The checkpoint violence became real only when witnessed firsthand.

Evidence

Eventually the soldiers let the van pass, and the driver and Akram traveled down the road. Akram could now see the mosque from the van’s window. “Jeez. Hoe-lee cow!” He whistled. About a hundred Palestinian kids were throwing rocks and bottles at the soldiers, who were sometimes firing back at the crowd with their rifles. This isn’t CNN anymore, Akram thought. — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 555

Categorization

• SEED: Angle: how Palestinian Americans experience the Intifada’s violence as a rupture of mediated news consumption into firsthand reality.