Articles

Spat upon, threatened, we stood for Palestine

Ali Abunimah
Chicago
6 May 2001

“ ‘Arafat is filthy swine, there is no Palestine,’ and ‘Thank you for killing my cousins in Israel,’ were some of the more polite slogans shouted at Al-Awda activist Benjamin Doherty and me as we protested silently at the annual “Walk With Israel” on Chicago’s lakefront,” writes Ali Abunimah after a not so pleasant walk in Chicago’s beautiful lakefront park.

CNN refers to the West Bank and Gaza Strip as part of Israel

Ali Abunimah and
Nigel Parry
2 May 2001

Following our April 12th Action Item #11, CNN yet again portrayed the Israeli occupation as a Palestinian point of view, in a April 26th report titled, “Israel celebrates independence, Palestinians mourn deaths”: “But the Palestinians blame Israel for the violence, saying they employ heavy-handed methods to control Palestinian protesters — and that the presence of Israeli troops in the West Bank and Gaza amounts to an occupation of Palestinian territory.”

The Electronic Intifada on KPFK Pacifica

Don Bustany,
Nigel Parry and
Laurie King
1 May 2001

The following transcript is of a 2 May 2001 interview with two of The Electronic Intifada’s founders, Nigel Parry and Laurie King-Irani, on Don Bustany’s “Middle East In Focus” programme, which can be heard on Wednesdays at 2 p.m. PST on KPFK Radio in Los Angeles.

Lack of sustained media message costs Palestinians international public support

Owen Clegg
24 April 2001

Despite a clear-cut case of massive human rights violations and the weight of international law on their side, Palestinians are losing the crucial war for international opinion, many political watchers and media analysts believe.

Palestinians "attack", Israel "retaliates"

Nigel Parry and
Laurie King
18 April 2001

A common formulation in reporting on the conflict holds that even the most severe Israeli attacks are acts of “retaliation”, regardless of what preceded the events.

When journalists refuse to tell the truth about Israel

Robert Fisk
17 April 2001

‘Fear of being slandered as “anti-Semites” means we are abetting terrible deeds in the Middle East’.

CNN's Jerrold Kessel decides that the existence of the Israeli military occupation is merely 'a point of view'

Ali Abunimah and
Nigel Parry
12 April 2001

Any suggestion that the 34-year-old Israeli military occupation is a Palestinian “opinion”, rather than an internationally established fact, represents the extreme end of irresponsible and inexact international media reporting. CNN’s Jerrol Kessel goes there.

The "Peace Process" vs. the Military Occupation

Nigel Parry and
Laurie King
12 April 2001

Most media still present events in Palestine in the context of an ongoing, struggling, or dying “Peace Process” a phrase that since the signing of the Oslo accords has all but replaced pre-Oslo references to Israel’s military occupation of the Gaza Strip and West Bank (including East Jerusalem).

Palestinian parents blamed for their children's deaths during street clashes

Nigel Parry,
Laurie King and
Ali Abunimah
12 April 2001

The notion that Palestinian parents send their children to die is yet the latest reincarnation of a well-known scapegoating strategy known as ‘blaming the victim.’

Gilo settlement described as a "community", "neigbourhood", or a "suburb of Jerusalem"

Nigel Parry
11 April 2001

Israel has long been trying to get journalists to normalise their annexation of East Jerusalem and occupation of Palestinian land. Semantics is one of the battlegrounds.

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