Articles

The 'new' closure of Jerusalem

Nigel Parry
8 April 2001

In fact, the city of Jerusalem and Israel itself have been closed to 99 percent of the 3 million Palestinians since March 1993.

The 'conflict between equals'

Nigel Parry,
Laurie King and
Ali Abunimah
4 April 2001

Much of the media portrays the current conflict between the Palestinians and the Israeli occupying army as an encounter or contest between equals, ignoring the massive imbalance of military, economic, political and diplomatic power between the Palestinian and Israeli sides.

What is it that Palestinians commemorate on Land Day?

Arjan El Fassed
30 March 2001

On 30 March 1976, thousands of people belonging to the Palestinian minority in Israel gathered to protest Israeli government plans to expropriate 60,000 dunams of Arab-owned land in the Galilee. In the resulting confrontations with Israeli police, six Palestinians were killed, hundreds wounded, and hundreds jailed. In the intervening years, those events have become consecrated in the Palestinian memory as Land Day.

Unqualified use of the term "Arab Israeli" instead of "Palestinian"

Arjan El Fassed
30 March 2001

In various news reports, the Palestinian minority in Israel is selectively termed as “Arab Israelis” or “Israeli Arabs.” Palestinians living in what became known as Israel call themselves “Palestinians”, sometimes further specifying that they are “Palestinians of 48” and thus are an integral part of the Palestinian people.

Mandela's First Memo to Thomas Friedman

Arjan El Fassed
29 March 2001

Responding to a column written by Thomas Friedman as a mock memo in the name of George Bush to Yasser Arafat, EI’s Arjan El Fassed, in the ‘mock memo’ style that Friedman himself likes to use, imagines what Nelson Mandela would have responded.

The under-reporting of Israel's repression of Palestinian education

Arjan El Fassed
24 March 2001

Although the media does report on the Israeli imposed internal closures of the West Bank towns, the effects of this closure on Palestinian education are under-reported.

Exposing myths

Carolien Roelants
12 March 2001

The Intifada, the Palestinian uprising against Israel, rages also on the Internet. There, a new activist group, The Electronic Intifada. The website was launched on February 28th to push the Palestinian view to the front in what the founders term ‘the war in the media.’

The Electronic Intifada

Laurie King
7 March 2001

‘The Revolution will not be televised’ - but it will be web-based. That, at least, is the hope of four activists who joined forces last November to create an unprecedented new web site, The Electronic Intifada.

Press freedom violations in Israel and occupied Palestinian areas (28 September 2000 to 28 February 2001)

International Press Institute
6 March 2001

In December, the International Press Institute (IPI) highlighted in a detailed report the number of injuries and other press freedom violations against journalists and media professionals in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Areas. The report documented all known such cases since the start of the Palestinian uprising on 28 September 2000. IPI has now updated and revised its report, adding cases of press freedom violations since the beginning of the crisis until 28 February 2001.

Widespread settler violence unreported

Nigel Parry
2 March 2001

For two-and-a-half days, since it began on the night of Saturday 7 October 2000, large groups of settlers were rampaging through Palestinian villages and towns in the West Bank and 1948 areas/inside the Green Line, attacking Palestinians and their property. In many cases they were protected and even aided by the Israeli military.

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