Articles

Advisory: TIPH reports "no information on the shooting" of two of its personnel

Ali Abunimah and
Nigel Parry
26 March 2002

Various news organisations reporting on the killing of one Turkish and one Swiss member of the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH) have included the Israeli claim that it was Palestinian gunmen who opened fire on the TIPH vehicle. A TIPH spokesperson, reached by telephone in Hebron by The Electronic Intifada today categorically stated that TIPH had “No information on the shooting.”

World Bank Report on the Palestinian Economic Crisis

World Bank
25 March 2002

The World Bank is releasing a report entitled “Fifteen Months – Intifada, Closures and Palestinian Economic Crisis” (the Assessment), which surveys the economic impact of the current crisis and proposes a strategy for managing the Palestinian economy in 2002.

The Electronic Intifada; Holt uncensored: alternative sources for news

Pat Holt
22 March 2002

Of course this “resource for countering myth, distortion and spin from the Israeli media war machine” is going to have a pro-Palestinian spin, but because of that, it was a site to check on Arab-American reactions to the 9/11 attacks, violence against Arab Americans and Arab- and Muslim-owned buildings, and answers to such rumors as those alleging that the Reuters footage of celebrating Palestinians after the 9/11 attacks was old film from a different event. (It wasn’t, say the editors, but why didn’t American media also show the one million Palestinian school children who observed a minute of silence in support and sympathy for American victims?)

Misrepresentation of Barak's offer at Camp David as "generous" and "unprecedented"

Nigel Parry
20 March 2002

Many unwitting journalists and politicians continue to reproduce the baseless Israeli claim that former Prime Minister Ehud Barak was “generous” in an “unprecedented” way in the offer he made to the Palestinians at Camp David.

CPJ urges Israel to investigate shooting death of journalist, other attacks

Committee to Protect Journalists
19 March 2002

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) today called on Israel to provide a full accounting of a series of incidents in which a journalist was killed and several others were shot at during the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF) large-scale military operation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip last week.

Sick and tired

Arjan El Fassed
Ram,
Palestine
17 March 2002

Just tell me the number of crimes at which I can lay my pen to rest and demand the world to end the impunity.

Grave concern for the safety of Palestinian civilians - a call for the universal application of international law

Nigel Parry
St Paul,
Minnesota
15 March 2002

The following remarks were made on behalf of The Electronic Intifada at a press conference organised by the Minnesota branch of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, in Minneapolis on 15 March 2002.

Follow up: Gradstein's unethical payments make public broadcasting headlines -- NPR's Drake avoids making Gradstein accountable

Ali Abunimah and
Nigel Parry
14 March 2002

Following our publication of the special report, “NPR’s Linda Gradstein takes cash payments from pro-Israeli groups” (19 February 2002), and several follow-up reports, NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin responded to our concerns on 25 February 2002 and the March 11th issue of the Current, a public broadcasting trade publication ran an in-depth story on the revelations, NPR Mideast correspondent broke ban on speaker fees, by Mike Janssen. Meanwhile, Gradstein’s unchecked bias continues to surface. EI’s Ali Abunimah and Nigel Parry report.

CPJ mourns Italian photographer killed in West Bank clashes; Egyptian press vehicle shot at

Committee to Protect Journalists
14 March 2002

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) is shocked and saddened by the death of Italian free-lance photographer Raffaele Ciriello, who was killed this morning by Israeli gunfire in the West Bank city of Ramallah, according to press reports and eyewitness testimony.

Waging war on the camps, once again

Andrea Becker
Ramallah,
Palestine
13 March 2002

6:30a.m, and the refugee camp is alive with noises. There is electricity this morning and the appliances whir; the television is loud with news of lives no longer, re-occupations of Ramallah and al-Bireh.

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