As one Palestinian website put it: "Although Abu Nidal's name is associated in the West with anti-Israeli violence because of strikes in Rome, Vienna, Istanbul, and London, his targets have been mainly Arab: Palestinians, Syrians, Saudis, and Lebanese".
In March 2013, I read a story on a Palestinian website about a young man from Gaza who auditioned to be on the Arab version of the popular show American Idol.
In the 24 hours and more that followed, the pictures and video footage of the scuffle shot by another member of the family went viral, prompting comment in the Israeli and international media as well as on pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian websites.
A pro-Palestinian website painted the Tamimi mother and daughter as "determined lionesses"; Israeli ones as manipulative "Pallywood" frauds playing for the cameras.
The translation has been taken from a UK based Palestinian activist website.
"I write to you now, my brothers and sisters in the family of Rock and Roll, to ask you to join with me, and thousands of other artists around the world, to declare a cultural boycott on Israel," he wrote, in an open letter posted to his Facebook page and the Palestinian activist website Electronic Intifada.
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Another photograph, published by the Palestinian Maan news website, showed Abu Ain lying on the ground after his collapse.
However the event's co-organisers, the Muslim Association of Britain, highlight the Palestinian cause on their website, citing a condemnation of Israeli aggression ahead of opposition to war against Saddam Hussein.
In CPJ's annual look at attacks on the press, the organization noted that Israeli authorities raided Wattan TV, a US-funded broadcast outlet; the Palestinian Authority cracked down on websites critical of President Mahmoud Abbas; and journalists in Hamas-controlled Gaza have faced assaults and threats for their work.
Websites had urged Palestinians and their supporters in neighbouring countries to march on the border with Israel as part of nakba activities.
