Israeli Journalist Amira Hass Sparks Furor at Home for Defending Palestinian Right to Resist

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Source: Democracy Now

snip* AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, while Secretary of State Kerry was visiting Israel, Israeli soldiers shot a Palestinian photographer in the face with a rubber-coated metal bullet in the Aida refugee camp in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Mohammad Waleed Al-Azza was shot during clashes that took place between Israeli soldiers invading the camp and local youths who were hurling stones at them.

Another journalist, Israeli journalist Amira Hass, has suffered a torrent of hate mail and calls for her prosecution after she wrote an article defending the rights of Palestinians to resist violent occupation. In the article, Amira Hass defends the throwing of stones by Palestinian youth at Israeli soldiers, calling it, quote, "the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule," unquote. Amira Hass says Israelis remain in denial about, quote, "how much violence is used on a daily basis against Palestinians. They don’t like to be told that someone has the right to resist their violence," she wrote.

Well, to talk more about the situation is the journalist herself. Amira Hass joins us now, Haaretz correspondent for the occupied Palestinian territories, the only Jewish-Israeli journalist to have spent almost 20 years living in and reporting from Gaza and the West Bank.

It’s great to have you with us here in New York, Amira.

AMIRA HASS: Thank you.

AMY GOODMAN: Talk about what this article said. You wrote it for Haaretz?

remainder: http://www.democracynow.org/2013/4/10/israeli_journalist_amira_hass_sparks_furor

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1. Thanks it's an interesting interview