1. Ali Abunimah's mother is originally from the village of Lifta, now part of Israel, but she became a refugee in the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight.
18 Facts About Ali Abunimah
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Ali Abunimah's father is from the village of Battir, now in the West Bank, and is a former Jordanian diplomat who served as ambassador to the United Nations.
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Ali Abunimah completed his undergraduate and master's degrees in politics at Princeton University and the University of Chicago.
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Ali Abunimah wrote the book One Country: A Bold Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse, which proposes to revive the idea of one state shared by two peoples.
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When many others have moved away from this discussion, Ali Abunimah's book refocuses it on the right goal, even if he's not clear about the path from here to there.
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In May 2014, Ali Abunimah published another book, The Battle for Justice in Palestine, which analyzes Israel's propaganda initiatives, emphasizes solidarity activism, and connects the struggles in Palestine to those of other oppressed groups across the world.
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Ali Abunimah played a key role in the Gaza Freedom March in 2009, a joint effort with Codepink to bring humanitarian relief to Gaza via the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
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In March 2012, Ali Abunimah was among those Palestinian activists who signed a statement criticizing the views of Gilad Atzmon as racist and antisemitic.
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In 2013, Abunimah traveled to Gaza to speak about digital journalism at the Palestine Festival of Literature.
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Ali Abunimah posted about his journey on Twitter and Electronic Intifada.
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Ali Abunimah's arrest was condemned by UN human rights experts and activists.
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Ali Abunimah was released and deported after three days of detention.
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In 2009, Ali Abunimah wrote an article entitled, "Israeli Jews and the one-state solution", covering some of the same arguments as he raised in his book, One Country.
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Ali Abunimah met Barack Obama in 2004 when the latter was a member of the Illinois State Senate.
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Ali Abunimah wrote in 2007 that he had met Obama around half a dozen times before Obama held elective office.
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Ali Abunimah accused Obama of having cut off his relationships with Arab Americans after his election to the US Senate.
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Ali Abunimah said he was sympathetic to the Palestinians because he needed their votes in order to be elected.
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Ali Abunimah was very supportive of US pressure on Israel.