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November 10, 2015

A Palestinian Family That Systematically Uses Its Children for Propaganda

With help from Amnesty International.

Since at least 2011, Bassem Tamimi, a resident of the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, has organized regular “non-violent” protests in which women and children—including Tamimi’s own—taunt, threaten, and sometimes physically attack Israeli soldiers stationed nearby. The goal is to produce footage of the IDF manhandling unarmed women and children. When Israel offered to provide the village with access to a nearby spring, as demanded in Tamimi’s original complaint, he led the village in rejecting the offer. Despite his own support for terrorism, Tamimi is eagerly abetted by Amnesty International. Petra Marquardt-Bigman writes:

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