Talk:Naji al-Ali

message: Anyone have a picture of Naji al-Ali or of his grave in London, or know how to copy the picture of Handala from the Arabic article?Palmiro 19:28, 13 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Picture

message: An anonymous contributor has added the following:
:Under interrogation, the Jerusalem-born man, Ismail Sawan, said that his superiors in Tel Aviv had been briefed well in advance of the plot to kill the cartoonist.
:By refusing to pass on the relevant information to their British counterparts, Mossad earned the displeasure of Britain, which retaliated by expelling two Israeli diplomats from London. A furious Margaret Thatcher, then prime minister, closed Mossad’s London base in Palace Green, Kensington.
While I've read this myself in a couple of places, I don't think it should go in the article without a reliable source being cited. Also, just referring to this end of the affair and not to the suspicions that Palestinian figures were behind the murder seems a bit parti pris. Palmiro | Talk 13:54, 23 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The IP insertion seems to be a direct copy of a passage mirrored on several blogs, and attributed on at least some of them to this Electronic Intifada page. The claim is dubious, and is contradicted by this NY Times piece, which says unambiguously that the investigation found the assassin to be a member of the PLO, which is the common narrative. What is more disturbing, perhaps, is that the IP behaved in a manner suggesting some familiarity with WP procedure. TewfikTalk 07:02, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You are correct that Electronic Intifada has this passage, but it seems not to be the original source. This story has many variations and is confirmed by multiple sources. One example is this [Ha'aretz article]. Also Gideon's Spies by Gordon Thomas has long passage about mossad agent Ismail Sowan. NB! Those sources do not claim that Mossad ordered the hit, but simply it was in the know and did not inform friendly British authorities. The case is also notable, beacause it is one of only two cases where Israeli diplomats have been expelled from friendly countries. --Magabund 22:53, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just adding some additional reference to the aforementioned discussion.  Apparently al-Ali, as notorious as he was for his stance against Israel, was also extremely vocal in his opposition to Arafat and his PLO movement.  Thomas L. Friedman's book, From Beirut To Jerusalem, states that Scotland Yard has always held the belief that "the assassin was dispatched by Arafat or PLO officials close to him".  It also ads that al-Ali had been "thrown out of Kuwait in 1985 - reportedly at Arafat's insistance".  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.68.54.203 (talk) 04:49, 23 October 2007 (UTC)

text: That's an extremely strange reading of the sources since none of them say that. Viriditas (talk) 07:53, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Murder and culpability 

message: "What follows is a Zionist whitewashing of both Naji Al-Ali's politics, namely his criticism of Israeli apartheid, and of Israel's role in the brutal occupation and oppression of Palestinians." -- Deleted. This doesn't add anything to the article. The best way to tackle an article you think is biased is to argue it on the discussion and change the the article content if it is biased or factually wrong. 
Azymuthca 18:26, 8 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unnecessary 

message: "Handala, after the Israeli Srulik, is the most famous of Naji al-Ali's characters."
after the Israeli Srulik? Srulik was drawn by Dosh (as written in the Article about Srulik), not by al-Ali.
15:32, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Error in the Article? 

message: british mandate of palestine did.
stop the silly fact twisting. 109.66.17.64 (talk) 03:55, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  palestine did not exist in 1938 

message: Brewcrewer, you added a cn tag to a sentence bout where Ali was born. Just to be lear, are you suggesting he wasn't born in Shajara, or that Ilaniya is not now built over Shajara or what? Tiamuttalk 19:27, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please explain 

message: The preponderance of reliable academic sources indicate that Naji al-Ali was assassinated by the PLO for criticizing them.  However, this article appears to have completely whitewashed that fact and predictably (although indirectly) blamed Israel, contrary to the sources. Viriditas (talk) 07:34, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: Having looked at the sources in use in this article and those available online, it is clear that several editors deliberately altered what the sources said. Viriditas (talk) 07:40, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

text: Per the above and the continuing concerns by other editors on this talk page, I have added a NPOV tag.  The entire article needs to be rewritten to remove POV and to insure accuracy. Viriditas (talk) 07:52, 23 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  This article has issues 

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thread_title:  External links modified 

message: Section lacks any reference to the more controversial comics, such as this or this (showcasing territorial claims) and this or this (showcasing antisemitic imagery). -- 31.16.248.117 (talk) 01:33, 10 June 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Handala 

message: There are several different statements about where he was shot. The lead says neck (with a source, but the source says face). The section "Assassination" says right temple (no source). The section "Commemorative statue" says left eye (no source).
This article isn't protected, but there's that big warning at the top of the talk page, so I'm gonna err on the side of respecting the IP editor prohibition. But I figure someone should probably address this. --98.109.27.187 (talk) 07:43, 23 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Location of bullet wound