Palestine Media Watch
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Palestine Media Watch (PMWATCH) is an organization established in October 2000 that monitors the US mainstream media's coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
and mobilizes against what it deems to be anti-Palestinian or pro-Israel bias in the coverage of the conflict. The organization focuses mainly on issuing letter-writing action calls and publishing reports analyzing coverage. According to the group's founder, Ahmed Bouzid, "There's a paradigm we're trying to change: that Israelis are defending themselves and the Palestinians are attacking, and when the Israelis do something it must be a mistake or an act of self-defense."
Israeli-Palestinian conflict
The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...
and mobilizes against what it deems to be anti-Palestinian or pro-Israel bias in the coverage of the conflict. The organization focuses mainly on issuing letter-writing action calls and publishing reports analyzing coverage. According to the group's founder, Ahmed Bouzid, "There's a paradigm we're trying to change: that Israelis are defending themselves and the Palestinians are attacking, and when the Israelis do something it must be a mistake or an act of self-defense."
See also
- Palestinian Media WatchPalestinian Media WatchPalestinian Media Watch is an Israel-based media watchdog organization. Established by Itamar Marcus in 1996, PMW monitors Palestinian Arabic media and schoolbooks....
- Media coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict
- American Task Force on PalestineAmerican Task Force on PalestineThe American Task Force on Palestine is an organization founded in 2003 to advocate that it is in the American national interest to promote an end to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict through the creation of a Palestinian state that will live alongside Israel in peace and security...
- American Palestine Public Affairs ForumAmerican Palestine Public Affairs ForumThe American Palestine Public Affairs Forum is a non-profit 501 organization that attempts to promote the interests of Palestinians in the United States. The organization promotes non-violence, democracy in the Middle East, and a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
External links
- How Palestinians and Israelis make their images by The EconomistThe EconomistThe Economist is an English-language weekly news and international affairs publication owned by The Economist Newspaper Ltd. and edited in offices in the City of Westminster, London, England. Continuous publication began under founder James Wilson in September 1843...
- Caught in the Crossfire by American Journalism ReviewAmerican Journalism ReviewThe American Journalism Review is a U.S. magazine covering topics in journalism. It is published six times a year by the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland, College Park. The AJR has been owned since the late 1980s by a foundation of the university...
- Palestinians Find Their Voice Online by Online Journalism Review
- Palestinian Activism Spammed by The NationThe NationThe Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
- Claim: U.S. Papers Downplay Palestinian Deaths by Editor&Publisher
- About Palestine Media Watch (archived)
- Official Site (archived January 19, 2008)