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Ahed Tamimi: Palestinian viral slap video teen goes on trial

Published

13 February 2018

A Palestinian teenage girl filmed slapping an Israeli soldier has gone on trial in an Israeli military court in a case which has split public opinion.

Ahed Tamimi, 17, is charged with 12 offences, including assaulting security forces and incitement to violence.

If convicted, she could face a lengthy jail term.

For Palestinians, Ms Tamimi is a symbol of resistance to Israeli occupation, but many Israelis regard her as a violent troublemaker seeking publicity.

Ms Tamimi arrived at the military court on Tuesday morning with her hands and feet in shackles, and wearing a prison jumpsuit.

Her father, Bassem, was waiting in the court room when she arrived, and urged her to "stay strong".

Journalists waiting to report on the trial were ordered to leave by the judge, on the grounds that the accused was being treated as a minor. Such cases are usually tried in private.

But in Ms Tamimi's case, this went against the wishes of the family.

"The court decided what is good for the court and not what is good for Ahed," her lawyer, Gaby Lasky, said outside the court.

"They understand that people outside Ofer military court are interested in Ahed's case. They understand that her rights are being infringed and her trial is something that shouldn't be happening.

"So, the way to keep it out of everybody's eyes is to close doors and not allow people inside the court for her hearings."

The case has been adjourned until March.

Viral video

Ahed Tamimi, then 16, was filmed by her mother, Nariman, shouting at and shoving two soldiers in the driveway of her family home in Nabi Saleh in the occupied West Bank on 15 December 2017.

The incident was streamed on Nariman Tamimi's Facebook page and video of the confrontation went viral.

In the footage she kicks one soldier and slaps his face, and threatens to punch the other.

Ahed Tamimi was arrested in a night-time raid days later. Her mother has also been charged with incitement on social media and assault, and her cousin, Nour, who participated in the incident, has been charged with assault.

The case sparked an outpouring of deeply opposing views between Israelis and Palestinians.

Following the incident, Israel's Education Minister Naftali Bennett said Ahed and Nour Tamimi deserved to "finish their lives in prison".

Many Israelis say Ahed Tamimi has long been exploited by her family, who they accuse of using her to try to provoke Israeli soldiers on film.

Two years ago, the teenager was seen in a viral video biting the hand of an Israeli soldier who had detained her brother on suspicion of throwing stones.

She was praised for her actions by then Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who presented her with a "courage" award.

Ahed Tamimi had first came to public prominence when, aged 11, she appeared in another video threatening to punch a different soldier.

Spotlight turns on viral slap video teen

For Palestinians, she has become a national icon for what they see as acts of bravery in standing up to armed soldiers on occupied land.

Her face has appeared on street murals and posters, while an online petition organised by her father calling for her release has gathered 1.7m signatures.

Special court

Ahed Tamimi said she lashed out at the soldiers whom she said she had seen in a video of her 15-year-old cousin being shot in the head with a rubber bullet that same day.

A rally in New York in support of Ahed Tamimi (30/01/18)

The Israeli military said it had dispatched the soldiers to the Tamimis' home, where Palestinian youths had been throwing stones at troops sent to quell violent protests in the village.

Human rights groups say Ahed Tamimi's case highlights what they say is Israel's harsh treatment of Palestinian minors.

About 1,400 Palestinian minors have been prosecuted in special juvenile military courts over the past three years, according to the Israel Defense Forces.

Civil rights groups are very critical of the Israeli system, saying it lacks fundamental protections and gives no guarantee of a fair trial.

Amnesty International has called for Ahed Tamimi's release, accusing Israel of discriminatory treatment of Palestinian children.

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What is the mysterious Aspen Institute and why did it hold a Hunter Biden ‘exercise’?

By Bruce Golding

Published Dec. 19, 2022

Updated Dec. 21, 2022, 2:08 p.m. ET

A US government-funded nonprofit known as “the mountain retreat for the liberal elite” sponsored a “tabletop exercise” intended to influence coverage of a leak of documents related to Hunter Biden, the latest installment of Elon Musk’s “Twitter Files” reveals.

In a series of tweets Monday, independent journalist Michael Shellenberger posted confidential documents from the Aspen Institute’s September 2020 event, which he said was attended by Twitter’s then-head of trust and safety, Facebook’s head of security policy and top national security reporters from The New York Times and The Washington Post.

The exercise by the “Aspen Digital Hack-and-Dump Working Group” involved an 11-day scenario in October 2020 that began with the imaginary release of falsified records related to Hunter Biden’s controversial employment by the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which paid him as much as $1 million a year to serve on its board when his father was vice president.

“The goal was to shape how the media covered it — and how social media carried it,” Shellenberger wrote.

But the drill was put into practical use weeks later, when The Post broke the news about Hunter Biden’s infamous laptop — which was either ignored or downplayed by most mainstream news outlets and suppressed by both Twitter and Facebook.

While they derided the reporting as potential disinformation well after the story broke, some two years later major news organizations including the Times and The Washington Post chose to authenticate key emails from the laptop and both Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg have since admitted it was wrong to crack down on The Post’s reporting.

In a message sent just three days after The Post’s Oct. 14, 2020, scoop, journalist and author Garrett Graff apparently reached out to fellow participants in the Aspen Institute exercise.

“Stephen was right!” he wrote.

Graff, whose latest book is “Watergate: A New History,” didn’t immediately return a request for comment and it’s unclear who “Stephen” is.

The exercise was organized by Vivian Schiller, a former top executive at National Public Radio, Twitter, The New York Times and NBC News, Shellenberger reported.

Since January 2020, she’s been the executive director of Aspen Digital, which its parent organization says “empowers policymakers, civic organizations, companies, and the public to be responsible stewards of technology and media in the service of an informed, just, and equitable world.”

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Organizer was literally a Schill

Neither Schiller nor an institute spokesperson returned The Post’s requests for comment Monday.

A 2019 report by The Economist magazine described the Aspen Institute — which sponsors weeklong seminars and an annual, 10-day “Ideas Festival” favored by celebrities, business leaders and politicians — as “the mountain retreat for the liberal elite” and said that waiting in line for a buffet lunch “felt like being trapped on the front page of the New York Times.”

The US State Department sponsors the Aspen-run “Stevens Initiative” student-exchange program, which in 2020 announced up to $10 million in grants and is named after the late Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens, who was killed in the 2012 terrorist attack on the American embassy in Benghazi.

A 2020 report by the Center for International Policy ranked the Aspen Institute No. 5 on a list of US think tanks that receive foreign funding, with more than $8 million coming from “primarily Western democracies, as well as “undemocratic regimes in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.”

But a leaked, 2015 recording of an Aspen Institute speech in which former Mayor Michael Bloomberg defended racial profiling by cops helped torpedo his 2020 presidential campaign and New York Times columnist David Brooks was forced to resign from a paid position with the organization last year due to a conflict of interest because he wrote about its “Weave Project,” which was initially funded by Facebook and others.

What do you think? Post a comment.

The institute — which reported more than $151 million in revenue in 2020 and had more than $352 million in net assets, according to its latest IRS filing — receives “substantial funding” from groups such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and its top donors include Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, a frequent backer of Democratic candidates, and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ parents, Jacklyn and Miguel Bezos.

Its list of contributors also features former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin, who served under then-President Bill Clinton, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, US Ambassador to Norway Marc Nathason, former Biden administration coronavirus czar Jeffrey Zients and ex-US Rep. Jane Harman (D-Calif.)

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