ELECTRONIC INTIFADA – Dareen Tatour, 36, is from the Arab village of Reineh near Nazareth. She was first arrested in October 2015 over a handful of social media posts and a poem called “Resist, My People, Resist Them.”
One of her posts on Facebook included a picture of Israa Abed, a Palestinian woman who was shot by Israeli forces in the northern city of Afula and quickly exonerated of trying to carry out an attack. Tatour wrote the caption, “I am the next martyr.”
Israel accused Tatour of encouraging suicide attacks, even though this widely used meme is akin to the popular “Je suis Charlie” or “I can’t breathe” memes expressing solidarity with victims of violence, as Kim Jensen and Yoav Haifawi reported for The Electronic Intifada last month. CONTINUE READING
