Brief twitter statement on Eden Abergil’s “Abu Ghraib” Facebook pics


Since I don’t have time to really blog on this today, my twitter statement is below.

  1. It is still interesting to me that Israelis are so outraged, considering Abergil’s pics are so tame. They and I live in alternate realities.
  2. When I ran Breaking the Silence’s US tour in 2008, there were more than a dozen such pics. 2K people in Boston, NYC, Philly & DC saw them.
  3. It is still interesting to me that Israelis are so outraged, considering Abergil’s pics are so tame. They and I live in alternate realities.
  4. Abergil’s unrepentant defensiveness (“they’ll attack us anyway”, see end http://ow.ly/2qKro) is indicative of Israeli embattled sentiments.
  5. Why is Abergil a big deal? There are a few dozen of the same type of pic on Breaking the Silence’s site for 4 years now: http://ow.ly/2qKnh
  6. Breaking the Silence issued a Facebook statement with more photos of the same (http://ow.ly/2qKiX) to prove that this is the norm. #israel
  7. The Facebook pics of IDF vet Eden Abergil demeaning Palestinian prisoners is not Israel’s Abu-Ghraib. There is worse: http://ow.ly/2qKg8
  8. RT @NewIsraelFund: Breaking the Silence makes headlines, says pics of soldiers degrading Palestinian prisoners is norm: http://ow.ly/2qJD4

More good blogging on this from Israeli blogger Dimi Reider (one and two).







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