children’s crimes? Being Palestinian. Under occupation, that’s more than enough.

Take a moment and stand with the children of Palestine, because when we support children, we’re supporting communities and their futures.

You can also share this image:

And you can be one of the people who said no, this is wrong, this can’t go on.

Thank you.

Ari Wohlfeiler, Deputy Director of Jewish Voice for Peace

 

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Ray Hanania is an award winning political and humor columnist who analyzes American and Middle East politics, and life in general. He is an author of several books.

Hanania covered Chicago Politics and Chicago City Hall from 1976 through 1992 at the Daily Southtown and the Chicago Sun-Times. He began writing in 1975 publishing The Middle Eastern Voice newspaper in Chicago (1975-1977). He later published “The National Arab American Times” newspaper (2004-2007).

Hanania writes weekly columns on Middle East and American Arab issues as Special US Correspondent for the Arab News ArabNews.com, at TheArabDailyNews.com, and at SuburbanChicagoland.com. He has published weekly columns in the Jerusalem Post newspaper, YNetNews.com, Newsday, the Orlando Sentinel, Houston Chronical, and Arlington Heights Daily Herald.

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