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November 21, 2016

The Pro-Palestinian Left Splits over Syria

Diehard Israel-haters rush to defend Assad’s war crimes.

While Bashar al-Assad’s brutal conduct of his war to regain control of Syria has turned much of Arab public opinion against him, many devotees of the Palestinian cause have either ignored his behavior or rushed to his defense. The resulting schism came to a head when Ali Abunimah, co-founder of the venomous anti-Israel website Electronic Intifada, reacted with scornful indifference to a picture of a wounded Syrian child. Jamie Palmer writes:

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November 21, 2016

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