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- A Brave Voice in Israel - Commending the Ha'aretz newspaper for its tough wartime reporting and courageous commentary, despite pressure to refrain from challenging Israel's policies in the occupied territories, and abuse and threats directed at its staff.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A48820-2002Apr14
- After a nightmare week, Israel fights back in the war of words - Describing Israel's effort to overcome international reaction to its conduct in the occupied territories, and an Israeli spokesman's expression that the army was wrong to have initially denied that its soldiers had shot a 12-year-old boy, Muhammad al-Dura at Netzarim junction.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,383615,00.html
- Arafat cracks down on broadcasters - Describing Arafat's shuttering radio and television stations, and arresting dissidents including those within his own police force, in order to stifle challenges to his authority as he continues peace negotiations at Camp David.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,332134,00.html
- Be quiet, bye-bye - Describing pressure placed by the government of Israel on CNN and BBC, and suggesting that the motive is not to stop bias, but to prevent Israelis from having access to opinions that deviate from those of official government spokespersons.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=179363
- Between defiance and flattery - Describing a Palestinian women's rally where participants protested for democratic reform, erroneously reported as having been in support of Arafat, to illustrate how poor reporting conveys little more than a caricature of the Palestinian people.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=164036
- Black Propaganda - There are always people willing to excuse Ariel Sharon's evil acts - Describing the boasting of the press secretary at the Israeli embassy in London about his influencing the British media to report in Ariel Sharon's favor, and the bias of The Daily Telegraph.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,684104,00.html
- Boycotting the cable companies - Analyzing the threat from Israel's cable companies to drop CNN as exploitation of the present political situation to try to avoid paying a reasonable price for its broadcasts, likely encouraged by Communications Minister Ruby Rivlin's threats to shut down broadcasting networks who criticised Israel.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=193816
- British Jews At Odds After Rabbi Criticises Israel - A prominent liberal, Rabbi Dr David Goldberg, provoked consternation by describing Israel as the last colonial power in the world.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=101898
- Cable companies get authorization to remove CNN from their programming - Describing a decision by Israel's Satellite and Cable Commission to allow CNN to be removed from basic cable packages, and CNN's response that the cable companies were exploiting the political situation to try to extort unreasonably low rates.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=193288
- CNN blinks first in battle with Israeli officials - Describing how CNN has announced that it will broadcast stories about victims of terrorist attacks, following controvercial comments by Ted Turner comparing Israeli military actions with terrorism, and continued perceptions by both Israelis and Palestinians that CNN is biased against their side.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=179278
- CNN chief accuses Israel of terror - Describing Ted Turner's assertion that both sides in the Israel-Palestinian conflict are terrorizing each other, the response of a spokesperson for the government and from media watchdog groups, and comments on perceptions of bias in CNN coverage.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,739466,00.html
- Digging beneath the surface in the Middle East conflict - Comments of the Editor in Chief of Ha'aretz, criticizing European coverage of Israel's incursions in Jenin, and suggesting that the four fundamental sins of journalism are obsessiveness, prejudice, condescension and ignorance.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=173882
- Draining the lifeblood of democracy - Describing CNN as being better in quality than similar Israeli networks and having no deliberate bias, and suggesting that the decision to drop its coverage from the Israeli cable network is emblematic of the erosion of democracy in Israel.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=195762
- Embassy aide suspended for criticising air strike - Describing the suspension of a press officer at Israel's Irish embassy, who wrote a letter to Irish newspapers which deplored Palestinian terror, but also criticized the Sharon government for its attacks on Palestinian civilians.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=318819
- Embattled Israel clamps down on dissent - Describing broad restrictions imposed by Israel on the media, restricting the stories they can cover and the terms they can use to describe military actions, and retaliation against those who speak against the official line.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=292008
- Fear and learning in America - A British Middle East correspondent describes his perceptions that Americans are becoming better informed on the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, are are increasingly aware of pro-Israeli bias in their media and in Congress.
argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=285777
- Fighting the Propaganda War - Expressing concern that Israel was falling behind in the battle for Western public opinion.
www.jpost.com/Editions/2001/06/11/Opinion/Opinion.27909.html
- George Will: Sneering at Powell, Flacking for Sharon - Analyzing Will's perspective on the Israel-Palestine conflict, and suggesting various factual and logical errors in his arguments.
www.antiwar.com/mcconnell/mc112701.html
- Hospitals Urged to Let Cameras Roll - Describing how, in reaction to footage of Palestinians being injured by Israeli forces in the occupied territories, there is a call to abandon policies of patient privacy and confidentiality so Israel can show 'as much blood, pain and tears' as possible.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=151690&contrassID=2&subContrassID=1&sbSubContrassID=0
- Influencing Middle East News - Arguing that pressure from pro-Israeli interest groups, lobbyists and Congress has resulted in profound anti-Palestinian bias in the United States media.
www.mediamonitors.net/jamesjdavid13.html
- Israel gives no word on detained Reuters journalist - Describing Israel's refusal to explain its arrest and detention of a Palestinian cameraman employed by Reuters, and of a Palestinian photographer employed by Agence France Presse.
famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters05-03-091250.asp?reg=MIDEAST
- Israel's war of words gets dirty - Describing the propaganda efforts by Israel, in its attempt to conceal from the world atrocities reportedly committed by its troops against the Palestinians in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied territories.
news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=284812
- Israeli army confiscates journalists' cards - Describing the removal of press cards from journalists attempting to cover the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, and the Foreign Press Association accusation that Israel is trying to impede coverage of the crisis.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,688889,00.html
- Israelis Act Against Reporters in Ramallah - Describing Israel's threats against NBC and CNN for violating military censorship orders, and its revocation of the credentials of two journalists who reported that its forces had summarily executed two men in Ramallah.
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A53829-2002Apr2¬Found=true
- Israelis threaten to drop CNN after Turner comment - Describing reactions to Ted Turner's query as to whether Israelis and Palestinians terrorising each other, despite his clarification that he does not consider Israel's actions to protect its people to be terrorism.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,741296,00.html
- Jenin - the Propaganda War - An analysis of Israel's reactions to concerns of how the world would respond to news of its incursions in Jenin, and how the statements of IDF officers contributed to confusion over the number of Palestinian casualties.
www.tau.ac.il/~reinhart/political/21_04_02_JeninThePropagandaWar.html
- Jenin, the Propaganda Battle - Describing Israel's efforts to control media access and to influence the reporting of events in Jenin, and how the IDF's own estimates have contributed to uncertainty over the number of people killed during the incursion.
www.counterpunch.org/reinhart0424.html
- Journal axes gene research on Jews and Palestinians - Describing the controversy surrounding the censorship of a research paper showing that Middle Eastern Jews and Palestinians are genetically almost identical.
www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0%2C6903%2C605798%2C00.html
- Just what was said - Describing the effort by Canada's Toronto Star for balance in its coverage of the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, as compared with the National Post's overt bias, and the treatment of the conflict by the U.S. media.
www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1019167376025
- Linda Belanger: Why Do They Do It? - Arguing that Israel uses its control over Palestinian lands to exclude news agencies which do not bias their reports in its favor, and that the western media neglects to cover Israel's conduct, such as illegal settlement, collective punishments and curfews, and water deprivation.
www.counterpunch.org/belanger0729.html
- Measure for measure - A BBC representative describes how the same program will be denounced as biased against both the Israelis and Palestinians, how both sides see bias in anything that doesn't relentlessly push their perspective, and an example of how appropriate news coverage was misheard resulting in a false charge of bias.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/comment/0,10551,774114,00.html
- Missing in action - Describing how inadequate and biased news coverage fails to inform young people about what's going on in the occupied territories, or why, and statistics showing that British teens have a poor grasp of the underlying facts.
education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,9959,684936,00.html
- Neutrality isn't enough for American Jews - Describing efforts to bias the U.S. news media and public opinion in favor of Israel.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=198970
- New IBA chief bans use of term 'settlements' - Describing how Sharon's new appointee to the Israel Broadcasting Authority has forbidden the use of the terms 'settlers' and 'settlements' on radio and TV broadcasts, to refer to Israel's enclaves in the occupied territories.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=170849
- Palestine: What Americans need to Know - but probably won't be told - to Understand Palestinian Rage - Arguing that American ignorance of the facts of the occupation, and the misrepresentation of the conflict in the U.S. media, prevents their reasonable understanding of the conflict.
www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/palestine/eduardoCohen.html
- Palestinians lose out in the war of words - Describing the general weakness of the Arab news media.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,417046,00.html
- Pro-Israel groups take aim at U.S. news media - Describing the position of Israeli groups that the U.S. media is biased in favor of the Palestinians, and the response the Israeli groups are seeking advocacy instead of actual news reporting. [Free registration required]
www.chicagotribune.com/templates/misc/printstory.jsp?slug=chi%2D0205260436may26
- Profound Contempt - Expressing that statements from the Israeli Defense Forces about Arafat and the Palestinian people reveal ethnic contempt toward the Palestinians, and perhaps also a contempt toward a public that is expected to believe them.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=152102
- Project One Soul - Pro-Israel group, presenting a selection of photographs to counter perceived bias in the media.
www.projectonesoul.com
- Readers boycott 'biased' LA Times - Describing a one-day boycott of the newspaper by those who accuse it of anti-Israeli bias, and the jeers that met Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz when he suggested to DC protestors that 'innocent Palestinians are suffering and dying as well.'
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1938000/1938442.stm
- Ringing with Echoes of McCarthyism - Describing how an Israeli state agency, whose job it is to support artists and defend their rights, is using its clout to punish artists who speak against the occupation or Israel's military incursions against the Palestinians.
news.haaretz.co.il/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=155206
- Selective Memri - A journalist looks behind the frequent translations he receives from Memri, an organization claiming to provide unbiased translations of articles from the Middle East, to reveal extraordinary bias and inaccuracy from this organization run by former Israeli intelligence officers.
www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,773258,00.html
- Speaking out in Israel - Commending Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper for speaking out on unpopular issues, including the essential facts of Israel's occupation and military operations against the Palestinians.
www.iht.com/articles/55168.html
- Suicidal Truths - Analyzing the dehumanizing depiction of Palestinians in the media, focusing on an editorial by Thomas Friedman.
www.antiwar.com/hacohen/h040502.html
- Tell the truth about Israel - Urging the media to provide more balance in their coverage of deaths in Israel and the occupied territories, particularly the deaths of children, and of bias by the United States in its treatment of the conflict.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,390829,00.html
- The Al-Aqsa Intifada - Don't Believe What You Read - Detailing some of the propaganda used by Israel and the Palestinians, such as the myth that Palestinians use their children as human shields, and the omission in Palestinian reports of deaths that their gunmen provoked the fire.
www.tikkun.org/magazine/index.cfm/action/tikkun/issue/tik0101/article/010111e.html
- The CanWest Chill - Detailing the proclamation by one of Canada's largest newspaper chains that, 'We do not run in our newspaper Op Ed pieces that express criticism of Israel'.
www.electronicintifada.net/actionitems/20011211.html
- The Palestinian Side Must Be Told - A Jewish American argues that the traditional absence of acknowledgement in U.S. news reporting of the ongoing victimization of the Palestinians is callously immoral.
www.commondreams.org/views02/0423-04.htm
- The whole world's against us - Arguing that comments such as those of Ted Turner reflect a world opinion that Israel's actions in the occupied territories are immoral, and arguing that there is an inherent hypocrisy in some Israeli accusations of media bias.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=179362
- TV news biased against Palestinians, says study - Describing the conclusions of an academic study of British news broadcasts, and widespread ignorance of basic facts of the occupation, particularly by young people.
www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,2763,685042,00.html
- TV or not TV - The host of an Israeli television program that criticizes the 'patriotic press' discusses the void that will be left if Israel's government is successful in its plans to close down Educational Television Network, ending his program.
www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=197788
- U.S. media inept in covering Israel - Analyzing United States coverage of the Middle East conflict as shallow and inaccurate, obsessing over Sharon and Netanyahu, while completely missing the picture as made clear by statements of Israel's political and military leaders.
www.captimes.com/opinion/column/nichols/25540.php
- War and strife online - Describing the role of the Internet in the dissemination of information and propaganda surrounding world conflicts, with an emphasis on Israel-Palestine.
search.ft.com/search/article.html?id=020726001866
- Why does John Malkovich want to kill me? - Describing the threats and insults directed at reporters who question Israel's actions in the occupied territories, particularly from America, with the ironic observation that Israelis themselves don't engage in such behavior.
argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=294787
- Witness to Palestinian suffering - Asserting that overt prejudice, and biased and incomplete coverage with the United States media, result in a dehumanizing of the Palestinian people and the disregard of their decades of suffering under Israel's occupation.
www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/88937
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