As Israelinurse has just noted over on Cif Watch, the Guardian today ran a piece by the wife of Khader Adnan. It includes passages such as this:
Our life was turned upside down on 17 December 2011 when Israeli troops raided our home in Araba village, south of Jenin, in the occupied West Bank. It was about 3am when they broke down the doors and stormed into our house. The havoc they wreaked will always remain etched on the minds of our two daughters, Ma’ali, aged four, and Baysan, one-and-a-half years old. I would not be surprised if even our unborn baby will also be affected. Such was the trauma that accompanied the Israeli raid.
It certainly does not mention Adnan’s role in Islamic Jihad, or his call for more Palestinians to become suicide bombers.
It’s good to see plenty of commenters on CIF supplying this missing information, although the moderators seem to be deleting many comments very swiftly. Otherwise readers might be misled by his wife’s description of Adnan as a ‘student activist’ and her implication that he is dedicated to non-violence.
Not for the first time, Khadar has used hunger strike, his powerful form of peaceful protest, to great effect. When the Palestinian Authority forces detained him in 2010 he went on a hunger strike for 12 consecutive days, forcing the Ramallah authority to release him.
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What drives my husband to pursue this dangerous and difficult form of resistance? I have no doubt it is the unjust nature of “administrative detention” and its notorious methods of torture and humiliation.
Here are a couple of representative comments BTL:
“I’m sure Assad’s wife Asma would be interested in submitting a comment piece- it could be called ‘ A wife’s perspective- Syria-the Untold Story’.”
Or this, addressed to a pretty feeble defence of the article by CIF’s Becky Gardiner:
“To claim that you’re merely providing voices across a broad political spectrum rather than furthering a political point of view is laughable. No. It’s insulting.
I’d be more inclined to believe you if I saw posts from Israeli ultra orthodox zionists, or perhaps something from Nick Griffin’s wife saying that he’s really not such a bad bloke after all. He’s not been charged with anything, so evidently an article like that would pass under your moral radar?
You squander the noble inheritance of this paper with such nonsense and continue to do immense harm to the British Left.”
What is particularly worrying is that, apparently, the article will be published in the print version of the paper tomorrow.
Update The article is indeed in the print version on page 35. At the bottom is this brief note: ‘Randa Musa is the wife of Palestinian hunger striker and Islamic Jihad activist Khadar Adnan.’
