Role of the Media
EI's Role of the Media section offers news about how the media, the two parties in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, and governments interrelate. The section notes groundbreaking reports that illuminate realities in the conflict, reports instances of pressure on the media, and offers overviews of the mechanisms of media control. Quality submissions are welcomed.
Video: Netanyahu brags he deceived US to destroy Oslo accords
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 20 July 2010
A 10-minute video segment originally broadcast in Hebrew on Israel's Channel 10 threatens to gravely embarrass not only Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu but also the US administration of Barack Obama. Jonathan Cook reports. [MORE]
Independent journalists dismantling Israel's hold on media narrative
Abraham Greenhouse, Nora Barrows-Friedman, The Electronic Intifada, 15 June 2010
Within hours of the Gaza-bound aid flotilla being intercepted and besieged in international waters by Israeli commandos, news of the bloody attack had spread across the globe. Rage, condemnation and calls for an international investigation followed. Meanwhile, Israel's campaign to spin the attack, distort the facts and quell an outraged public was already in full swing. Abraham Greenhouse and Nora Barrows-Friedman analyze for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Did banned media report foretell of Gaza war crimes?
Jonathan Cook, The Electronic Intifada, 15 April 2010
An Arab member of the Israeli parliament is demanding that a newspaper be allowed to publish an investigative report that was suppressed days before Israel attacked Gaza in winter 2008. The investigation by Uri Blau, who has been in hiding since December to avoid arrest, concerned Israeli preparations for the impending assault on Gaza, known as Operation Cast Lead. Jonathan Cook reports. [MORE]
Israeli media first to report Haitian organ theft rumor
Jillian C. York, The Electronic Intifada, 19 February 2010
There is considerable speculation following the removal of Lady Jenny Tonge on 14 February from her position as health critic for the Liberal Democratic Party in the UK's House of Lords following her statement calling for an inquiry into claims that the Israeli military stole organs during its relief work in Haiti last month. Jillian York reports for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
New York Times fails to disclose Jerusalem bureau chief's conflict of interest
Report, The Electronic Intifada, 25 January 2010
The New York Times has all but confirmed to The Electronic Intifada (EI) that the son of its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner was recently inducted into the Israeli army. Over the weekend, EI received a tip suggesting this had been the case and wrote to Bronner to ask him to confirm or deny the information and to seek his opinion on whether, if true, he thought it would be a conflict of interest. [MORE]
British TV documentary tackles taboo of Israel's lobby
Diane Langford, The Electronic Intifada, 19 November 2009
For the first time a mainstream British television program has tackled the Zionist lobby head-on. Channel 4's Dispatches, broadcast on 16 November, promised to hold the pro-Israel lobby up to rigorous public scrutiny and it succeeded. Presented by Peter Oborne, former political editor of the right-wing weekly The Spectator, Dispatches revealed the cozy relationship between Britain's pro-Israel lobby and both the Conservative and Labour parties as well as its attempts to stifle criticism of Israel in the press. Diane Langford reports for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
Report: Israeli intelligence illegally profiling travelers in South Africa
Sayed Dhansay, The Electronic Intifada, 16 October 2009
Last month South Africa's premier investigative journalism TV show, Carte Blanche, aired an investigation of allegations that security personnel from Israel's national carrier, El Al Airlines, were acting dubiously at Johannesburg's airport. Carte Blanche conducted an experiment, sending an undercover reporter into the airport, expecting him to be targeted simply because he was Muslim. Sayed Dhansay comments for The Electronic Intifada. [MORE]
CAMERA's broken lens revisited
Shervan Sardar, The Electronic Intifada, 24 August 2009
A February 2008 report by the pro-Israel media watchdog CAMERA claimed the existence of an overwhelming pro-Arab, anti-Israel agenda in The Washington Post, The New York Times, and The Los Angeles Times in "guest op-eds" over a 19-month period. The Electronic Intifada found CAMER ignored articles that undermined its claims. CAMERA responded with another report reaffirming most of its findings, but The Electronic Intifada finds that once again, CAMERA's analysis fails to pass the credibility test. [MORE]
Lies and Israel's war crimes
Ben White, The Electronic Intifada, 28 July 2009
This month marked six months since the "official" conclusion to Israel's assault on the Gaza Strip, "Operation Cast Lead." Electronic Intifada contributor Ben White looks at some of the strategies of Israel's campaign of disinformation, confusion, and lies -- and the reality of its war crimes in the Gaza Strip. [MORE]
Music, The New York Times and the politics of a Palestinian state
Belén Fernández, The Electronic Intifada, 14 July 2009
"Just as it is apparently impossible for the President of the United States to visit the Middle East without a corresponding visit to Buchenwald, it is apparently also impossible to have a news article on Palestinian humanity without a corresponding reminder that Arabs do not understand the Holocaust." So writes Belén Fernández in a comment on how The New York Times covers the work of Palestinian musicians. [MORE]
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