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Blog Entries by Jillian York from 12/2009

The Story of One Palestinian Family: Displaced, Dispossessed, Separated

| Posted 12.23.2009 | World
Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Mohammad Alsaafin, Palestine, West Bank, Gaza, Israel, Israel-Palestine, World News

Mohammad Alsaafin is a Palestinian refugee, from the village of Fallujah which lies in what is now Israel. He has never visited the village; his gran...

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Gaza Freedom Marchers Warned by Embassies

| Posted 12.27.2009 | World
Read More: Gaza, Gaza Freedom March, Canada, Israel, Portugal, Egypt, Gfm, World News

The Gaza Freedom March, an international caravan for peace set to culminate in a nonviolent march alongside the people of Gaza on December 31 to end t...

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Fighting Hate...With Hate?

| Posted 12.27.2009 | Technology
Read More: Israel, Hate Speech, The JIDF, Antisemitism, Hasbara, Jidf, Technology News

Author's Note: The JIDF requested that I correct a couple of errors: First, that they do not boast of receiving 100,000 hits per month, and second, th...

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Sex, Obama, and a Mauritanian Dissident

| Posted 12.31.2009 | World
Read More: Mauritania, Arab World, Obama Cairo, Arabs, Obama Cairo Speech, Hanevy Ould Dahah, Barack Obama, President Obama, World News

Hanevy Ould Dahah has been sitting in jail for six months for publishing an anonymous comment from a woman which read "I want to have sex...I am free" on Taqadoumy, the popular site Hanevy edits.

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