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“My 'Crime'? Being a Journalist Who Speaks Up for Palestine”: Ali Abunimah Speaks Out After Swiss Arrest

HeadlineJan 28, 2025

The Palestinian American journalist Ali Abunimah was freed from detention Monday evening and deported from Switzerland after a three-day ordeal that rights groups and U.N. experts blasted as a major attack on free speech. Abunimah is founder of the online news site Electronic Intifada. He was arrested and jailed ahead of a speaking event in Zurich. He wrote in a social media post after leaving Switzerland, “My 'crime'? Being a journalist who speaks up for Palestine and against Israel’s genocide and settler-colonial savagery and those who aid and abet it.”

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