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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. Read more about Media-watchers occupy both sides of Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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. Read more about The massacring of the truth
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. Read more about Israeli newspaper prints attack on EI, refuses to publish response
29 August 2002
He frequently appears on television programs and writes op-ed pieces on the Middle East. He lobbies media organizations when he thinks their coverage has been unfair. And from his Hyde Park home, he helps maintain www.electronicintifada.net, a Web site that attempts to tell the story of the Middle East from a perspective he and others say is overlooked. Read more about Arab advocate still speaks up -- and often
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. Read more about Intifada on the Internet: Exposing Media Biases Toward Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
22 August 2001
On 22 August 2001, The Electronic Intifada’s Ali Abunimah appeared on The David Corn Show, a programme on the Pacifica Network’s Los Angeles affiliate, KPFK, to debate the situation in the Middle East with Malcolm Hoenlein, executive vice president of the Congress of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations. Read more about Debate between Ali Abunimah and Malcolm Hoenlein on KPFK
26 December 2001
Ali Abunimah is an Arab-American activist who created his own news Web site to conduct an “electronic intifada” against a foe he calls the “Israeli media war machine.” Read more about Seeking an Arab view of news
5 May 2002
Israel’s military action in the Palestinian territories has disrupted the region’s computer networks. Many Palestinian websites run from the region have been knocked offline for weeks, including most government sites. Read more about Palestinian websites knocked offline
2 June 2002
The media are caught in the crossfire over their Mideast coverage in a way that makes the days of the thoughtful letter or the angry call seem quaint. Read more about Web sites potent weapon in shaping Middle East story
10 March 2002
Partisans on both sides of the conflict in the Middle East see bias in NPR’s coverage, but a recent wave of complaints included a less debatable ethical charge: Israel-based correspondent Linda Gradstein has accepted honoraria from pro-Israeli groups. Read more about NPR Mideast correspondent broke ban on speaker fees