Ahed Tamimi Is a Threat to Israel’s Public Diplomacy, Not Its Security
On Tuesday, December 19, the Israeli army arrested sixteen-year old Ahed Tamimi for slapping two Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers in the occupied West...
Josepha Ivanka (Joshka) Wessels is a senior researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies (CMES), Lund University, Sweden. She is specialised in Syria and the Levant and has published her research on media, political ecology and social activism in the Middle East in Open Democracy, Middle-East Critique, Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, International Journal of Environmental Studies and the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.