From the Editors

Highlighting important stories on and off The Electronic Intifada.

EI's Ali Abunimah to appear on C-SPAN

The Electronic Intifada
14 November 2002

EI’s Ali Abunimah was a recent panelist on the C-Span discussion “Close Up”. The discussion covered Palestine-Israel, the expected war against Iraq, and the US “war on terrorism.”

Looking Behind Ha'aretz's Liberal Image

Ran HaCohen
30 September 2002

Ran HaCohen’s 30 September 2002 column on AntiWar.com looks behind the veneer of Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz’s reputation as a liberal publication at some surprising realities.

Arjan El Fassed: 'If you cannot influence the media, become the media'

Laurens Lammers
27 September 2002

Dutch online-magazine De Internetjournalist profiles EI’s Arjan El Fassed and the Electronic Intifada. This interview originally appeared in Dutch.

Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on Australian TV's "Lateline"

Lateline
13 October 2000

Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on Australian televisions “Lateline” programme, just two weeks into the second Palestini5{ dismisses the violence as “a lot of attention being paid to very few deaths,” even as Abunimah points out that over one hundred Palestinians had already been killed and three thousand injured by the Israeli army, mostly unarmed demonstrators.

Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes on BBC Radio Five Live

Up All Night
29 September 2002

Ali Abunimah debates Daniel Pipes about the second anniversary of the Palestinian Intifada on BBC Radio Five Live. Pipes threatens to hang up if Abunimah dares mention his name. Read the Transcript.

Ali Abunimah discusses Radio Sawa on the BBC World Service

Outlook
24 September 2002

EI’s Ali Abunimah and Joan Mauer, communications director of Radio Sawa, discuss the new US government sponsored effort to win the hearts and minds of the Arab world on the BBC World Service’s outlook. Read the transcript.

Media-watchers occupy both sides of Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Joann Loviglio
22 September 2002

The Electronic Intifada and Palestine Media Watch are two of the groups that keep a vigilant eye on media coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, writes AP’s Joann Loviglio.

The massacring of the truth

Amnon Rubinstein
11 September 2002

This article by former Israeli cabinet minister Amnon Rubinstein, appearing in the usually respectable Israeli Ha’aretz newspaper, contained a hysterical attack on the Electronic Intifada made possible only by badly distorting the contents of a recent letter we wrote to The Economist magazine.

Israeli newspaper prints attack on EI, refuses to publish response

Ali Abunimah and
Nigel Parry
17 September 2002

The widely respected Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz has published an hysterical attack on The Electronic Intifada by a former Israeli cabinet minister, and is now refusing to publish a response.

Intifada on the Internet: Exposing Media Biases Toward Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Nizar Wattad
30 April 2002

In October 2000, a group of dedicated pro-Palestinian activists from around the world combined their efforts to wage an electronic intifada—a digital ‘shaking off’ of the biases present in media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Four months later, Ali Abunimah, Arjan El Fassed, Laurie King-Irani and Nigel Parry officially launched the Electronic Intifada, a Web-based movement geared toward deconstructing the distraction tactics of ‘the Israeli media war machine’ and highlighting the damaging effects those tactics have on accurate reporting. Nizar Wattad reports in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs.

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