For years, I have been documenting various examples of Ali “Abumination” Abunimah’s support for terrorism, lies and other transgressions.
But my post yesterday ripping the Electronic Intifada piece defending a terrorist inspired me to undertake a small exercise: search his Twitter timeline for defense of terrorism, using the keyword “resistance.”
The results? 100s of tweets going back as far as 2008, in which Abunimah not only refers to terrorism as “resistance,” but glorifies the terrorists, encourages this terrorism, characterizes those who oppose the terrorism as “collaborators,” revels in the death of Israelis, and even expresses a desire to financially contribute to this “resistance.”
Here are some of his “greatest hits”:
No resistance movement or revolution ever received a license from its oppressor #Gaza #Israel
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 1, 2009
#Gaza Palestinians engaging in legitimate resistance against invading #Israel occupiers. Why doesn't Egypt provide them weapons?
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 4, 2009
Aljazeera: #Israel admits 3 "friendly fire" deaths of occupiers actually result of #Gaza resistance fire.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 8, 2009
Resistance in #Gaza against cowardly Zionist terror gangs is absolutely heroic and historic.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 10, 2009
Zionists are classic cowards. They can't beat resistance so they murder civilians deliberately instead. #Gaza
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 10, 2009
Resistance is targeting military bases in "Israel" while zionists attack schools and homes. #israel censorship blocks news. #Gaza
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 10, 2009
Zionist gangster regime failed to break resistance. Zionists world's best butchers, but they will never defeat Palestine. #Gaza #Israel
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 17, 2009
@QassamCount Proof that Olmert is a liar and the resistance to Zionist settler colonialism is undefeated and undefeatable.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 17, 2009
Liberation through resistance not "peace" through "negotiations."
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) February 11, 2009
Documentary on the heroic Izzedin al-Qassam Brigades (IQB) resistance fighters on Aljazeera #israel #gaza
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) February 28, 2009
I was going to fund Palestinian and global resistance/solidarity with that £52M jackpot! If only I'd bought a ticket!
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) April 17, 2009
Palestinian resistance from #Gaza killed Israeli occupation officer and injured 5 soldiers today. Military censorship holding back details
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) December 30, 2008
@RiftFisher all the above. Collaborating with israel against legitimate resistance & maintaining corrupt local dictatorial police state.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) August 9, 2009
Abbas is such a liar; he speaks of reviving resistance in Arabic, but condemns it when traveling abroad http://bit.ly/8fVhHi
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) November 24, 2009
One year ago today Israel killed 41 people in Gaza; 29 civilians (14 children) & 13 resistance volunteers. Those were some of their names.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) January 11, 2010
Unconfirmed reports that two Israeli occupation ghetto guards killed by resistance in Gaza violence http://aje.me/ahxQh4
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) March 26, 2010
Is Muhammad Dahlan still spying on Gaza resistance on behalf of Israeli death squads? #collaborators http://bit.ly/b6BuAn
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) March 30, 2010
Ten years ago today: Defeated by resistance, Israeli occupiers beat hasty retreat from southern Lebanon taking SLA collaborators with them.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) May 24, 2010
I prematurely celebtrated Lebanon's Liberation Day yesterday. But wonderful feeling to think again of "IDF"'s humiliation by the resistance.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) May 25, 2010
@amitaisandy Iran supports Hizbullah which is an indigenous Lebanese resistance organization. US supports Israel much more.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 15, 2010
Wrong-kind-of-humans' resistance is always "terrorism" because…well, they are the wrong-kind-of-humans. #Zionism
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 16, 2010
People all over the world are sick of being lectured to that their resistance to empire is a form of dysfunction.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) September 22, 2010
@LSal92 the heroic resistance defeated that wicked scheme months ago
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) October 16, 2010
"Unity" means either those who support resistance give up resistance or those who support collaboration give up collaboration. Which is it?
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) March 10, 2011
@ThorayaER Whether people support it or oppose it, Hamas has legitimacy as a major political movement and resistance org.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) April 28, 2011
If @IJasonAlexander supports "both sides" equally why does he perform only for "IDF" terrorists but not for Palestinian resistance fighters?
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) November 27, 2011
@Arab_Fury A great example of what resistance can do. So why are they abandoning it?
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) May 11, 2012
There's no moral equivalence between self-defense and resistance of an occupied people and terrorism and collective punishment by occupier.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) June 16, 2014
Enemy invaders have been met by fire from Palestinian resistance heroes in Khan Younis – Ynet http://t.co/tnsDz0q7ej #Gaza
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 17, 2014
Palestinians in Gaza must resist and defend themselves from the violence of the occupier. They do not choose resistance because they like it
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) December 19, 2014
Doing Israel's filthy work: Jordan Jails 12 Hamas "militants" allegedly for planning resistance
read more: http://t.co/5VOyvunhYj— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) July 29, 2015
Only last week I read about Twitter suspending 235,000 accounts, which promoted terrorism, over 6 months.
“The world has witnessed a further wave of deadly, abhorrent terror attacks across the globe,” Twitter said in a statement. “We strongly condemn these acts and remain committed to eliminating the promotion of violence or terrorism on our platform.”
By promoting all terrorism against Israelis as legitimate, desirable resistance, Abunimah is indeed promoting violence and terrorism on Twitter. So I am not entirely sure why he is still even allowed to have a Twitter account, let alone been granted the blue check mark to signify “verified” status.
Ugh I'm now verified. Everyone please unfollow me.
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) August 11, 2016
Oh, and Ali, I am no Israeli government agent. Just an educated, moral person who is sick of the terror support you disseminate.
In real-time: Israeli government agent is trying to get @Twitter to shut down my account. https://t.co/AaMKy6lvDG
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) August 18, 2016
