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The New York Times gets an 'F' for geography

Michael F. Brown 18 December 2002


“Every six months or so a report comes out detailing the woeful state of geographical knowledge held by many Americans. Usually people chuckle and wonder how it is that so many Americans think California is on the East Coast. After all, every rightly educated American knows it’s on the Left Coast.” Mike Brown writes about what happens when the New York Times sits in on a Middle East geography test. 

Weekly report on human rights violations

Palestinian Center for Human Rights 15 December 2002


Israeli occupying forces have perpetrated more war crimes and human rights violations against Palestinian civilians, including willful and extra-judicial killings, shelling of, and incursion into Palestinian areas as well as agricultural land leveling. This week, 20 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 3 women and 2 children, were killed by Israeli forces. 

ITV's The Web Review gives EI site "10/10"!

Jason Bradbury 16 December 2002


UK channel ITV’s World Wide Web review series, The Web Review, reviewed the Electronic Intifada and gave it a rating of 10/10, describing our site as “compelling [and] intelligent”, and concluding that EI is “a democratic bombshell, a fascinating look between and behind the lines.” The presenters asserted, “this collection of news clippings, video and audio streams presents some intelligent and forceful arguments about how information from the Palestinian side of the divide is filtered.” 

When truth is funnier than fiction: The resistance of humour

Ghassan Abdullah 18 December 2002

It’s never really as bad as it looks on TV. It could always of course be much worse. The Intifada, or uprising, against Israeli military occupation with its curfews, siege, closures and general strangulation of Palestinian society, is also being done with humour. Here are a few quips picked up from people in their daily life under occupation, compiled by Ghassan Abdullah for BNN. 

EI letter about Palestine's Oscars' exclusion in <I>The Toronto Star</I>

Ali Abunimah and Benjamin J Doherty 14 December 2002

In a letter in
EI’s Ali Abunimah and Benjamin Doherty expose the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences excuse for keeping Palestine out of the Oscars as nonsense. The Academy said that entering countries must be members of the United Nations. But, the record shows that the Oscars accept entries from regions not recognized by the UN all the time. 

NPR allows dubious, sensational claims to stand

Ali Abunimah 13 December 2002

NPR loudly reported highly dubious, anonymous claims that Palestinian “extremists” linked to Al-Qaida had obtained a deadly nerve agent from Iraq. When Pentagon sources poured cold water on the charges, which came from a Washington Post journalist who had previously concealed news at the government’s request, NPR fell silent. EI’s Ali Abunimah takes NPR to task. 

False Washington Times report convinces Canada to ban Hizbullah

Nigel Parry 13 December 2002


On Wednesday 11th December 2002, the social arm of Lebanese resistance group Hizbullah was one of three organisations to be added to Canada’s official list of “terrorist entities”. Canadian newspapers and politicians cited, as the ultimate deciding factor for Canada’s policy change towards Hizbullah, a statement attributed to its leader Hassan Nasrallah last month in which he allegedly urged Palestinians to undertake suicide bombings outside of Israel/Palestine, in locations around the world. But it has now emerged that the source of the remarks is suspect, meaning that an organisation widely recognised for its humanitarian contributions in desperate areas of the Middle East has been cut off from a considerable number of donors on the basis of a false account. EI’s Nigel Parry reports.