Talk:Ghassan Kanafani

message: Just a sampling of why this article doesn't conform to wikipedia npov guidelines:
* "Kanafani was a part of the mass movement of Palestinians and knew first hand the terror the people faced." 
* "The Jews had kicked the Palestine’s out of their homeland and left them with no where to go." 
* "He used his anger that had bottled inside of him when he felt alone to further his dedication in the Palestinian cause."
I would hope these problematic passages speak for themselves, but you never know when it comes to this topic. 76.119.235.58 (talk) 19:38, 25 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: NPOV tag

message: ...who was assassinated by the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad on July 8, 1972...
Can we unequivically confirm he was assassinated by the Mossad?
How was he killed?  Several web articles said 'car bomb' but I wonder if they meant a 'bomb' in a 'car'  (as opposed to a bomb so big it had to be built into a car to transport it).
::He was killed with his niece (a bomb had been placed in his car). He was an official spokesperson for the PFLP at the time, there was an Israeli policy of assassinating Palestinian figures. Tiller1 17:04, 20 Mar 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I cannot find any source for the Mossad's alleged confirmation.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.71.106.145 (talk) 15:23, 19 May 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Confirmation?

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message: Hello, I am a Palestinian editor, I live in the West Bank, and I am a certified editor in Arabic Wikipedia. I would like to amend and place pictures for this article. Osps7 (talk) 22:50, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Hi,and Welcome!  If you have pictures relevant to Kanafani, the best thing would be to upload them to commons (=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page ) and then mark them with Category:Ghassan Kanafani.   Huldra (talk) 23:27, 8 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 8 July 2020 

message: Change article image to a real picture of the figure considering many exist rather than a graffiti representation. Qwertykid12654 (talk) 19:44, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. – Jonesey95 (talk) 21:37, 9 October 2020 (UTC)

text: Comment: Qwertykid12654, as long as those pictures are not freely available; Wikipedia cannot use them. Unfortunately,  the "real" pictures of Ghassan Kanafani  are all copy-righted, AFAIK, Huldra (talk) 23:24, 9 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 9 October 2020 

message: Born in ʻAkkā in Palestine
There was no Israel in 1936. Londoner1970 (talk) 14:30, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Already done Born	8 April 1936 Acre, Mandatory Palestine ScottishFinnishRadish (talk) 14:35, 20 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 May 2021 

message: It labels him as a resistance leader, this is not accurate. Either change it to terrorist leader, since the organization fits the definition given the bombings and attacks against civilians and military personnel alike. Or it can be switched to a not as accurate but still an improvement, militant leader. Jake pres (talk) 21:54, 14 November 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: There are no civilians in Israel. They are all colonial occupiers. 95.180.83.114 (talk) 22:44, 12 April 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccurate description. 

message: There is an unreliable source with statement saying he is of Kurdish background, but this is condradicted in every other source I can find. Dwasirkaram (talk) 16:28, 2 May 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: He was not Kurdish, nor did he ever state that in any of his publications. Wikipedia is still keeping his Kurdish background to undermine his Palestinian background. It's a crime to fake someone's background. Shame on you Wikipedia! 84.65.231.239 (talk) 09:21, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Kurdish 

message: Please add this link. Kanafani's text translated into Brazilian Portuguese - https://opiniaodissonante.blogspot.com/2023/10/ghassan-kanafani-uma-carta-de-gaza.html 2804:14D:5C9B:827A:7B64:74D5:D8E6:CB3D (talk) 22:19, 28 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Translation into Brazilian Portuguese 

message: In the summary of "Return to Haifa," remove "Their other son, Khalid, with them in Ramallah, had joined the fedayeen with his father's blessing." This is inaccurate to the text as Khalid is not a member of the fedayeen, and Sa'id only claims he is to prove a point and win an argument. BKrebsbach (talk) 07:48, 30 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: I know nothing about this topic, but nobody has commented on this in more than a month, so here we go. * Pppery * it has begun... 02:56, 1 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 30 October 2023 

message: Please change X: 'Kanafani was born in Acre in 1936 to a middle-class Sunni family of Kurdish descent.' 
Please change to Y: There has been no proof of Ghassan Kanafani being from a Kurdish background. The submitted "references" are vague and do not prove his ethnic background. Moreover, Ghassan himself has never attributed himself to any Kurdish background, not in any of his interviews nor in any of his published books. He has always stated that his background is Palestinian only and not the latter. 84.65.231.239 (talk) 09:16, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Deltaspace42 (talk • contribs) 09:47, 18 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 18 December 2023 

message: Citation number two which is pg. 35 of Kamal Abdel-Malek's The Rhetoric of Violence: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Contemporary Palestinian Literature and Film, Springer (2016) states that "He was born in Acre in Palestine to a middle-class Sunni family and received his early education in French missionary schools, until he and his family were forced into exile during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war." It does mention he is of Kurdish descent. Citation number three “The Palestinian who was all Palestine” by Qods News Agency does not provide any any references for a Kurdish background. The first source does not mention it and the second one is questionable as it provides no references. In a time where factchecking is essential on the internet it is problematic that a claim that Kanafani is of Kurdish descent is still as there hasn't been any proof of such claim. I request that the Kurdish background part be removed as there hasn't been any reliable sources added. 
Please remove the sentence "Kanafani was born in Acre in 1936 to a middle-class Sunni family of Kurdish descent" as it is not accurate and change it to "Kanafani was born in Acre in Palestine to a middle-class Sunni family. According pg. 35 of Kamal Abdel-Malek's The Rhetoric of Violence: Arab-Jewish Encounters in Contemporary Palestinian Literature and Film, Springer (2016) states that "He was born in Acre in Palestine to a middle-class Sunni family and received his early education in French missionary schools, until he and his family were forced into exile during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war." Talibaltarikh (talk) 19:58, 20 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  No reliable sources on Kurdish background claim  

message: Under translated works, All The is Left for You was first published in English translation by the University of Texas Press in 1990 (ISBN: 0-292-707-18-6). LazyMFTX (talk) 21:36, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Not done: it's not clear what changes you want to be made. Please mention the specific changes in a "change X to Y" format and provide a reliable source if appropriate. Shadow311 (talk) 22:03, 20 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Extended-confirmed-protected edit request on 20 April 2024