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Palestine online : cyber Intifada and the construction of a virtual community 2001-2005

For those in Palestine, and elsewhere, who continue to defend humanity and defy oppression. And for Bachir Aouragh, from whom I learned not to accept a political status-quo just because it is the dominant one, or a social position just because others or the political-economic system structured it so. Regrettably, war is still being waged and racist demagogy even surpassses previous held boundaries. We continue the struggle. Despite the obvious reactionary constraints, and not so obvious impediments. ‘Not so obvious’ because several progressives tell us we are mistaken (or trapped in a ‘false consciousnesses’); others have replaced racist islamophobia with new x euphemisms as ‘freedom of speech’. I started to believe that some of the ‘armchair left’ were seriously confused when some even conflated outright populist rhetorics with axioms of Voltaire (the muslim bias became a bit too obvious). Alas, the struggle goes on with or without their blessings—with the ‘pessimism of the intellect and the optimism of the will’ as Gramsci brilliantly noted. On this note, some say comradeship is one of the strongest relationships. I shared tough and inspiring times with many activists of Internat

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